Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munich crowds, which had cheered Mussolini and then Daladier to the echo as they departed, went wild with shrieks, roars and tears of joy as Neville Chamberlain finally returned to his hotel and gave-what correspondents termed almost unprecedented for a British Prime Minister-an informal interview. Incredulous at this break, newshawks found Neville Chamberlain seated at a desk, sipping a cup of coffee and rolling a cigar between his lips with evident satisfaction. He shoved across the desk a copy of a communiqué to be issued in the names of himself and Adolf Hitler: "We regard the agreement...
...questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference and thus to contribute to the assurance of peace in Europe." In Paris, where Premier Daladier enjoyed the greatest ovation in modern French history on his return from Munich, he was severely criticized the morning afterward for not having obtained from Adolf Hitler some such two-man peace pledge as Mr. Chamberlain got. It was this document, not the four-power pact dismembering Czechoslovakia, which the British Prime Minister proudly waved when he landed at Heston Airport...
Aristocratic Mr. Eden's aristocratic friend, Alfred Duff Cooper, who last week resigned as First Lord of the British Admiralty in "protest" at the Munich settlement, although he personally saw Neville Chamberlain off with good wishes (see p. 16), spoke up sharply. Chamberlain dealt with Hitler "in the language of sweet reasonableness," Duff Cooper told the House, in a speech interrupted by his sobbing, "whereas the mailed fist is the only language Hitler understands!" Germany would have backed down, said Mr. Duff Cooper, if Britain had sooner mobilized her fleet, which was under his command as First Lord...
...indefinite duration," Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax countered to the House of Lords. "If we had won, nobody, in settling the boundaries of Czechoslovakia, would have redrawn them as they were left by the Treaty of Versailles." Lord Halifax said the reason why Russia was not invited to Munich was that, if she had been, then neither Germany nor Italy would have attended. Concluded the tall, ascetic Viscount, who has a nationwide British reputation in Church circles for spirituality and moral leadership: "I have taken no decision which, on all the facts as I knew them, was not right...
...specializing in flashes right from Prague. Nurnberg, Berlin, London and Trieste, last week scored the most impressive beat of the crisis: it relayed the text of the four-power concord from Munich 46 minutes before any other system...