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...tells how a quadrumvirate-Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.-hammered out in the heat of the Munich crisis a U. S. foreign policy in the belief that war was coming. This policy was: 1) to prevent war if possible; 2) if war proved inevitable, to use every method short of war to assure victory for the democracies; 3) to recognize in their policy that "neutrals are parties at interest in a modern war, and particularly in the post-war settlement"; 4) to gain U. S. ends, political commitments in the western hemisphere, and possibly economic...
...Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, became an unhappy wanderer. She lived in Switzerland, then Italy, almost penniless. In 1920 she entered a Carmelite convent as a novice, but did not take to a life of contemplation. She joined the Little Sisters of the Poor, gave that up, went to Munich to study medicine. In 1924 she died at Hohenburg, a broken old woman...
...spring of that year Sepp Trautwein is still just a warm-tempered Munich bourgeois living in voluntary exile: unappreciative of his excellent wife, writing a piece now & then for the exiles' paper, the Paris Gazette, working hard and slowly at his gifted, rather frigid music...
...extraordinarily prescient book called Rats in the Larder, written in 1938 -mostly before the Munich Agreement had made every European journalist a Cassandra-TIME'S Copenhagen Correspondent Joachim Joesten gave two reasons why Germany was certain to overrun Denmark early in the next war. Last week, which found Correspondent Joesten a fugitive in Sweden, his prediction and his reasons were upheld almost word for dire word. One of the reasons was strategic (see p. 19). The other was economic: Denmark is the larder of hungry Europe...
While frightened tourists headed back to the U. S., Herbert Kline headed for trouble. He had already made one documentary film in Europe-Crisis (TIME, March 20, 1939), to which critics had taken off their hats. That film was about Munich and the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. It had looked like war then, but war had not come. This time Director Kline was sure war was coming. He was even sure where it would come first-in the Polish Corridor...