"Appeasement" is the flavor of the week at The Times. This makes at least two news items and an editorial that have highlighted the word since Sunday. Too bad Limbaugh wasn't around to do one of his montages.
Stern Brothers is having a sale on tuxedos for those of you who want to look extra sharp at Christmas and New Years. We end with a Marshal Bluecher update.
So, between October and December, 1928, Bluecher was apparently demoted, transferred, arrested, imprisoned and then put in charge of the War Office.
Boy, that Stalin was a regular CHARACTER, wasn’t he?
Sometimes you have to make the tough decisions early. Applies to us also. But is NEVER easy, that is why adults should be in charge.
I have one of the Brownie cameras featured in the ad.
What a good interview and a well written story. The thing I notice the most is that the writer of the article is really objective. He characterizes Kennedy views by actually printing what Kennedy says. It’s not like today where you get 5 paragraphs of writers opinion and 1 line from the figure in question.
On October 21, 1938, as we have seen, Hitler had directed the Wehrmacht to be ready to carry out that liquidation [of what remained of the Czechoslovak state]. On December 17, General Keitel issued what he called a “supplement to Directive of October 21”:
With reference to the “liquidation of the Rump Czech State,” the Fuehrer has given the following orders:
The operation is to be prepared on the assumption that no resistance worth mentioning is to be expected.
To the outside world it must clearly appear that it is merely a peaceful action and not a warlike undertaking.
The action must therefore be carried out by the peacetime armed forces only, without reinforcement by mobilization . . .
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 438
I see the Kennedy PR machine was in high gear back then.