Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental fact must be recognized that since 1931 when the League of Nations system first began to totter, a race for strategic advantage has been under way, with Italy, Germany, and Japan in the van, and the democracies, including the United States, in full and ignominious retreat. Munich was merely the climax. In such a world as has resulted, force is the nominating factor, and it is important that the superior force be in the right hands...
...this awakening is the result of the Munich pact and all it symbolizes, as doubtless to a large extent it is, then Munich was a blessing in disguise. But there is still one more hurdle for the President and the people to face: the traditionally isolationist United States Senate. During the next few months the issue will be clearly and dramatically posed through the new rearmament demands and proposed revision of the neutrality laws. Even while the President was speaking, destructive opposition was forming; one can almost hear the Congressional hand-organs beginning to grind out "entanglement," "George Washington...
...modestly: "The result will be a great encouragement to Mr. Chamberlain." The Prime Minister needed encouragement last week, for a few days before the election the British Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup Poll) revealed that while 60% of British opinion was behind the Chamberlain program of appeasement shortly after Munich, that majority last week had fallen...
...Prime Minister, 75-year-old Lloyd George, one of the best showmen in the House of Commons, had the M.P.s rolling in the aisles when he twitted the 69-year-old Prime Minister about his age and lack of courage. Of Mr. Chamberlain and French Premier Daladier at Munich, Lloyd George declared: "They both ran away as hard as they could from their obligations, but our Prime Minister, in spite of his more advanced years, kept well ahead. What a magnificent old sprinter he is!" Conservative Party whips got busy and the "no confidence" motion was beaten...
Dawn Patrol was rushed to completion last autumn during the Munich crisis. Some of its cast, including Actors Niven, Basil Rathbone and Michael Brooke, are reserve officers who expected to be called to the colors before they finished. Most of the air shots in Dawn Patrol were lifted intact from the 1930 edition. Good shot: Courtney, whose minute squadron on the Marne front has been losing a man a day for weeks, reacting with an absent-minded nod, while he reads a newspaper, to the news that an old friend has been killed...