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...liberty. As provocative as his verónicas are his attempts to get Ecuador to become the first South American nation to declare war on the Axis. As fierce as a toro is his anger at the Peru-Ecuador border settlement, which the Brothers Plaza describe as an "American Munich...
...Honest Tony" Eden and earnest Eduard Benes were the pallbearers, and there were two requiems: one by Eden in the House of Commons, one by Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk via radio to his countrymen. Thus was decent burial finally provided for a smelly old corpse, the Munich Agreement...
...since 1938." It was most welcome because neither the Atlantic Charter nor last June's British-Russian Agreement* have cooled the jingoistic fires over which Europe's exiled governments in London hash and rehash post-war boundary lines. The Czech hash has always included Sudetenland, which the Munich Agreement bestowed on Germany...
...radio requiem suave-spoken Masaryk stressed the point and jubilated: "So . . . everything that was not clear is finished. . . . The pre-Munich Republic will take its seat at the peace conference...
Where Now? The ersatz faith which fostered Munich was replaced in Britain last week by other concepts and credos, equally fervent. Of the people who fostered Munich, some were dead, some repentant, some changed hardly a whit. Viscount Halifax, Chamberlain's now-repentant Foreign Secretary at Munich-time, rushed cheerfully from Birmingham (where he told an audience: "Once the shipping problem has been mastered, the Allied Nations can hold out very solid grounds for confidence") to Cabinet meetings in London, then to holiday on his rolling moors in Yorkshire. Droopy-lidded Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's political valet...