Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared last week that all these things combined have produced a food scarcity which, if not remedied, may very well force Leftist Spain to agree to a "Munich" mediation if not outright surrender...
...Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was to Premier Edouard Daladier, but he unquestionably saw the crisis from the inside. Last week he spoke his mind at the annual Trafalgar Day Dinner of Britain's Navy League while other U. S. crisis-insiders continued to keep mum about Munich...
From Berlin arrived Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson, who sat for Britain on the Commission of Ambassadors which settled the final territorial details of the Munich peace. About the best he could say was that whereas at Godesberg the Führer demanded 12,000 square miles of Czechoslovak territory, Germany has now received a grand total of only 10,885 square miles. More heartening was word that Germany would like to cut in with Britain on the forthcoming U. S.-British trade agreement. Germany would take what U. S. and Dominions raw materials Britain could not absorb, pay the British...
When the French Chamber, directly after M. Daladier returned from Munich, voted him decree powers running until November 15, this reversal began in earnest and by last week there was plenty for Sir Eric to report...
Britain, too, was busy courting the dictator powers, to the approval of U. S. Ambassador Kennedy. It was significant that King George & Queen Elizabeth lunched the Italian Crown Princess at Buckingham Palace last week-something which would have been unthinkable before the Big Four got together at Munich...