“The whole lot, Czechs, Magyars, Poles, Jugos, Roumanians, should be put in a bag and shaken up and then handed over to a decent Briton to administer.” A Contribution on the British Perception of Czech-German Relations in Czechoslovakia to 1933

Lukáš Novotný

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dc.creator	Lukáš Novotný
dc.date	2017
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dc.date.accessioned	2018-05-28T11:05:20Z
dc.date.available	2018-05-28T11:05:20Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier	ISSN 2336-7105
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97259
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dc.description	The study uses unpublished sources from the National Archives in London and scientific literature toanalyse the British Legation in Prague’s perception of Czech-German relations in Czechoslovakia upto 1933. After some initial fumbling caused by a lack of knowledge of the Central European region followingthe collapse of Austria-Hungary, responsible officials in London decided to wait for the outcomeof the peace conference in Paris. At the same time, British diplomats acknowledged that theywould have to rely on co-operation with France in the region, and as a result indirectly supportedFrench claims and demands; once the peace conference had ended, however, Great Britain focusedon its own issues and the affairs of its empire. At the start of the 1920s, the British diplomatic missionin Prague also settled in its position and the first Minister, George Clerk, provided unbiased informationon Czech-German coexistence within Czechoslovakia, and partially acknowledged that bothsides were right (he understood some of the Germans’ objections), but on the other hand he clearlyrecognised the new state and perceived its minorities policy as very accommodating, and respecting international obligations. Following the calm period of the 1920s when even the British Legationin Prague remarked on the qualitative shift in relations between both ethnicities, the beginning ofthe 1930s arrived alongside the economic crisis, which transformed the domestic political situationwithin the First Czechoslovak Republic. According to British Minister, Joseph Addison, the positionof the largest minority in the country had deteriorated, something he thought was due to the factthat Czechoslovak officials were breaching the Minority Treaty and were not doing enough for thewellbeing of its German population, and that this did not bode well for the future.
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dc.publisher	Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy
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dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
dc.source	Prague Papers on the History of International Relations, 2017, 1, 102-114
dc.subject	Czechoslovakia
dc.subject	Great Britain
dc.subject	Sudeten Germans
dc.subject	National Minorities
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dc.title	“The whole lot, Czechs, Magyars, Poles, Jugos, Roumanians, should be put in a bag and shaken up and then handed over to a decent Briton to administer.” A Contribution on the British Perception of Czech-German Relations in Czechoslovakia to 1933
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dc.type	Článek	cs_CZ
dc.type	Article	en_US
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dc.description.startPage	102
dc.description.endPage	114
dcterms.isPartOf.name	Prague Papers on the History of International Relations	cs_CZ
dcterms.isPartOf.journalYear	2017
dcterms.isPartOf.journalVolume	2017
dcterms.isPartOf.journalIssue	1

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