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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning their backs squarely on these states, whose envoys in London knew even less than reporters about what was going on, the two chiefs, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Premier Edouard Daladier, proceeded to capitulate and cooperate in efforts to redraw the map of Central Europe so that tension would be ended, Peace bulwarked. Chancellor Adolf Hitler was the chief who last week forced this decision by crude, primitive demands and threats made to Neville Chamberlain behind the soundproof walls of the Führer's study at Berchtesgaden. Premier Benito Mussolini was the unashamed and blatant chief...
...Nazi Sudeten Germans, previously cowed by Storm Troops, felt safe enough to sign up by thousands in the Sudeten Social Democratic Party. To check this trend, Sudeten Nazi No. 2 Ernst Kundt manifestoed Saturday to Nazis: "Remain within yourselves what you always were ! Keep waiting until Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister Chamberlain have completed their fateful conversations. Keep your iron nerves...
...each Sudeten district, was now declaring martial law in those where bloodshed was actual or imminent. In Germany it was said that Adolf Hitler and Konrad Henlein were finding it impossible to get through to each other over Czechoslovak telephone lines, although Viscount Runciman talked from Prague to the Prime Minister at Berchtesgaden...
Almost unnoticed, while the world watched Neville Chamberlain come home from having a dish of tea with Adolf Hitler (see p. 15), the Prime Minister's half sister-in-law Lady Chamberlain came home last week from having dishes and dishes of tea with Señora Carmen Franco and the Rightist Generalissimo. She was instantly denounced by Leftists of all shades...
...districts I visited." Retorted the Leftist spokesman of the Spanish Embassy in London: "If she is as interested in Government Spain as in Franco Spain, why didn't she include Government Spain in her tour?" Admitting that she was receiving hundreds of letters from irate Leftists, the conservative Prime Minister's sister-in-law explained unperturbed, "In our Barcelona canteen we are feeding 4,000 people every day. Our fund is expending 312 pounds ($1,500) per month on each side in Spain...