Foreign Office, britské vyslanectví v Praze a sudetoněmecká otázka v roce 1937

• Authors: Lukáš Novotný

Title variants

EN

The Foreign Office, the British Legation in Prague, and the Sudetengerman question in 1937

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The views of Great Britain and its Foreign Office concerning the relation between the Czech and the German ethnic population in Czechoslovakia changed in the 1920s and 1930s. While in the 1920s the status quo in Czechoslovakia was recognized by London and the country was viewed positively as a rationally organized state, there was a change in the latter half of 1930s consisting in a shift from the positive toward a rather hesitant attitude to the existence of Czechoslovakia. The present study is based on an analysis of British unpublished sources related to the activities of the British Legation in Prague and shows that the year 1937 constituted a change in the Legation’s views of Czechoslovakia compared to the preceding period of time. Its leading officials, Envoy Basil Cochrane Newton and Secretary Robert Hadow, increasingly tended to the opinion that Prague must achieve an agreement with the Sudetengerman Party. This was an obvious shift in position compared to the year 1936 when the British Legation demanded negotiations with all Sudetengermans, including the “activistic” parties.

Keywords

EN

history; 20th century; Great Britain; Foreign Office; Sudetengermans; Czechoslovakia; year 1937

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 101-130

Contributors

author

Lukáš Novotný

• Filozofická fakulta Západočeské univerzity, Sedláčkova 38, 306 14 Plzeň, Czech Republic