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...swapping of a few parallels, and the concession of a few months, they gained immeasurable prestige for their unexpected "generosity." In Asia the balance of power was swinging to the Reds; in Europe the Communist dove of peace flew high. Inevitably, the settlement was compared with the "peace" at Munich in 1938. This peace was different; it was a surrender after defeat in battle. But in a sense, it was worse, for it was negotiated with full knowledge of the folly of Munich...
...Meany said: "The policy of massive retaliation, which was put forward in the early spring as the policy of the Eisenhower Administration, has vanished into thin air. Let us hope that it will not be replaced by a policy of massive appeasement on a world scale that would make Munich of 16 years ago pale into insignificance...
...your anti-British periodical you repeatedly gibe at British policy during the Munich crisis. Will you please state, clearly and succinctly, what the U.S. government did during that crisis to lessen the danger of war? I suggest that the answer be given, clearly and succinctly, in one word: nothing...
Radical Socialist Edouard Daladier, Foreign Minister at the time of Munich and now a man Molotov praises, struck first. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, he cried, had "failed to get anywhere at all." Bidault, just off the train from Geneva and even more sleepy-lidded than usual, confessed that he could not report "promise of certain success" at Geneva...
This year, more than a century later, Catlin's triumph was again underlined by a touring exhibition of his work in Europe. Sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency and (and supplied by the Smithsonian Institution), it arrived in the French town of Valenciennes after being in Essen, Munich and Hamburg. As visual, visitors found Catlin's pictures just as surprising and intriguing as their great-grandfathers...