Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shocked by a prenatal symptom of the police state: lines of trucks packed with truncheon-bearing police, ready to charge if unionists clashed with rowdy Nazi paraders. His mother, Nancy Astor, and her Cliveden Set didn't want to be beastly to the Germans during the Munich era, but David Astor was already firmly anti-Nazi...
...short life too much to bear down often with sustained intensity on any writing, artistic or critical. Poverty and illness and ambition drove his poetic progenitor John Keats; but early success, doting friends and romantic passions distracted Brooke. He was almost at his best in his letters. From a Munich boardinghouse he described a "monstrous, tired-faced, screeching, pouchy creature, of infinite age and horror, who screams opposite me at dinner and talks with great crags of food projecting from her mouth." Musing on Niagara Falls, Poet Brooke wrote: "The river, with its multitudinous waves and its single current, likens...
Churchill, who had been right about one Munich, did not want another. Said he: "The only hope of peace is to be strong, to act with other great freedom-loving nations, and to make it plain to the aggressor, while time remains, that we should bring the world against him, and defend ourselves and our cause by every means should he strike the felon's blow. I cannot guarantee that even a firm and resolute course will ward off the dangers . . . but I am sure that such a course is not merely the best but the only chance...
...Munich, a denazification court gave 84-year-old Composer Richard Strauss a clean bill of health: all he had done while the Nazis were in power was stick to his unpolitical music...
...announced yesterday that its representatives in Berlin, Munich, Nurnberg, and Hoechst, Germany and in Paris, Vienna, Stockholm, London, and Oxford will seek rooms for any American tourist who writes or calls in person...