Word: runcimanned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week that policy was made public. Having promised the Jews a "homeland" and the Arabs an independent State in Palestine, the British in a White Paper as bland as Lord Runciman's apologia for the Czecho-Slovakia debacle, chose to interpret this to mean that the Jews should have about as much "homeland" as they have now achieved in Palestine, but that they should not be allowed to expand to a point of depriving the Arabs of their majority control in politics and land ownership. Jews fumed and charged that once more Great Britain had expediently bowed...
After the British Cabinet last July had secretly decided to offer Czecho-Slovakia on the altar of Appeasement, Viscount Runciman was sent to Prague as an "unofficial mediator" to arrange a "peaceful settlement" to the Sudeten German problem. Lord Runciman was eminently successful. Last week, on his way home from a world-circling vacation trip, he arrived in Montreal, Quebec, was questioned by newshawks on his availability as a mediator in the current Danzig dispute. Cracked light-hearted Lord Runciman: "You wouldn't want me to do that all over again...
Doubts. Britain has made pledges before. Straightforward as this seemed, even Britons had doubts of its force and full intent. In a Foreign Office press conference next day one correspondent asked an ironic question: "Will the Government send Lord Runciman soon to Poland?" The London Times which often reflects the views of the British Government, found a multitude of reservations in the Chamberlain pledge: "The new obligation which this country has assumed does not bind Britain to defend every inch of the present frontiers of Poland. The key word in the declaration is not integrity but independence. The independence...
...story that a group of rich, pro-Fascist Conservatives were meeting and regularly plotting at Cliveden, country estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Among the reported Cliveden coups were the political downfall of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, the trip of Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to Berlin, the sending of Lord Runciman to Czechoslovakia, engaging Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh to "spy" on Soviet and German air power, the Munich Pact...
...reward, the Nazi Government "permitted her to take a lease" on the sumptuous Schloss Leopoldskron, near Salzburg, taken over from Jewish Max Reinhardt after Anschluss. During the CzechoSlovak Crisis she did yeoman service for the Nazi campaign. When Mr. Chamberlain sent Lord Runciman to gather impressions of conditions in Czecho-Slovakia, Princess Stephanie hurried to the Sudetenland castle of Prince Max Hohenlohe where the British "mediator" was entertained. In London during crucial weeks of the Czech Crisis, she was able to arrange the secret meetings between Man Friday Wiedemann and top-ranking Britons. A frequent hostess to Captain Wiedemann...