Peace in Our Time

Dr. Michael Mousseau is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida. He joined UCF in 2013 after fifteen years teaching at Koç

Neville Chamberlain Arriving at Heston Airport

Front: Chamberlain descending an aircraft. Back: A handwritten note reading, Chamberlain arriving from Munich after signing Munich Pact with Hitler, and Culver Pictures, Inc. stamps and barcodes. Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Arriving at Heston airport following the Munich Confrence, Chamberlain declares proudly that he has secured peace in our time. Hitler had demanded that Czechoslovakia cede to Germany the Sudetenland territories of Bohemia and Moravia, regions inhabited by ethinic Germans. Chamberlain\u27s appeasement policy in essence led to the dismemberment of the independent democratic state of Czechoslovakia.https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1039/thumbnail.jp

The futures of power

Some may recall, or have read about, those heady days when history allegedly ended, as the Berlin Wall collapsed(3). When the wall came down it seemed to may observers as if, with the end of communism at least in Europe the only threat to existing democratic political power was vanquished. Liberal, plural democracy, the open society and open organizations seemed to stretch as a vista into a future full of promise offering peace in our time, with all its assumed dividends, and the triumph neither of the will nor the state but of decent, ordinary democracy. Surely the chance to build a better world of organizations was imminent

Student Life (1934 Oct 9)

Table of Contents: Regional Conference of W.I.L. to Meet at Hollins President Roosevelt to Arrive in Roanoke Edith Wriggins Speaks in Recent Convocation Appointments Made on Cargoes Staff New Books Are Added to College Library Honor Students for 1933-1934 Announced Dr. W.L. Lingle Gives Opening Address Miss Matty\u27s Birthday Celebrated Here To-Day Apprentice Theatre to Present Plays Student Forum Miss Matty Peace In Our Time Senior Solo Singing A Bit of Etiquette In Memoriam Cotillion Club Elects Nineteen Members Green Pastures Thrills Roanoke Campus Crumbs I.R.C. Holds First Meeting of the Year Freshmen Entertain with Short Stunts Society Alumnae Newshttps://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/newspapers/1330/thumbnail.jp

'A Secret Weapon': Noel Coward's politics and anti-intellectualism in ThisThis HappyHappy BreedBreed and PeacePeace inin OurOur TimeTime

This thesis examines the functions of intellectual characters in Noel Coward's This Happy Breed ( 1939) and Peace in Our Time (1947) in tenns of the playwright's own political views as well as his anti-intellectualism. In these plays, the intellectual characters are associated with certain political parties imported into Britain. Namely Communism in the fonner and Nazism in the latter, who are ousted from the texts in the end figuratively and literally respectively. The various unpublished manuscripts that I discovered in the Noel Coward Collection at the Cadbury Research Library and Noel Coward Archive by Alan Brodie Representation in London demonstrate that Coward strongly opposed the exclusive connection between the intellectual and power in politics as well as in the literary realm in order to achieve democracy in Britain. By marginalising the intellectual characters in the texts, Coward defined his own political position of anti-intellectualism, which stands in contrast to the views of his contemporary Left-wing intellectuals in the literary world such as the Bloomsbury group. This thesis, conducting these close reading of the texts, aims to reconsider and re-evaluate Noel Coward's plays in the political contexts and to provide new interpretations of these works

Germans against Hitler

"The sun shines, and Hitler is master of this city. The sun shines, and dozens of my friends are in prison, possibly dead. Thousands of people like Frl. Schroeder are acclimatizing themselves, like an animal which changes its coat for the winter. After all, whatever government is in power, they are doomed to live in this town." These are among the final entries in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Diaries. Hitler has legally assumed power and Isherwood, who "can't altogether believe that any of this has really happened," will leave the city he has come to love and return to England. The Nazi Movement that began a decade ago in seedy Bavarian beer halls has now conquered its very antithesis, Prussia. It seems unstoppable. The people, as always, will adapt or perish