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Anxious queries from French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet were soon answered by British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax with official assurances that the Anglo-French entente has not been scrapped or even weakened by the Chamberlain-Hitler communiqué. Neutral diplomatic experts shrugged, "The terms of the communiqué are indeed so vague that, depending upon circumstances, they can come to mean anything or nothing." Mr. Chamberlain dispatched a formal letter of assurance to M. Daladier...
Document 1 is the final Runciman Report, summing up scores of hitherto secret cablegrams and verbal messages sent to His Majesty's Government by Viscount Runciman of Doxford in the period from August 3 to September 16, during which the veteran British shipping tycoon labored in Czechoslovakia as mediator...
...could have engaged in a war of indefinite duration," Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax countered to the House of Lords. "If we had won, nobody, in settling the boundaries of Czechoslovakia, would have redrawn them as they were left by the Treaty of Versailles." Lord Halifax said the reason why Russia was not invited to Munich was that, if she had been, then neither Germany nor Italy would have attended. Concluded the tall, ascetic Viscount, who has a nationwide British reputation in Church circles for spirituality and moral leadership: "I have taken no decision which, on all the facts...
...tall, ascetic Opposition pillar of British morality, Viscount Cecil, rebutted: "I suggest that the Four Power Conference was to enable Hitler to get out of his [Godesberg] position with the least loss of reputation...
...Jumps In. Not a word did President Benes reply to demands made last week by Poland and Hungary that Czechoslovakia must yield her Polish and Hungarian minority districts to them, since she had promised to yield the Sudetenland to Germany. Dr. Benes left it to high-minded, sad-faced Viscount Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, to tell Polish and Hungarian envoys in London at two extremely angry sessions that they could not have what Germany could wrest by her Might; instead, they must delay their claims until a later date. The psychologist of Prague correctly judged that this would...