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...about foreign affairs, had few opinions about other countries. In 1935 the FORTUNE Survey found citizens least friendly toward Germany (17.3%) and most friendly toward England (28.6%) but 51% made no distinction among foreign powers. Two years later 31% listed Germany as the country they liked least. When the Munich crisis shifted the course of European history, it shifted the course of U. S. public thought. When it was past 56.3% answered Yes when asked: "Should democratic powers now stand firm together at any cost...
...Adolf Hitler entertained at Berchtesgaden the then President of the Assembly of the League of Nations. That gentleman, the swank-loving, multimillionaire Aga Khan, was impressed. After Munich he wrote to the London Times predicting there would be no war. When the Blitzkrieg struck Flanders the Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum (rated No. 5 among the ten best-dressed women in the world) fled from a French spa, not to Britain but to Switzerland. In Geneva last week the Aga Khan was no longer able to get money transferred from his bank accounts in London, Bombay and Cairo...
...answer to all these questions still remained in,.the hands of Neville Chamberlain. Since the failure of Munich he has considered the war a personal conflict between himself and the German war lord who blighted his efforts for peace. Short of a political Putsch, which would probably cause dangerous disharmony at this time, Britain could only wait for him to change his mind...
John Francis Knott, born in Austria, brought up in Iowa, had been drawing pictures for the Dallas News for five years when in 1910, aged 32, he knocked off work and went to Munich to become a painter. Another Austrian who had once loped to study art was in Vienna at that ime; but Adolf Hitler had been advised to try some other profession. Meanwhile, Student Knott returned to Texas, went back to the News as a cartoonist...
...When Munich came, Germany had 3,300 first line planes, Britain about 1,600. Germany's monthly output of planes was reported to be 600, Britain's 300. Hence Munich, argues Kennedy, could hardly be avoided...