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Munich|ˈmjuːnɪk|
[G. München.]
The name of the capital of Bavaria used with reference to a meeting of representatives of Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy on 29 September 1938, when (by the Munich Agreement) the Sudetenland of N. Czechoslovakia was ceded to Germany; also transf. as a typical example of dishonourable appeasement. Hence Muniˈcheer, ˈMunichite, advocates of such an appeasement policy. Also ˈMunichism, such a policy. Also attrib.
1938H. Nicolson Diary 8 Oct. (1966) I. 376 Go up to Leicester. Bertie Jarvis says that I have put the women's vote against me by abusing Munich. 1939Ann. Reg. 1938 76 The Prime Minister followed with his defence of the Munich Agreement. 1939A. Huxley After Many a Summer i. viii. 106 These last months, since the Anschluss and Munich, one had found that political discussion was one of the unpleasant things it was wise to avoid. 1939L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. 36 Glory to God for Munich. 1941Amer. Speech XVI. 66/1–2 Munichism..‘the spirit of the surrender at Munich; appeasement’. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 27 June 13 They do not enter into discussions with dishonourable men..; they have always known the real futility of ‘Munichs’. 1942Sun (Baltimore) 5 Aug. 4 (heading) Writer finds people hostile to war officialdom, Commons and Municheers. 1944H. G. Wells '42 to '44 76 The misconduct of the war from Munich onward. 1950A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 88 Tony was not..unpatriotic, but he had been a great Munichite. 1955Ann. Reg. 1954 24 A further complication..was the absence of normal diplomatic relations between a number of countries... Someone had to provide a channel of communication, even at the risk of being called a ‘Municheer’. 1957R. W. Zandvoort in Wiener Beiträge LXV. 281 Munich..giving rise to the words Municheers and anti-Municheers. 1958Spectator 6 June 735/2 The pressure put upon President Benes to accept the Munich agreement. 1960C. Day Lewis Buried Day v. 97 The hallucinatory and irresponsible Munich period. 1962M. Foot Aneurin Bevan I. ix. 285 At Bridgwater, Vernon Bartlett,..won a spectacular victory in the teeth of all the ‘peace’ propaganda of the Munichites. 1967Listener 5 Oct. 422/3 There are analogies from history—another Munich, another Dunkirk [etc.]—although historians assure us that history never repeats itself. 1973K. Giles File on Death i. 7 Some of the most valuable men in this country were..Men of Munich, vulgarly so called. Now..we have little Munichs every week. |