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...Soviet tactics were so familiar and had been employed so often before that they stood no chance of disrupting the achievement of London. The real question was whether all London's participants were really interested in bringing the agreement to realization. "The politicians," cautioned Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitimg, "will fish around in the soup looking for hairs, and will surely find some...
Inge Borkh, 33, who sings at the Hamburg and Munich operas, may never be compared to a movie beauty, but her big, dramatic voice and commanding presence fascinated audiences. In the gruesome role of Salome, she slunk, crouched and snarled until it almost seemed as if she were going to bite off the head of John the Baptist before it was cut off for her, but at the end, she tamed her style, let the music have its say. Her singing was as compelling as her acting, her voice easily soaring out over Strauss's heavy orchestration...
Mendès' critics seemed less perturbed by Geneva itself than by their fear that Mendes might get too much of the credit. Only Georges Bidault dared to compare Geneva to Munich; he drew only skimpy applause from his own Roman Catholic M.R.P. Party, and short shrift from Mendès. By a thundering vote, of 462 to 13, with 152 absent or abstaining (the latter mostly from Bidault's M.R.P.), the Assembly hailed "the cessation of hostilities in Indo-China, due in large measure to the decisive action of the Premier...
Sixteen years ago, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich, his furled umbrella in one hand, a piece of paper in the other, and rode through cheering crowds from Heston aerodrome to No. 10 Downing Street. To the crowd gathered before his door in Downing Street he proclaimed: "For the second time in our history a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor." King George VI welcomed him at Buckingham Palace; Britons stood in the rain cheering him as he declared, "I believe it is peace for our time...
...comparison between Munich and Geneva, so widely made last week, was also widely resented by those who argued that Eden and Mendès-France had only done what had to be done in the face of defeat on the battlefield. Asked about Munich, the U.S.'s Bedell Smith snapped: "A damned poor term. At Munich things were given away when there was no fighting. This is a war." The real test of the comparison would be whether Eden had learned a new urgency or been lured into a new complacency...