[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Turns out there is more non-Czech news after all. I didn’t identify the page this is from but I think it is from the middle of the front section. As this is the Sunday paper I posted some letters to the editor and then a story from News of the Week in Review news magazine, with an accompanying photo and a couple political cartoons. In the article somebody named Harold Callender explains how things work in the inner Nazi circle. He thinks he has it all figured out. He doesn’t.

My favorite among the letters to the editor is the one where the writer explains with mathematical precision why there are too many people in the U.S. and there is not enough food to go around with the surplus population.

[nw_arizona_granny]

An excellent thread, thank you for putting it together.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping, history thread, 1938.

[Velveeta]

Very interesting thread, thank you.

[BroJoeK]

Note the photo above labeled as being Hitler with Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Now, compare that to this photo of (right to left): Hitler, von Ribbentrop and Molotov. Are they the same von Ribbentrop?

I don't think so.

[BroJoeK]

"But Hitler, who is a curious mixture of timidity and rashness, who has a hard time making up his mind, but acts quickly when he as reached a decision, has yet to speak. His admirers in Germany and abroad always maintain that the hates war. Europe soon will know."

Indeed.
Czechoslovakia and Munich are extremely important, because they mark the moment in time when British policy changed from appeasement and accomodation to confrontation and threats of war.

I'm still reading Buchanan's book: The Unnecessary War

Much as I strongly disagree on his main points, it's a provocative review of the period, and I do recommend it.