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Last week passed the second anniversary of Munich: Sept...
...Author Simone's chief complaints is that the French general staff did not rely on the Red Army during the Munich crisis. Forgotten by Author Simone apparently is the fact that a year before Munich the Soviet Government officially announced that it had executed its leading marshal and seven generals for high treason, presumably with the Germans. J'Accuse! may be an offensive-defense from the left against mouthing charges that the Popular Front was responsible for lowering French plane production to 38 planes a month in 1937; that after the signing of the Berlin-Moscow pact French...
William D. (for David) Bayles went to Germany in 1932. He taught English for two years at the University of Munich, then free-lanced. In a little Munich cafe he used to see a "small, nervous, threadbare man with bad teeth, greasy, dandruffy hair, a colorless wisp of a mustache, and pale blue eyes which, like his hands, were never quiet." It was Adolf Hitler...
...nursemaid and governess. There was the ex-wine salesman, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who used to be much in demand for amateur theatricals in the homes of rich and cultured Jews, because he played effete Englishmen in Oscar Wilde plays. There was Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, about whom the Munich police in 1923 made a mistake his secret police would never make. They thought he was so unimportant they did not arrest him. There was Hitler's brutal Labor Boss Robert Ley. Bayles describes his first meeting with the doctor: "Dr. Ley . . . was sitting at the head of a long...
Cole, who was present in Munich during the famous negotiations between Daladier, Chamberlain, and Hitler, commented optimistically on the possibility of a Hitler invasion...