Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarrel between Bolivia and Paraguay over the title to the Chaco Boreal* were made in the names of the Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay and the U.S. And no one could fail to contrast the operation of Pan-American peace machinery with that recently observed in Munich...
Cantonese form the majority of Chinese living abroad and these are sure to quicken their cash contributions of millions to the Generalissimo now that Canton is at stake. White correspondents in Tokyo flashed that the Japanese would have preferred a European war to the peace of Munich, since war would have completely tied British hands in the Far East. Tokyo was watching Joseph Stalin as well as Neville Chamberlain, and when the purge of the Soviet Far East Army officers got under way recently, Japan concluded she need not keep so many troops in North China and Manchukuo facing...
...whether the Cantonese military leaders would resist Japan or waver in the allegiance which nearly all Chinese have shown to Chiang Kaishek, "The Great Unifier." His entourage last week put the blame on Neville Chamberlain, attributed the Japanese drive on Canton to collapse of British prestige at Munich and predicted that not only will the Cantonese fight but their resistance will so overextend Japan that it will cost...
Peaceful, bomb-fearing Britons have for years been notably anxious to have Europe's air fleets limited by some kind of pact. Journalistic furor in London was therefore immense last week when unconfirmed rumors began buzzing that at Munich three weeks ago fat Field Marshal Hermann Göring genially told lean Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that an air pact not only is a good idea but ought to be signed on the basis that Germany can have three planes for every British...
Czech and Slovak leaders, with the hardness and tenacity of their races, were busy last week ably playing the weak cards dealt to them at Munich. But in Prague, this unpleasant New Deal for Czechoslovakia had four anguished Britons pathetically wringing their hands...