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The Complete Maisky Diaries: Volume 1
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By Liakhovetsky, Ivan Mikhailovich (Maisky)

The Complete Maisky Diaries: Volume 1

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2 September
Azcárate, who recently returned from Spain, told me that Barcelona, after Franco’s response, regards the opening of the French border as its priority. About two days ago, Azcárate visited Vansittart, who treated him with the utmost attentiveness and asked him many questions about the situation at the front lines, at the rear, etc., and did not conceal that his sympathies lay with the Republicans. In conclusion, V. asked Azcárate to set out in a private letter his personal considerations concerning the Spanish question as it stands today. Azcárate has already done so. Later, he also visited Halifax, where he received a quite different reception. Outwardly, Halifax observed all the proprieties, but when he heard Azcárate declare that England and France, having actively insisted in July on the immediate adoption of the Committee’s plan for Barcelona, were now morally obliged (following the plan’s rejection by


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the insurgents) to free the Republic from the shackles of non-intervention, he could do nothing better than lecture the Spanish ambassador on the benefits of non-intervention. Further proof that Chamberlain will never give up this damned Committee!
***
A visit from Corbin, who has just returned from holidays in Évian-les-Bains. In Paris he met Daladier and Bonnet. The situation in Europe is critical, according to them, and Corbin wants to be in as close contact with me as possible. Simon’s speech in Paris is considered insufficiently clear and firm. France itself will fulfil its obligations to Czechoslovakia.
Very good. Yet there was something I didn’t quite like. I asked Corbin what the French government would consider to be an act of aggression sufficient to oblige it to stand up against Germany? Imagine the following scenario: Henlein declares the independence of the Sudetenland, he forms a provisional government, the latter invites Hitler to send his troops to Bohemia, and then German divisions enter the territory of Czechoslovakia. What would this be – an act of aggression in the terms of the Franco-Czech agreement or not?
Corbin was confused and began ‘treading water’. He eventually announced that it was hard to discuss hypothetical situations in detail.
Corbin and I nearly had an argument over the Spanish question. He’s all for doing nothing. No need to call the Committee together; instead, Hemming
Arthur Francis Hemming, secretary, Economic Advisory Council, 1930–39.
should be sent to Burgos
The official seat of Franco’s government during the Civil War.
for a clarification of Franco’s reply.
***
Yesterday, Kennedy, the American ambassador, had a lengthy talk with Chamberlain. The prime minister asked him to approach Roosevelt and find out what would be the US interpretation of their neutrality law in the event of a European war. Can the democratic countries rely on getting weapons and money from America? Kennedy promised to contact the president.
It seems that even Chamberlain is losing hope of an easy agreement with the aggressors.
***
Plymouth invited me over and passed on to me the British government’s memorandum, which boils down to sending Hemming to Burgos (probably to Barcelona as well) for talks with Franco (possibly with Negrín,
Juan Negrín, Spanish minister of finance, 1936–37; premier of the Republican government, 1937–39; following Franco’s victory in 1939, he fled to Paris, where he tried to organize a government in exile; found refuge in England when the Germans invaded France in 1940. Maisky spent most weekends at his country house in Bovingdon.
too) about the Committee’s future plans. Franco, you see, doesn’t grasp all the subtleties of


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the plan, and Hemming will clarify them. Plymouth asked me what I thought about the memorandum, but I merely declared that I would convey its content to Moscow.
An outrageous idea! If the British do not want to do anything to implement the plan and stop the intervention, that’s their business. But then let everyone see that they do not wish to do anything. Why assist them in their pretence through the appearance of activity and of efforts to implement the plan on the part of the Committee?
Azcárate was beside himself with rage when I showed him Plymouth’s memorandum.
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Document Title2 September
AuthorLiakhovetsky, Ivan Mikhailovich (Maisky)
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Date1938 Sep 2
AOC VolumeThe Complete Maisky Diaries: Volume 1
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