"Far Away Places:" Anschluss, Munich and Labour, 1938, Part II


Biography, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1985), p. 132, quoting Labour Party Annual Conference Report, 1939, p. 10.

[7] Ibid.

[8] Ibid.

[9] John F. Naylor, Labour's International Policy: The Labour Party in the 1930s, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 243, quoting Walter Citrine, Men and Work, p. 365.

[10] Ibid., p. 244.

[11] Ibid., quoting Documents in British Foreign Policy [D.B.F.P.], 3s., II, 465 (No. 1033).

Ivone Kirkpatrick, the British Foreign Office translator, quoted Hitler's expression: "Es tut mir leid, aber das geht nich mehr," which translates as "I'm sorry, but they [the proposals] will no longer do."

[12] Ibid.

[13] Ibid., p. 245.

[14] Ibid., quoting D.B.F.P., 3s., II, 519 (No. 1092) and 541-2 (No. 1097).

[15] Ibid., p. 246, quoting Keith Feiling, Chamberlain, (1946), p. 372.

[16] Where Cabinet Members sit in Parliament.

[17] Mowat, p. 616.

Mowat maintains that "the dramatic interruption of [Chamberlain's] speech was all but a put-up job." [See Mowat, p. 616].

[18] House of Commons Debates, 5th Series, vol. 339, 28 September 1938, col. 26.

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