Word: municheers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five weeks after the Munich Agreement, Prime Minister Chamberlain had told the House of Commons that Britain would have to recognize that in southeastern Europe "Germany must occupy the predominating position." But since then the heads of three European States have made significant visits to London. Scarcely had George II, King of the Hellenes, settled down for a brief stay in the British Capital before his ex-brother-in-law, Carol II of Rumania, arrived. Carol went on to Germany, but he had not been home a week before he began shooting Rumanian Nazis. And the elaborate gold dinner service...
Pared down on three sides by territorial slicings of Germany. Hungary and Poland after the Munich Deal, what is left of Czechoslovakia was last week split in two. Germany demanded and got a corridor 40 miles long, 197 feet wide through the slim middle of the whittled little nation. Along this strip Adolf Hitler will build one of his Autobahnen, which will run from Breslau in German Silesia south to Vienna and thus provide a direct and short motor connection between the eastern part of Germany and the recently-acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed...
Marriage Revealed. Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, leader of Great Britain's black-shirted Fascists; and The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28, whom Adolf Hitler once called "the ideal Nordic woman"; both for the second time; in Munich, a year ago. Because the best man, Reichsführer Hitler, had the records impounded, the marriage was kept secret. The bride's younger sister Unity Valkyrie has been booed and stoned in England, once was arrested in Czechoslovakia because of her open admiration for Hitler...
...substance somewhere or other or sometime or other in his life has to fulfill a mission." But because Herta is too intellectual, and "woman's task is to be beautiful and to bring children into the world," they separate. Michael writes his play, is rebuffed by Munich intellectuals, becomes a miner in the Ruhr. Then the book really gets creepy. A mysterious Russian, Iwan, appears, tempts Michael, is defeated ("I am stronger than he. I take him by the throat. I dash him to the ground"), and after making some political observations, Michael dies, murmuring "worker...
Author of the best-selling novel Europa, Robert Briffault was born in London 62 years ago, practiced medicine in New Zealand, was twice decorated during the War. When the Munich Pact was signed, he returned his decorations to the King. Under its grand title and despite isolated passages of startling invective, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire seems petty, and its criticism is so undiscriminating that readers may fear Briffault would not like the English even if they were good...