Word: municheer
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...greatest single lesson of the brutal 20th century should be the monumental error of appeasement at Munich. Neville Chamberlain, echoing comments that we hear today from very reputable corners, said the Nazi drive to overtake Czechoslovakia was a quarrel "in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing." Less than two years after the agreement, Europe was engulfed...
...drying on the Munich agreement and the British subjects were celebrating "peace in our time" in the streets of London, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to indict the leaders of his day with words that are applicable to today's generation. "Terrible words have for the time being been pronounced against the Western democracies: "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." We must never forget...
...managed after the second round of rockets to engineer a cease-fire in Sector West. But when he tried to fly into the sector on Thursday, the Croatians would not allow his helicopter to land. "Akashi has become a comic figure," says Jens Reuter of the Sudost Institute in Munich...
...from Bonn to Berlin in search of greenbacks to spend at U.S. destinations such as Disney World in Florida or ski resorts in Colorado. Latecomers found banks sold out of dollars and were advised to try again in several days. That was not good enough for determined folk in Munich, who roamed from bank to bank in the hope of laying hands on the suddenly scarce currency...
...intervention. Small wonder that when 18 governments pumped $5 billion into the markets to support the dollar two weeks ago, the effort had little impact. "The central banks are powerless against the currency-market forces," asserts Gernot Nerb, director of research at the IFO Institute for Economic Research in Munich...