Word: runcimanned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next step should have been for Adolf Hitler to begin throwing his weight about. Instead he kept quiet. He, like the rest of Europe, appeared to be dazzled by the possibility that Lord Runciman might solve the Czechoslovak Question without bloodshed or heroics...
...announcing that Lord Runciman will go to Prague this week-"not to arbitrate but to advise and mediate"-Britain's Prime Minister, grizzled Neville Chamberlain, set up peace machinery as original as the Non-intervention Committee France and Britain set up two years ago to keep the Spanish Civil War from becoming a general conflict. In entangling Britain in a dangerous European quarrel, the Prime Minister tried to preserve British isolation by explaining in the House of Commons that Lord Runciman will go to Prague with no official status, merely as a bifurcated animal representing no one but himself...
...House of Lords was informed by Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax that, after Lord Runciman was told what is expected of him, he exclaimed: "I quite understand. You are setting me adrift in a small boat in mid-Atlantic...
Prague Tricked? Adrift in the small boat with Lord Runciman will be a delegation of top-rank British Foreign Office experts and officials serving as advisers to this one-man power. Much as other states make unofficial war, Britain had launched an unofficial drive for peace...
...André Géraud) bitterly deplored the creation of a situation in which both Prague and Paris will have to follow the lead of London. For most commentators agreed that British public opinion will never support the use of arms to aid Czechoslovakia if the recommendations of Lord Runciman are against...