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Died. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, 80, veteran British lawyer-statesman. Foreign Secretary under Ramsay MacDonald (1931-35), Neville Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer (1937-40), who, in his memoirs, published in 1952, stoutly defended the "essential Tightness" of the 1938 Munich pact with the Axis; in London...
...Duff Cooper turned out a brace of authoritative biographies (Talleyrand, Haig), became Secretary for War under Conservative Stanley Baldwin (1935-37), was assailed as a "disgraceful scaremonger" for urging rearmament against Hitler. Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty by Neville Chamberlain, he resigned in protest against the 1938 Munich agreement with the Axis, told his colleagues: "I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter ... I can still walk about the world with my head erect." During World War II, he served briefly as Churchill's Minister of Information (1940-41), after France...
True to the pact in its own fashion, the army soon settled the immediate Communist threat by marching shock troops into Berlin. When Adolf Hitler and his beer-hall fanatics flared up in their 1923 Putsch, the army ground it out in the Munich gutters. Later the officer corps began to think it could use Hitler to fashion a Reich more to its liking. But once the ex-corporal got to twirling the hourglass of history, the sands of power ran out fast for the corps. The day was to come when German generals would be framed, tortured and hung...
Another prominent Frenchman who feels the same way is Edouard Daladier, the old appeaser of Munich, who belongs to the moderately right-wing Radical Socialists. The French Communists used to have no epithets harsh enough for Daladier ("gravedigger" and "traitor" were among the mildest), but L'Humanité, the Communist daily, is now respectfully calling him "Monsieur Daladier." Neither Daladier nor De Gaulle has any Communist leanings; for the purposes of the Communists, it is better that they...
...boot on French soil since the duel which opposed Czar Alexander to the Emperor Napoleon. The German soldier has invaded it three times in 70 years." This line so pleased the Communists in the Assembly that, for the time being at least, they stopped calling Daladier "The Man of Munich...