Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statesman Franklin Roosevelt's ambitious plan to have next month's Pan-American Conference in Lima put as much starch into Democracy as Japanese armies and Munich have put into Autocracy. Last week the State Department announced the members of the U. S. delegation to Lima, which will be headed by Secretary of State Hull...
...required for the policy of the British Government in closing our differences with Italy it surely can be found in the action of Signor Mussolini when, at my request, he used his influence with Herr Hitler in order to give time for the discussion which led up to the Munich agreement. By that action the peace of Europe was saved...
During the Czechoslovak Crisis many Frenchmen were annoyed that Neville Chamberlain, although he flew thrice to Adolf Hitler (Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich), did not fly to Paris. Instead, French Premier Edouard Daladier flew twice to London. Last week amends were about to be made. The Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax, are to spend November 23-25 in Paris. Under the outward show of a "purely social visit," Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier will try to advance toward "general European appeasement" from the stage reached at Munich...
...Downing Street it was said that Mr. Chamberlain will not take to Paris any retinue of British Foreign Office experts. Experts of the French Foreign Office expected to be left to twirl their thumbs by M. Daladier. To a great extent Munich was the product of "personal diplomacy" conducted by the Big Four- this being European for U. S. "shirtsleeve diplomacy." Shoved into the background last week, British and French experts, many of whom are "pipe lines" to favorite correspondents, hinted that Chamberlain and Daladier would probably discuss...
Meanwhile the Premier seemed to have largely wasted in irresolution the decree powers which he might have used. The overwhelming vote of confidence in his foreign policy which he received after his return from Munich still stood, however. Meetings last week of the General Councils in all French districts ended in nearly all cases with senators, deputies and mayors voting approval of the Government's foreign and internal policies. Munich is over the French Chamber dam, but the Premier will be savagely attacked when the Chamber reconvenes for his final break at Marseille with the Communists and for what...