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During the now well-known diplomatic negotiations that went on & on till peace finally collapsed, Viscount Halifax occupied a unique place as Foreign Secretary. Even at the time of Munich he had the sympathy and respect of such men as (appeaser) Sir John Simon and (vigorous anti-appeaser) Winston Churchill. To all of them he was a sort of civil servant of the highest order. Winston Churchill recently called him "a gentleman, a fox hunter, a friend...
After Ethiopia and Spain, after Munich and the rape of Czecho-Slovakia, after the final diplomatic defeat of letting Russia sign with Germany instead of the Allies-British diplomacy came to World War II with a minus score. But since war began British diplomacy has a wholly different record...
...international ass of yourself, Unity!" she was told at the Bayreuth Music Festival last summer by candid young Cambridge Poet Stanley Richardson, protege of the Archbishop of York. Asinine indeed had been her conduct ever since she let the Führer pick her up originally in a Munich cafe in 1934. "I want everybody to know I am a Jew-hater!" she soon wrote to the Stürmer, the notorious Nazi anti-Semitic organ, "England for the English-out with the Jews! Heil Hitler!" By last summer the Führer was visibly tired of "the English miss...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Munich Philharmonic, Siegmund von Hausegger conducting; Victor: 14 sides). Written in the years 1891-94, shortly before Austrian Composer Anton Bruckner died, his 9th symphony remained unperformed for nine years, never became popular outside Austria. But present-day concertgoers are be ginning to find its long, leisurely spans of melody well worth cocking...
...confidant of Hitler in the early Munich days of Naziism was young, smartly dressed, nervy Kurt Ludecke. In 1924 he came to the U. S. as a Nazi newspaper correspondent. When he returned to Germany nine years later, found things no longer to his liking and expressed his opinions, he was thrown into a concentration camp by Adolf. There he even thought of suicide, but escaped instead and fled to the U. S., where he proclaimed. "The old Ludecke is dead...