Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed U. S. newspaper correspondent was in Poland when the War began. Some of them had stayed in London and Paris, waiting for another Munich. Some who had thought that Poland would hold out for weeks or months were caught napping. Others had looked for a big battle on the Western Front when Polish fighting bogged down in mud that never came. One & all, they cooled their heels last week, copied official hand-outs from the Ministry of Information in London, drank pernods at the bar of the Hotel Lancaster in Paris, while youngsters who had never seen...
Onetime newspaperman (for two years Parliamentary correspondent for the Montreal Gazette), Banker MacDonnell is no amateur, no fuddy-duddy. After Munich last year he composed 36 lines of blank verse on Chamberlain. Excerpt: . . . the butt of every neutral gibe; And stupid in the eyes of arrogance. . . . He took a great, intrepid, lonely step, Biding his time amid the arctic night Of calumny and ridicule and fear, With little company...
...those who in 1917 rejected the Communist analysis of the last World War were forced later to recognize the imperialist character of that war. History has proved the complete correctness of the Communist analysis of the inevitability of a world economic depression, of the disastrous results of the Munich "peace-in-our time" policies...
...thorough analysis of the Communist position on the designs of Hitler and the Chamberlain Munich group, which the Crimon dismisses without any examination, an analysis substantiated in whole or in part by such prominent non-Marxists as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Lloyd George, is being prepared for the campus. (signed) The Executive Committee of the Harvard Young Communist League...
Imperialism? Nonsense. A cynical sacrifice of ideology to power-lust? More nonsense. Russia was protecting peace by strengthening her own hand and by exposing the "Municheers." She was protecting the liberty of Poland by forestalling an imminent Munich--since the only ultimate aim of such another debacle would be a four-way partition of Russia herself...