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Appeasement Appeasement
Appeasement THE IDEA OF APPEASEMENT BRITISH INTERWAR DIPLOMACY APPEASEMENT SINCE WORLD WAR II BIBLIOGRAPHY Appeasement is a foreign policy strategy of making concessions to an adversary in order to avoid direct military conflict. As a foreign policy strategy it is rarely advocated today,... Read more
Georges Bernanos Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos , 1888-1948, French novelist and polemicist. Profoundly Catholic, Bernanos attacked modern materialism and advocated a moral and ethical order based on the teachings of the Church. His novels The Star of Satan (1926, tr. 1940) and The Diary of a Country Priest (1936, tr. 1937)... Read more
Fushun Fushun
Fushun, China 1. Liaoning: established as a city in 1937 with a meaning reminiscent of a Ming dynasty (1368–1644) policy towards the remnants of the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) which was to console, comfort, or appease the people living within China's borders and subdue the... Read more
sacrifice sacrifice
sacrifice [Lat. sacrificare =to make holy], a type of religious offering, or gift to a superior or supreme being, in which the offering is consecrated through its destruction. The Nature of Sacrifice Sacrifices may be performed on a regular basis, according to established patterns of daily,... Read more
Gideon Gideon
Gideon , or Jerubbaal , in the Bible, a 12th-century Israelite warrior of the tribe of Mannasseh, and one of the greater judges of Israel. The Book of Judges relates that Gideon was a strong opponent of the Baal cult. He defeated the Midianite oppressors and appeased the rival Ephraimites, thus... Read more
Andromeda (mythology) Andromeda (mythology)
Andromeda , in Greek mythology, princess of Ethiopia, daughter of King Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, and Cassiopeia. According to most legends Cassiopeia angered Poseidon by saying that Andromeda (or possibly Cassiopeia herself) was more beautiful than the nereids. Poseidon sent a sea monster to prey... Read more
Harold Sidney Harmsworth 1st Viscount Rothermere Harold Sidney Harmsworth 1st Viscount Rothermere
Harold Sidney Harmsworth Rothermere, 1st Viscount , 1868-1940, English publisher. He was the financial wizard of the publishing firm headed by his brother Alfred, Viscount Northcliffe . In 1915 he founded the Sunday Pictorial and after his brother's death in 1922 gained control of the vast... Read more
Neville Chamberlain Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain (Arthur Neville Chamberlain), 1869-1940, British statesman; son of Joseph Chamberlain and half brother of Sir Austen Chamberlain . The first half of his career was spent in business and, after 1911, in the city government of Birmingham, of which he became lord mayor in 1915.... Read more
St-John Perse St-John Perse
St.-John Perse pseud. of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, 1887-1975, French poet and diplomat, b. West Indies. Léger, an opponent of appeasement of the Nazis, was enormously influential in France's foreign office and became known as one of Europe's foremost diplomats. His... Read more
Cracow Cracow
Cracow, Australia, Poland Poland: locally Kraków and named after a Polish knight, Krak or Krakus, who built a castle on a hill overlooking the River Vistula. According to a popular legend, Cracow was afflicted by a dragon which demanded a virgin every day to appease its appetite. Other knights... Read more

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Europe, 1936
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post ...one of Europe's most shameful chapters of history...socialists, communists, church activists, Jews, Gypsies...people who view the appeasement of Hitler in the 1930...against Saddam when his record is much worse than that...to Vichy led through Appeasement: one wonder's where...

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