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...made Churchill and Eden, who 16 years ago had been the proud leaders of the fight against Munich, look alarmingly like appeasers...
...Minister himself. An Asian settlement would let Churchill out and himself in. And as architect of the settlement, Eden would enter 10 Downing Street bathed in glory. The outside world has a mistaken image of Eden. It tends to think of him as the courageous anti-appeaser of the Munich days, who resigned rather than go along with Chamberlain's policy. But the truth is that he resigned only under pressure from his Under Secretary, the present Lord Salisbury. At the time, there was growing popular opposition to appeasement policies, and resignation was an astute political move which made...
...recipients are Walter D. MacNeal '54, Calvin O. Schrag Div., and Irwin E. Lane 4G, MacNeal will study Classics at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Schrag will study Philosophy of Religion at the University of Heidelberg, and Lane will study Biology at the University of Munich...
...National Assembly-even while Dienbienphu still stood-the rush was on to call off the whole embittering war in Indo-China. A man of Munich mounted the rostrum, an older, shrunken figure of the man who in 1938 spoke for the abandonment of Czechoslovakia. "Ceasefire and armistice are in the vital interest of the French army," said Edouard Daladier, now 69. "I fear that if we await the decision of the international conference in Geneva, we shall find ourselves . . . too late, much too late...
...dishonorable surrender; they had spurned the outstretched hand of once mighty Britain; they had ordered the U.S. to get out of Asia and the Pacific. At Geneva they now poke rudely at the chest of the West and hope to find there the faint heart of a new Munich. They now demand a voice in the affairs of the Europe that, a generation ago, was sure that it ordered the affairs of China as surely as it ordered about its ricksha boys...