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Once more the dark round table in Munich's white marble Fiihrerhaus held four pairs of elbows - but the other two belonged to Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Once more the world waited with bated breath for news of their decision - but that decision meant far more than war or peace in the time of a septuagenarian. This week the men at the round table in Munich intended to settle Europe's destiny until times unforeseeable...
France, resigned to the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, Nice and Savoy, probably a part of Flanders and most of her colonial empire, hoped only that her people would be allowed to live as Frenchmen in the rest of their well-loved country. But suppose Hitler were generous at Munich? Munich was still Munich...
Sept. 29. Munich...
...Munich Beer Hall explosion just missed by Hitler...
Four Sons (20th Century-Fox) attempts to probe the psychology that makes fifth columns possible, by tracing the effects of Naziism on a Sudeten mother and three of her sons before & after Munich. It is not badness, but his own discipline and strength, that draws the second son (Alan Curtis) to the disciplined and brutal Nazis. It is not strength, but muddlement that makes the eldest son (Don Ameche), a loyal Czech, kill his Nazi brother. Their mother (Eugenie Leontovich) suffers, but she never quite understands what it is all about...