Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year in post-War Europe was more replete with hastily arranged conferences, mobilizations and general crises than 1938. The events which culminated in the historic four-power meeting in September at Munich and which resulted in the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia so fascinated journalists, diplomatic observers, even radio announcers that from their typewriters has come a steady stream of articles, essays and books on the subject. Most of these were sketchy, designed to cash in quickly on Munich's newsworthiness...
...members of his Conservative Party (including Cabinet members) to whom Hitler was a "guardian of capitalism" and to whom any alliance with Soviet Russia was anathema. They professed to be impressed by accounts of German air superiority, stressed the purely defensive value of French fortifications, discounted Soviet military power, the French Army's will to fight. They said nothing about the well-trained Czech Army, Britain's undisputed control of the seas, the unfinished condition of Germany's defenses, German insufficiency in raw materials, German internal discontent, the German Army's revulsion at the thought...
...ethics. "It is not for an American to say that Englishmen or Frenchmen should fight and die for causes which do not seem to them vital," he writes. Chief U. S. interest in the decisions reached at Munich should be the shift in Europe's balance of power, lessening respect for international law, lack of observance of treaties, collapse of the system of collective security. All in all, says Editor Armstrong, Mr. Chamberlain might better have adopted a motto implying reciprocity rather than appeasement...
White Help. Figuring also in Führer Hitler's plans are White Russians who fled from Russia when the Bolsheviks came to power. Herr Hitler would certainly prefer to see Russians fight Russians rather than spill good Nazi blood in his Ukrainian "liberation campaign." Estimated to be 400,000 strong, the White Russians, though scattered, are numerous enough and sufficiently experienced to be of military and propaganda value. Not a few are now in Berlin, where Unter den Linden cafés have buzzed with their plottings...
...Majesty's Government desire to make it clear that they are not prepared to accept or to recognize changes of the nature indicated [closing of China's Open Door] which are brought about by force. They intend to adhere to the principles of the Nine-Power Treaty and cannot agree to unilateral modification of its terms...