Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-eight-year-old Lieut. Piotr Pirogov and his copilot, Anatoly Barsov, had been planning for a year to escape from Russia and get to the U.S. They had left their base near Lwow, formerly Poland, on a routine training flight that morning and headed for Munich in the U.S. zone of Germany. The third member of their crew, a flight sergeant, was not in on the lieutenants' plan. When they were airborne, Pirogov told the sergeant he could either come along or bail out while still over Russian territory. Since there were no parachutes in the plane...
...What Lies Ahead?" From the moment he began, Tom Dewey made it clear that the Republican Party had rid itself for keeps of the old taint of isolationism. He spoke on the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Munich Pact and he was explicit in his resolve that Munich must never come again: "We cannot buy peace with appeasement. That course has always led throughout history and always will lead to greater and greater demands on the part of the aggressor. In the end it can lead only to slavery...
...brassiest women of the Washington press corps, and she covered Germany like a rough-riding Valkyrie. She descended on Berlin via the airlift, sitting on bags of coal. She slept in Hitler's airraid bunker, interviewed General Clay, went shopping with a German hausfrau on the Kurfurstendamm. In Munich's America House, where she made a speech, Correspondent Esther Van Wagoner Tufty caused the biggest stir of all. "They thought I was Emmy Goring!" said she. "I must say I resented that. Hell, she's at least ten years older than I am." All this she reported...
Many Germans believed that even this Western concession was too much. Cried Socialist Franz Neumann: ". . . Godesberg . . . Munich ... !" The fact remained that if Russia really lifted the blockade, that would be a victory for the U.S., even if limited and far from final...
...Czechoslovakia created by Benes and his great chief, Thomas Masaryk, was by far the best of the little states. It was not good enough. Hitler accurately took its measure-and the measure of the great nations. Before Munich, Hitler had screamed: "Benes ... In that name is concentrated all that which today moves millions, which causes them to despair or fills them with a fanatical resolution. The decision now lies in his hands: Peace or War." Benes thought so, too. Later he wrote: "I had to decide whether to provoke the war or not . . ." He chose not to. Once again...