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THE CHINA
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Munich and the Dictators.
By R.
W. Seton-Watson Methuen, Pp. xii. 188. 58.
When There is No Peace. By Hamilton Fish Armstrong. Mac- millan. Pp. 236. 6s.
By J. L. HAMMOND
It is the duty of anyone who tries to follow public affairs to read these two books. Mr. Armstrong is well known to students of politics all over the world as the editor of · "Foreign Affairs," the American quarterly universally respected for the quality of its articles. Dr. Seton-Watson is. a distinguished historian with a special knowledge of Eastern Europe. As a close friend of Dr. Benes, who played as adviser and publicist an important part in the making of the State that has now been destroyed, he is not a dispassionate crític. But his well- known sympathies so far from de- tracting from the importance of his book add to it. For the Czechs, in consequence of the high-handed proceedings of the British and French Governments, were unable, the lightning movements that ended in their ruin, to put their case before the world.. Indeed those two Governments were so wanting in common fairness and courtesy that they did not publish in their documents the reply of the Czech Government to their ultimatum of September 18. The text is given
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AIRCRAFT CARRIER LAUNCHED AT BARROW. programme, was safely launched at the Naval Constructio Furness. The launching ceremony was.carried out by L derson, former Third Sea Lord. The length of the “NË built at Barrow. Photo shows the "Illustrious" after the
to the British public for the first er said to themselves that the des- partitioning their c time in these two volumes, and no truction of Czecho-Slovakia, would .tish called them in a Englishman will read it without be a benefit to Europe. (M. Bonnet a copy. The Czec acute distress. For these reasons is so inscrutable a character that it Germany said that it is specially necessary to read had better, perhaps, be left to his make some observat what a responsible and well-informed own countrymen to interpret his in- told that as the mat American and what an English tentions or his motives.) But un- he might spare hims historian who knows what happened happily it is true that if Mr. Cham- The State that was from the Czech side have to say on berlain, Lord Halifax, Lord Run- the right to call on this disastrous chapter of history. ciman, and M. Daladier had believed military aid under th The British and French Ministers that the destruction of Czecho- that France, had bi have at their service the most skill- Slovakia would be a public benefit right to expect from ed interpreters and advocates, and they would have acted precisely, as all the help that one if Dr. Seton-Watson is incorrect his they did act. They would have be- League of Nations of mistakes will not pass unnoticed and lieved Hitler when he used fraud; apart from the spe unrevealed,
yielded to him when he used force, she had assumed în
Most persons who read these They would have cold-shouldered Runciman to Prague. books will come to a terrible con- Russia and treated Czecho-Slovakia effect of the interve clusion. In one sense it is true as a public nuisance. The amazing Britain and France' that Czecho-Slovakia has been insolence to which Czecho-Slovakia Hitler, who, in conse destroyed by one man. Hitler set was subjected in the last stages efforts, obtained wit out to destroy it and was ready in (Lord Lloyd well described it as cost precisely what pursuit of that object to employ third-degree treatment) stamps its These books wit fraud as well as force. But there character on the whole spirit of narrative of the is a sense in which Czecho-Slovakia these proceedings. One single in- some important que has not been destroyed by one man cident may be given from Mr. Arms- one day to be answer but by half a dozen; for we must trong's sober narrative, describing Hitler's envoy, Capt add to the Fuehrer the Prime Minis- the last hour when Mr. Chamberlain say to Lord Halifaxı ters of England and France, the and M. Daladier had accepted the what terms did Lor Foreign Secretaries of those nations, brutal terms Hitler imposed: "The Prague the sugges and Lord Runciman. Nobody thinks Czech representatives at Munich Britain should se that Mr. Chamberlain or Lord Hali- had been refused a hearing. When How can Lord Runc fax or Lord Runciman or M. Daladi- the ink was dry on the document discrepancy betwee
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