Word: redraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler...
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...