Transcription: Left page   17/3/39.  St. Patrick's Day.     We are, on the whole a fortunate & happy country in spite of our partition problem. Alexandre Guranesco, new Roumanian Minister, who has served in

Transcription: Left page   Did Mussolini know & acquiesce beforehand? If so did he get a definite promise? Is he again to see the Senior Partner get all the fruits? Will he become desperate now? Or will he (so late) be moved to get a price from the Democracies?   Elsie and the girls were going to Venice for Easter. Not now. A new move may come almost at once from Rome.   It is sickening to see a decent little country wiped off the map.   And without a blow.   "Freedom shrieks" again.  Right page     I think the British were taken by surprise. Less than a week ago Sir Samuel Hoare was gaily talking of a conference between the three Dictators & France & Britain as a means of introducing an era of peace, prosperity & paradise.   A British under Minister was to go to Berlin this week to discuss trade developments.   Another League member has gone. Our position here is sufficiently discouraging. Chamberlain a fortnight ago again spoke in an unfair and unfriendly way of the League.

Transcription: Left page     Lord Halifax says this action is not in accordance with the spirit of Munich. He is bold! But I don't agree with him.   Chamberlain ("J'aime Berlin," as D.M. says) says we mustn't be deflected from our objects of peace &  appeasement. It sounds rather abject, and his credulity is "astronomisch".   His reactions are peculiar but slowness may be the most charitable description of them. Even he cannot go on.   The moral reaction in the world will be certain. An American paper says - "The Twilight of Liberty in Europe."  Right page   Hitler's objective of at least continental domination cannot now be hidden behind "unity of race" or "self-determination".   Holsti's first thought was a strengthening of the rear to enable him to face west. Poland &  Hungary - were they accomplices before the fact? Berlin has raised no longer the objection to a Polish-Hungarian frontier. Some people look on it as a check to Hitler's Eastward and South eastward  march. Nonsense!   I look for more serious consequences in the mediterranean area. We had been awaiting Mussolini's move when Berlin jumped again.

Transcription: Ashton Gwatkin, one of the principal British Economic Experts talking to Charron in Paris two days after the Prague coup, said that the reason the Czech frontiers were not guaranteed after Munich was that they did not believe it was the end of the movement. What they had expected was another Munich and that this would have given Germany the same results; the shock came  because of the slightly different method. He A.G. said he was astonished at the pessimism in Paris, pessimism as to the outlook for peace. He went on to indicate that his outlook was that Hungary and Roumania would be incorporated as servants of the five years plan without any territorial changes and when this was done Germany would turn to open her discussions with the West. There would be no danger of conflict, he thought, during this preparatory period, but the colonial question which would then be raised, could very easily produce a conflict.     I don't mind the cold-bloodedness, but it does seem extraordinary that the whole preparations for a test with Britain and France should be looked on with such equanimity and in completely certain anticipation that they would have to fight the reinforced Germany in the end.     Charron reports conditions in France as excellent from a financial point of view and as to the unity and morale of the people. The air force is still lacking, good plans are in progress, but there is a lag. He is sending me a letter from Grady, the United States Member of the Financial Economic Committee which meets next week and which puts up proposals more or less for an economic defence and which he regards as very revealing as to the attitude of Washington. rch 25th 1939

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