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There is an extraordinary fact about English democracy-namely, that at almost any given time some English leader turns out to be a perfect symbol of his people. At the time of Edward VIII's abdication, Stanley Baldwin was the typical Englishman. At the time of the Munich crisis, Neville Chamberlain was pathetically typical. But as of the fourth week of September 1940, Winston Churchill was the essence of his land. The three men are as dissimilar as fog, rain and hail, which are all water. But the country they ruled has changed. This England is different...
While Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, aristocratic friend of Adolf Hitler, still lay so deathly ill somewhere in England that physicians dared not extract from her neck the bullet she mysteriously acquired in Munich last year, her father, Lord Redesdale, turned over his 30-room town house to London's County Council for the use of slum dwellers made homeless by Nazi bombs...
When "the apple blossom of Bewdley" made way for "the hardware of Birmingham," Neville Chamberlain, the era of grand blunders had begun. High point, of course, was Munich. "Cato" does not believe that Chamberlain had to back down at Munich. Said the Prime Minister to somebody who questioned Hitler's promises at Munich: "Ah, but this time he promised...
...handling foreign problems, he cried: "Was that an extraordinary demonstration of human knowledge . . . when he telephoned Hitler and Mussolini and urged them to sell Czecho-Slovakia down the river?" Aides hastened to explain. Mr. Willkie had "misspoken," had meant to say that Mr. Roosevelt had urged a settlement at Munich and the Munich pact "agreed to sell Czecho-Slovakia down the river...
...night last week the Iron Guard launched all over Rumania bloody but ineffective revolts. These were crushed by the Rumanian Army as easily as the German Army crushed the original Munich Beer-Hall Putsch. Last week the King might cower in his great creamy palace on Calea Victoriei while the mob screamed and the Iron Guard fired shots in the air, but the rioting never got beyond Army control. It was the Army's redheaded General Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu who suddenly emerged on top of the pile at Bucharest...