Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they read the Süddeutsche Zeitung one morning last week, Munich's 3,400 Jews felt fresh vitriol in their old wounds. A letter to the editor, signed with the pseudonym "Adolf Bleibtreu" (Stay True to Adolf), screamed at the Jews: "Go ahead and go to America, even though the people there have no use for you either. They have had enough of you bloodsuckers. Several of the Amis [slang for Americans] have already told me they forgive us for everything except one thing: that we did not gas all the Jews, for many are now enjoying life...
...thousand Jews, mostly D.P.s from nearby camps, set out for the Süddeutsche's offices. Munich police nervously phoned U.S. Military Government, were told that since the demonstration had no permit, the police could go ahead and) break it up. Cops formed a line in the path of the crowd, but the Jews marched right through it. Two mounted police squads bore down on the demonstrators, who fought back with stones, bricks and clubs. Shots cracked; three Jews fell, wounded by bullets. Enraged, the D.P.s overturned and burned a police truck, injured 26 policemen with bricks. Two companies...
...Oriental Munich." This was the end of the tragic China road-but had not much of it been paved with shiny, good American intentions? Acheson argued vigorously that the U.S. could not have done more: "It is obvious that the American people would not have sanctioned ... a colossal commitment of our armies in 1945 or later . . . The ominous result . . . was beyond the control of the Government of the United States . . . Nothing that this country did or could have done within the reasonable limits of its capabilities could have changed that result; nothing that was left undone by this country...
...fact that it sank $2 billion into a situation it had long regarded as hopeless. From Congress, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge snapped: "Apparently the Administration would rather lose a continent than lose a little face." House Minority Leader Joe Martin called the white paper an "Oriental Munich." Senator Arthur Vandenberg, more temperate, nailed as "tragic mistakes" the State Department's "impractical insistence" on coalition with the Communists, and the Yalta agreement, negotiated, behind China's back, which opened the gates of Manchuria to Soviet armies. The Yalta deal was dismissed by the State Department with shallow...
...help him realize it. Eagerly, he went back to Paris. This time he had 350,000 francs a month expense money from the Nazis. He used it to subsidize pro-German writers, to make himself the intimate acquaintance of powerful French politicians and industrialists. He paved the way for Munich and the failure of French arms...