7/30/2023 0 Comments No umbrellas allowed story![]() Ted Miller, what happened after Neville Chamberlain's association with the umbrella?ĮDWARD MILLER: Well, wherever he traveled the opposition party in Britain protested his appeasement policy by displaying umbrellas. Edward Miller is a professor at Northeastern University Global, who has studied the political history of the umbrella. ![]() Chamberlain typically carried an umbrella. Chamberlain turned the word appeasement into a pejorative and he did similar damage to his trademark. SIEGEL: Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement came undone the following year when Germany invaded Poland. And here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN: This morning, I had another talk with the German Chancellor Herr Hitler. He was Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who went to Munich to negotiate with and to appease Adolf Hitler. In 1938, a politician turned the umbrella into a demonized accessory. This is not the first time the umbrella has been packed with political symbolism. SIEGEL: Well, now Kacey Wong is calling on artists come up with designs for the so-called umbrella revolution. And it looks kind of like a moving rainbows and forming some kind of shield. ![]() KACEY WONG: All of these citizens are using umbrellas to shield themselves against the pepper gas by the policeman. ![]() Here's how Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong describes what he's seen. And when faced with police trying to disperse them, the umbrellas become something different. The people demonstrating in the streets carry umbrellas to help shade them from the hot sun. Umbrellas have become a symbol of the Hong Kong protests. ![]()
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