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Fallen Bastions: the Central

European Tragedy, by G. E. R. Gedye.

THAT SHAME”

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chronicles, Mr. Gedye has rendered

a national service.

Vienna Memory

7HY should we cry over spilt

The opening chapter, I confess, aroused a little misgiving, per- bastions"? Austria is gone; Czecho- slovakin, as a really independent haps prejudice, in my mind as to democratic State, is also gone. the soundness of its author's judg- ment. He went to Vienna as cor- What was Austria to us? And respondent of "The Times" some 13 who but warmongers ever thought years ago; and, as he says, "Right we ought to "fight for Czecho-Slo-jfrom the start, like 99 per cent. of vakia ?"

foreigners coming for the first Is not a British Minister cre- time, I fell for the charm of Vienna, for its Gemutlichkeit, its admix- dibly reported to have said, 48 ture of southern graces with the

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long ago as last spring, that our policy would be to "let Hitler eat harder Teutonic qualities I had his bellyful of Europe"? And did known in Germany.” not the Prime Minister tell re- Now I, too, went to Vienna putable American journalists-at correspondent of "The Times” Lady Astor's house last May that more than 86 years ago, and did the Czechs must accede to the Ger- not "fall for" the charm of Vienna, man demands and "frontier revi-either then or during the next 10 approaching d sion might be advisable”? Why, years. There was something un- then, bother about the way these real about the place that estrang- things were done?

onc.

In this book Mr. Gedye answers some if not all of these questions, or states facts which help us to answer them. He has written big book-big in more ways than It contains the inner story, never before published, of the last years and months of Austria, and likewise the inner story of the be- trayal of Czecho-slovakia and de- mocratic freedom by France and Great Britain last September.

Every Briton who cares for the safety and the good name of his country should read it-read it

I felt that

Hapsburg Man ed me; and only by dint of hard ven vainly to work and close observation did I the closing sce come to understand why. ̈

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with patience, not boggling at un- It was because, as I said in my lack of vision familiar details, until the essen-book, "The Hapsburg Monarchy," it fell, another tial truth sinks into his or her shortly before the war, neither security and of mind. As a fearless and indepen- "Vienna" as a centre of interna- the Czecho-slov dent eye-witness of the events he tional politics, nor the city of threatened,

Vienna itself, had

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“a soul of its own with which a|tion intact:V stranger can secretly commune.“policy" helped Both Vienna and "Vienna' are and, at last, to soulless or, at least, their 'souls' truth also Mr. G are so much in abeyance that with splendid v neither thrills the thoughtful stranger with that inward satis- faction which moves the heart." for Czechoslova cal ignoramuses

Both were the headquarters of a

Ought we, the

can ask so fool ought not to

Hapsburg dynastic estate, not of a Czechoslovakia."{

nation.

was:

So I doubted Mr. Gedye's judg- ment. Then the frankness with "Could we, co which he tells of his disillusion- a policy which ment, and of the struggles of post-gallant Czechos war Austria to become a nation, army of 1,500,00 dispelled my misgivings; while their impregns his growing perspicacity moved me and their might to admiration.

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