Word: signers
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Died. Edouard Daladier, 86, thrice Premier of France in the years from 1933 to 1940, and last surviving signer of the infamous Munich Agreement; of kidney disease; in Paris. After signing the agreement in 1938 with Chamberlain, Mussolini and Hitler, Daladier rationalized: "Should 15 million Europeans have been killed in order to oblige 3,000,000 Sudetens who wished to be German to remain in Czechoslovakia?" One year later, he came to the realization that, as he put it, "Hitler does not negotiate with nations which have submitted to him. He destroys them." By then it was too late. Daladier...
...Moines Register, made a request to State Department Deputy Undersecretary William B. Macomber Jr. for the names of the 250 department employees who had presented Rogers with a petition critical of the U.S. position in Cambodia. Rogers had been unhappy about the petition, but he had promised that no signer would be penalized. Rogers called Mollenhoff on the telephone: "To begin with, when you have a request of this kind, don't ever go to my subordinates without my knowledge. Ask me. As for the list...
...Gregory F. Wilson '73, another signer, added. "If, by the Fall of our senior year, we're still being told it's a problem, then I think the report is just bureaueratie bull...
...Philadelphia's first case of misdirected energy, notes the students' lawyer. Last year, a city agency tore down the historic home of Declaration of Independence Signer Dr. Benjamin Rush when they were supposed to raze a building a mile away...