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...made public (see p. 9), and Mr. Hoover felt obliged to preface his broadside with a non-partisan salute to Mr. Roosevelt's efforts. Next day, completing Jonah Hoover's bad political luck, his thunder was muffled in obscure columns of the press as the Munich settlement exploded on every front page in the land...
Amenities such as these among the Four Chiefs smoothed the way for their agreement to dictate to Czechoslovakia what they hoped would be a final settlement. Its terms at first struck correspondents in Munich as complete capitulation to Germany, but within 24 hours fuller information modified these conclusions...
Aristocratic Mr. Eden's aristocratic friend, Alfred Duff Cooper, who last week resigned as First Lord of the British Admiralty in "protest" at the Munich settlement, although he personally saw Neville Chamberlain off with good wishes (see p. 16), spoke up sharply. Chamberlain dealt with Hitler "in the language of sweet reasonableness," Duff Cooper told the House, in a speech interrupted by his sobbing, "whereas the mailed fist is the only language Hitler understands!" Germany would have backed down, said Mr. Duff Cooper, if Britain had sooner mobilized her fleet, which was under his command as First Lord...
...settlement of the San Joaquin Valley is a good pioneer story. Author Miller weakens it by an undramatic style and too many devices of romantic pioneer fiction, but she follows an authentic historical outline. In the first years the Sandlappers sweated blood digging irrigation ditches by hand, only to have the water disappear into underground rivers. But their bitterest struggle came when at last they had the desert blooming. This was their fight, legal and extralegal, with the El Dorado Railroad (Southern Pacific), which enticed them with a price of a few dollars an acre, held up titles until...
...during the summer is believed to have called forth the first protest and the subsequent negotiation between the union and the University. For the University Durant said that his office had been working for several years on discrepancies in wages and was glad to come to a settlement at this time...