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...tone of cold condescension often froze into icy contempt. His was the old, impenetrably murky defense about the double game. Why had he supported Munich? "Because we were not ready." Why had he accepted the Foreign Affairs portfolio in Pétain's Cabinet? "I intended . . . to retain my sympathies for the Allies and to help them secretly...
Haven't we all learned from letting Hitler march into the Ruhr, from Munich, from many another failure that the best way to get into a big war is to go too far in trying to avoid a smaller...
...running into each other all over seething Europe. They make love, part, meet again and swap Miss Hellman's acid-etched lines while Jews are being slugged on Berlin's streets (1928), while fascist bombs are crashing on Madrid (1936), while Paris diplomats are cooking up the Munich deal...
Ever since Munich Senator Austin had been a valiant anti-isolationist. He had risked political extinction and the taunts of many a Republican colleague by fighting for a compulsory military training bill in 1940. When other Senators argued that Lend-Lease would surely lead the U.S. to war, Warren Austin replied: "There are many things worse than war. A world enslaved by Hitler is much worse than war; it is worse than death. And a country whose boys will not go out and fight to save Christianity and the principles of freedom-well, you won't find such boys...
Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...