Word: munichs
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Backbone Added. In 1937 Home became Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary. It was he who handed the Prime Minister Hitler's message setting up the Munich meeting in 1938, and Home accompanied his boss to the ill-fated conference. The Home family motto is True to the End, and Home still defends Chamberlain's at tempt to make a deal with Hitler. "Chamberlain," he says, "hated Hitler and Fascism, but he felt that Europe in general and Britain in particular were in even greater danger from Communism." In wartime, Major Lord Home was invalided...
...have earned him a slightly uneasy reputation as a gifted intellectual in a party that looks askance at "brilliant" men. Nor have many older Tories-including Harold Macmillan-ever forgotten that, as a junior minister in Neville Chamberlain's government, Butler was a loyal and eloquent champion of Munich...
...more than $18.5 million in debts. Industrialist Hugo Stinnes Jr., 66, a freewheeling and individualistic magnate who in only ten years has built a diversified $100 million empire in machinery, ships, electronics, plastics, oil, and filling stations, has been forced to sell off some of his choicest holdings to Munich Banker Rudolf Münemann. At week's end Stinnes was brought into a crowded Bremen courtroom to answer a $4.5 million suit brought by a German mines association, which is trying to recover special compensations that the association claims were wrongly paid four years...
...mandate" by the Pope to supervise the debates. One member of the quartet-Gregory Peter Agagianian -is a Curia moderate who favors a measure of church renewal. The other three are among the most vocal "progressive" members of the council-Belgium's Leo Josef Suenens, Julius Dopfner of Munich and Giacomo Ler-caro of Bologna...
Kelen's eye was so sure that he often picked men out of a crowd before history did. In 1921, from a swarm of boisterous brown-shirted men in Munich, he sketched one whose face was all fascinating conflict. "Contrasts of weakness and strength were dramatic," Kelen wrote. "The fragile centerpiece of the upper jaw was flanked by massive cheekbones and a baboon brow ridge, and was married to a sledgehammer lower jaw . . . timidity grafted to courage, sensitiveness to violence, and an abstract mind to muddleheaded mysticism." Kelen's subject: Rudolf Hess. Other notable Kelen portraits: » John...