Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also Englad can quit debating about Jutland, for it and perhaps Trafalgar and Blenheim were lost at Munich...
...Lord Mayor of London, kindly Sir Harry Twyford, whose instant reaction to Munich was to start a charitable subscription for refugees from the Sudetenland, arrived in Prague beaming with the news that his British fund already had almost $200,000 in hand. Sir Harry was shortly told by Jewish, Communist and Socialist leaders among the Sudeten refugees that money was "almost no use" in the dire emergency they faced. Within 48 hours after a Sudeten refugee arrived in what remained of Czechoslovakia last week, he could count on being flung back into Germany...
...modernist Führerhaus ("Leader's House") in which the Munich Conference was held (TIME, Oct. 10), Adolf Hitler last week received the new Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Dr. Frantisek Chvalkovsky, who officially assured the Führer that "Czechoslovakia will assume a loyal attitude toward Germany...
...Chvalkovsky knew that in a nearby Munich hotel was waiting former Hungarian Premier Dr. Koloman Daranyi on a mission from Budapest to ask the Chancellor to "advise" Czechoslovakia to yield 8,000 square miles to Hungary-enough territory to pinch off the eastern end of Czechoslovakia and give Hungary & Poland a common frontier. The Hungarians had been offered 2,000 square miles which they indignantly rejected last week and Hungarian Regent Horthy promptly mobilized approximately 500,000 troops with the slogan "for Peace...
After his speech all Paris buzzed with the possibility that if the Munich agreement of three weeks ago is to be followed up with an international conference, the initiative will probably come from Brussels rather than from Washington, whence it was first expected...