Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said afterward that the lengthy speech of Neville Chamberlain seemed to many of them to be trending toward a declaration of war, then suddenly the Prime Minister began to tell how he had sent a personal letter to Il Duce urging him to contact the Führer. This Mussolini did. "In response," said Mr. Chamberlain, "Herr Hitler has agreed to postpone mobilization for twenty-four hours. Whatever views the honorable members have had about Signor Mussolini in the past, I believe every one will welcome his gesture of being willing to work with us for peace in Europe...
...going to quibble about a village!" was one of Adolf Hitler's cracks. Doodles by Benito Mussolini at the Conference consisted of scratching short parallel lines, making large capital letters at random. Premier Daladier said afterward that he had dissuaded the Führer from certain demands touching Bratislava. Added the Frenchman: "If there had been any question threatening the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia, I would have resolutely refused to consider negotiating further." Herr Hitler said later that M. Daladier is "Ein ganzer Kerl," which Nazi aides translated as "a real...
...determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference and thus to contribute to the assurance of peace in Europe." In Paris, where Premier Daladier enjoyed the greatest ovation in modern French history on his return from Munich, he was severely criticized the morning afterward for not having obtained from Adolf Hitler some such two-man peace pledge as Mr. Chamberlain got. It was this document, not the four-power pact dismembering Czechoslovakia, which the British Prime Minister proudly waved when he landed at Heston Airport, and at which monster British crowds went berserk with relief...
Secret documents are always published after a major war, years afterward as a general thing. But just before the peace of last week (see p. 75), His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...
...Lowell shows the utmost respect and he has statistics to back up his premise that marks are a very accurate criterion of success after college. Life is one great competition, he implies, and he who can organize his forces best at an examination at college will do the same afterward. This ignores the difference in the amount of time each student spends studying, for as long as grades in exams tend to vary according to the amount memorized and hence the time spent, it is the hard worker, not the man with initiative, who will rank best. Yet the grind...