Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Myth of Munich...
...your review of the fourth volume of the History of the Times in your issue of May 19, you refer to "Britain's ally, Czechoslovakia." The myth that Britain was the ally of Czechoslovakia at the time of Munich has long been fostered in the United States, and it is regrettable that it should gain new currency in your own authoritative columns. Though some of us thought at the time of Munich that it was in Britain's interest to fight in defence of Czechoslovakia's freedom, our country had no more moral or legal obligation...
...tune. Georgian Arnall lashed out at the companies for their insistence that the WSB benefits would add $12 a ton to production costs. Steel could have a price boost under the Capehart Amendment of $3 a ton, he declared, but no more. "I'm not going to any Munich ... If the price of peace is surrender and a steel price increase, we're not going to have peace . . ." The companies struck back with full-page newspaper ads, and denounced Arnall for using his federal office as "a vehicle for anti-industry propaganda...
...days as a house painter, Adolf Hitler had an amateur's passion for water colors and oils. As a youth he peddled his postcardlike views of Vienna, Munich and romantic ruins from door to door, sold some for roughly a dollar a daub...
Last week in Munich, Painter Dix's stubbornness was rewarded by a big retrospective show in honor of his 60th birthday. While the Nazis and World War II had not stopped his painting, they had radically changed its style. Under "permanent observation" by the Nazis, Dix dropped his brutal social criticism and took to noncommittal expressionist landscapes filled with bright colors and bold patterns. He found life on Lake Constance "idyllic, probably too idyllic...