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...Munich: Kennedy v. Churchill...
...your June 9 Letters Column, Randolph S. Churchill says TIME was wrong in referring to Czechoslovakia as "Britain's ally" and denounces the "holier than thou" attitude adopted by some Americans towards the English in regard to Munich, and states that England had no more moral or legal obligation to defend Czechoslovakia than had the U.S. Mr. Churchill implies that the respective positions of Great Britain and the U.S. towards Czechoslovakia were...
...political involvement in Europe in 1938 . . . President Roosevelt never sent congratulations to Mussolini for arranging the Munich Conference, as alleged by Randolph Churchill . . . The President's telegram to Mussolini on Sept. 27 was a final appeal asking Mussolini to intervene with Hitler...
...Hitler ordered him sent to the concentration camp at Dachau. When the cardinal appeared for his journey, dressed in full regalia, his SS guards hesitated to take him through the streets of Munich, where he was universally respected. The order was rescinded and the Nazis never again openly tested their strength against him. For the next ten years he led the Catholic Church's resistance to Hitlerism, speaking out against it where most of his fellow priests (and most Protestant clergymen) were hesitant or fearful. As early as 1933 he prophesied from his pulpit: "A state based on right...
Died. Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, 83, Archbishop of Munich and Freising and Germany's leading Roman Catholic prelate, who vigorously defended his church against the encroachments of both Naziism and Communism; in Munich (see RELIGION...