Word: munich
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Said a minor diplomat, more expressive of the general mood: "I'm not scared, I'm depressed, damned depressed. You see this is all so much like 1938 and Munich, with one difference. Now we know what Munich meant...
...quiet, rambling country house near Munich, 76-year-old Major General Professor Dr. Karl Ernst Nikolas Haushofer, Germany's apostle of geopolitics, last week took poison. His wife took poison also, then hanged herself. His epitaph had already been written - by his son, Albrecht, whom Old Haushofer had denounced to the Gestapo for taking part in the July '44 bomb plot against the Führer. Wrote Albrecht shortly before he was executed last year...
...Churchill," said the London Daily Worker last week, "has returned to his anti-Communist vomit." What Churchill had returned to was his Munich-era assertion that appeasement will not buy peace. The question had a new urgency in March of 1946, as spring girdled the earth with the possibility of military action and the probability of fresh diplomatic crises...
...Hermann Göring's turn first. Luftwaffe Generals Karl Bodenschatz and Erhard Milch took the stand. With eyes on their former chief, who excitedly prompted them from the dock, they claimed that Göring: 1) had worked for peace at Munich and after; 2) had been in disgrace with Hitler after Allied air attacks became too effective; 3) had not known about what was going on in concentration camps; 4) was "at all times benevolent to all needy...
Just how wrong, Murrow was only too glad to admit. In his calm, precise voice he recalled Munich, and Chamberlain's return, and ". . . Mr. Winston Churchill sitting there below the gangway, like the conscience of Britain...