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...massive experiment conducted by Adolf Butenandt, 56, who was co-winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (for isolating the male sex hormone, androsterone), a research team at Munich's Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry imported 1,000,000 silkworm cocoons from Italy and Japan, opened them up with razor blades, separated the pupae of 310,000 females from the males. What followed, in the words of one researcher, was "a mass slaughter, and not for the fainthearted." Each tiny pupa was disemboweled, the scent glands carefully cut out. Male moths served as lab assistants: when they were...
...males will come flocking," said a Munich researcher. "Females, of course, will continue to lay their eggs, but they will be unfertilized. The main advantage over DDT is that no resistant strains are likely to emerge. Whoever heard of a male animal becoming immune...
...Times story made headlines and talk the world over among those who assume (erroneously) that the Times is the unofficial mouthpiece of British governments, as it had been, to its subsequent shame, in the days of Munich. To make matters worse, the Lloyd story had a certain plausibility. Once hailed as one of the Tory Party's coming stars ("a young man who never puts a foot wrong"), plump, pedestrian Selwyn Lloyd, 54, was all but ruined politically by being Foreign Secretary at the time of the Suez invasion, and by his disingenuous attempts to justify Suez afterward...
...Sunday Times, 62-year-old Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, veteran (37 years) career diplomat and sometime (1953-57) Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign Office, began publication of excerpts from his forthcoming book, The Inner Circle. The first: an eyewitness account of the momentous meeting of the European powers at Munich in September 1938. Kirkpatrick was then first secretary of the British embassy in Berlin, and delegated to help Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain deal with Hitler...
Gathering in Munich to sign away the life of Czechoslovakia were "the Italians, clearly terrified of being landed by Hitler into a European war; the French, including [Premier] Daladier, resolved to reach agreement at any cost," and "so on edge that from time to time they gave the impression that Czechoslovakia was to be blamed for having brought all this trouble upon us. In this atmosphere Hitler had little difficulty getting...