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After the British Cabinet last July had secretly decided to offer Czecho-Slovakia on the altar of Appeasement, Viscount Runciman was sent to Prague as an "unofficial mediator" to arrange a "peaceful settlement" to the Sudeten German problem. Lord Runciman was eminently successful. Last week, on his way home from a world-circling vacation trip, he arrived in Montreal, Quebec, was questioned by newshawks on his availability as a mediator in the current Danzig dispute. Cracked light-hearted Lord Runciman: "You wouldn't want me to do that all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Encores | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

SHANGHAI. Friday--Police aided by U.S. Marines and British in infantrymen today began a house-to-house search of the Angic-American area of the International Settlement to round up suspected Chinese Nationalist terrorists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. S. Policing in Shanghai | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

...Hope For Settlement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pickets Adopt Unique Tactics in Taxi Strike; Use Phone to Urge Cab Boycott | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

...strike, which only recently was shifted to the supervision of the Division of Transport Workers of the C.I.O., will probably reach a settlement within the next few days according to both Union and Company officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pickets Adopt Unique Tactics in Taxi Strike; Use Phone to Urge Cab Boycott | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

...self-governing administrations for local affairs; the three provinces will remain united by a common throne and a central Government which retains ultimate control of finances, defense, foreign relations. Creation of provincial diets, because of constitutional limitations, must wait until King Peter comes of age. It was a nice settlement; big question mark was whether provincial autonomy might weaken the country to the extent of jeopardizing national autonomy. The Hungarians are just as anxious to grab the Croats, for instance, as the Germans are to grab the Hungarians (see p.18...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: After Czecho-Slovakia | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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