“Symbolized,” I say, “by the umbrella that Neville Chamberlain carried back from Munich, after Chamberlain claimed to have brought ‘peace for our time’ by letting Hitler swallow up half of Czechoslovakia, giving Hitler the impetus to launch World War II. The umbrella became the symbol of ...
When Adolf Hitler took control of Germany, one of his most pressing policies was undoing the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler wanted to restore Germany to its previous position as a world power, and reoccupy the territories and areas that had been reestablished after World War I....
not a virtue’…..It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function.It is precisely for matters of this kind that the historian is entitled to rely on what have been called the‘auxiliary
On foreign policy, Cain did back aid to Greece and Turkey and supported the Marshall Plan while opposing efforts to cut the program. However, he would not be in favor of Point IV aid to poor nations and would support foreign aid cuts. Cain stood opposed to the US taking in generous numb...
Neville Chamberlain, whose country was not prepared for a war with Germany, thought he could mitigate conflict by allowing Adolf Hitler's Germany to occupy a German-speaking part of democratic Czechoslovakia on the basis of the Versailles principle of self- determination of peoples. But five ...
A British historian has already issued an urgent warning about history repeating itself, and has also likened the current situation to Hitler and Mussolini’s “land-grabbing” of the Sudetenland territory in September 1938. Professor Anthony Glees i...
be arrested, imprisoned or deprived of their freedom unless they are convicted according to the law of the land; merchants should be allowed to move about freely; there should be the same weights and measures throughout the country; traditional rights and privileges should be given to the towns...
Today was pretty much a win. I did not have any urgent work to do, and because it rained all damn day I did not feel obligated to work on our new deck. I almost worked on it tonight, but F that I wanted to watch the Red Sox, give Mom and Dad a call, and hang out for a ...