Transcription: [Page two:]   It is too soon really to form very definite opinions, but the first words in this note repre- sent mine.    What Chamberlain has done is a logical sequence of the policy pursued by Britain and France during the past two years; they paralysed the League of Nations; they gave no help to the weak attacked by the strong; they ran away every time a threat was uttered; now they have given  Germany, for nothing but temporary peace, the fruits of a great campaign.   I believe they could, even a few weeks ago, have convinced Hitler they were ready to act in defence of their undertakings; they certainly  could have prevented these developments even 2 or 3 months ago. The Nazi and Fascist systems have made so great a victory that one wonders seriously now how long it may be before even France and even England are forced to adopt something of their system and methods. Democracy in a way does not matter, but the other makes decent life for civilized men entirely impossible: there is still the garden and the river.

Transcription: It has changed the face of Europe. Poland has snatched her bit from the Czechoslovakian carcass and Hungary is to get her share. The Czechs are offered an Anglo-French guarantee which seems a shameful kind of farce and worth nothing. The way to the South-East of Europe is opened to the Germans. The Polish Inspector General of the Army celebrating the transfer of Tsechen has announced that the era of brute force in Europe now begins and spoke of the illusionists of the Western democracies. Of course, there is the fact that the German people themselves were psychologically even less prepared for war than the French and British. There is the possibility still that something can be built on the new contacts between the four Leaders; there is a talk of a Four Power Pact. It may be, as Chamberlain hopes, the time of negotiation has come back again. Hitler has declared he has no more territorial pretentions in Europe. Some people believe it. In fact I think he does not need to move a soldier for some years; the way is open to him for economic and political progress through Hungary, Roumania, Yugoslavia. There is no counterpoise to his weight now; I think Poland will probably be left alone for some time; the small countries have lost any vestige of confidence they had in France and Britain. Komarnicki, the Polish Delegate met me during the crisis and with his smarmy smile asked me: Was not Beck right? I sought an elucidation: "Who would believe in the word of France now?"

Transcription: W. Churchill to P. Boncour, in a private letter— "Nous avons eu la choix entre la guerre  et la deshonneur; nous avons choisi la  deshonneur mais, quand même, nous aurons la guerre." "Today they ring their bells; tomorrow they will wring their hands" — Robert Walpole  [Page two:]   more than 50% of Germans, etc. He returned home jubilent and obtaining the consent of the French, forced the acquiescence from Czechoslovakia. A meeting had been arranged a week later, but in the meantime the German press and radio were increasing their demands; the British Prime Minister flew back a week later to Germany; it was no great surprise to those who knew the nazi method to find that during the week the price had gone up. Fresh demands were made upon Chamberlain and even he —as he later said— "bitterly reproached the Chancellor." The armies were mobilized in nearly every country in Europe. In Switzerland we had a black out; the bridges to all frontiers were mined and the tank traps prepared and the British fleet was mobilized. Clinging to the hope of peace by negotiation, Chamberlain asked Mussolini to intervene and a few hours before the German general mobilization was to take place, it was agreed that Mussolini, Hitler, Chamberlain and Daladier would meet in Munich. The 1st of October had been fixed for the German advance in Czechoslovakia. On the night of the 29th, the four Powers came to an agreement. The Czechs withdrew to the line agreed upon; Chamberlain on his return to London waved a paper into the air and announced that he had, like Beaconsfield come back from Germany "carrying peace with honour". There is something indecent in this. "Peace for our time" he said, but that remains to be seen. The peoples of the world have accepted the peace with a great sigh of relief and Chamberlain's reception in London, as Daladier's in Paris and Mussolini's in Rome were those for a great hero; here and there a voice of warning was raised: Duff Cooper, who was First Lord of the Admiralty resigned; no Minister resigned in Paris.

Transcription: КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ ТОТАЛИТАРИЗМ, НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ КОНФЛИКТЫ И ПУТИ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОГО ОСВОБОЖДЕНИЯ Ф. Печюлявичюте И. О. Бируте Г. Вильнюс ВИЛЬНЮС 1989 1989

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