CHAPTER SIX: QUITE SIMPLY, HE TOLD LIES!
Yes, HAROLD, Czedchoslovakia. Let me quote from the book the value of that small republic.
"Czechosolovakia was the only democracy in Eastern Europe. It was also the region's most highly industrialized country, with one of the world's greatest armament works. If Germany crushed Czechoslovakia, it would control Czech munitions, industrial capacity and natural resources.....it would also mean the encirclement of Poland on three sides and wouth threaten Hungary and oil-rich Romania."
Certainly Chamberlain knew that, even if he had never flown there before! Hitler knew it, too, and was going to get it! He needed it!
Leo Amery knew it too and in a letter to the TIMES, said that "our best hope of peace now lies in telling Germany that if she touches Czechosolovakia we are in it, too."
What did he think might happen if Britain told Hitler that? Peace?
Isn't Leo Amery an interesting fellow, not one of the young men, he had attended school with Churchill and had a competitive relationship with him often, colliding with Churchill over Indian self-government. However, as others before him, he was hampered by his reputation as a dull, droning speaker, who did not have the ease of a well-turned phrase.
The first question in the heading asks that very question. Is it possible to rise to the heights of political power without being a good orator?
JONATHAN, DEB, what of your Canadian prime ministers? The only one I remember reading about is Trudeau? Sometime ago? And the fact, also, that I spent a wonderful Christmas once at your Chateau-Frontenac in Quebec. Oh, what luxuty, what scenery, how delightful and I rode my only funicular there. Memories, they grow very cold and sometime I can't believe them.
AND, WEND!! What of your Govenor-generals? I apologize if I am not correct! CAROLYN?
We need to know more about our international friends. We, some of us, are too narrow-minded and that does not mean we are not interested.
Others will disagre with me, but I think Eisenhower, Johnson, Carler, Nixon, both Bushes, were all poor public speakers. It would have been easier to name the good ones!