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...rewarded by command of the party's Brown House headquarters at Munich. His brother, Albert, became Hitler's personal aide. Now, with the threads of Nazi command in his hands, he worked over the lists-1,800 names long-of those to be killed in the 1934 purge. In 1938 he checked off the generals to be ousted...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton: "The great amount of debt we bring out of the war is indeed a strange reward for all we in this island did and suffered." Ernest Bevin frankly compared the U.S. to "a money lender." Raged Conservative Robert Boothby: "This is our economic Munich." Laborite Norman Smith chimed in that the U.S. was treating Britain as a defeated enemy forced to accept the victor's terms...
Plan Green also provided for an "incident" to provoke German intervention. One idea: to kill Germany's minister to Prague and blame it on the Czechs. The timely intervention of Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier at Munich saved Minister Dr. Ernst Eisenlohr's life...
...practical, patient Czechoslovaks have undergone occupation of one kind or another ever since Munich. Last week they gladly heard that the end was near. Mild-mannered, thin-faced Premier Zdenek Fierlinger announced that both Russia and the U.S. had agreed to withdraw their soldiers. In Washington the State Department said that both armies would leave...
Born in Boston in 1871, Rand graduated from Harvard in 1894 and got his Master's degree the next year. After four years of study in two different theological schools, Rand went abroad and got his Ph.D. at Munich in 1900. He came to Harvard the following year, having previously taught for three years at the University of Chicago. He became a full professor of Latin here...