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By Liakhovetsky, Ivan Mikhailovich (Maisky)

The Complete Maisky Diaries: Volume 1

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Page 322

5 September
Today I saw Corbin and was surprised to find out that he still knew nothing about Litvinov’s conversation with Payart on 2 September. I had to relate it to him in its every detail. Strange! Such an important talk at such a crucial moment should, it seems, have been conveyed to the French ambassador in London right away and yet… Something is wrong here! Equally strange is the fact that, despite the talkative nature of the French, not a word has been written about the Moscow conversation in the French press. Bonnet, it seems, is trying to hush up the news…
Citrine is playing a disgraceful role at the Trades Union Congress conference currently taking place in Blackpool. The Czechoslovakia problem is being discussed there. A number of delegations have put forward a motion demanding that the British government take genuinely effective measures to protect Czechoslovakia from German aggression. The response? Citrine created a veritable scandal. He stated, inter alia, that he would be ready for a split in the workers’ movement should such a resolution be adopted. Our trade-unionist heroes chickened out as usual, and a compromise resolution was adopted and published in newspapers. Chamberlain and Citrine – these are the two most sinister figures in England today.
[The Times leader of 7 September, which was appended to the diary, floated a ballon d’essai on behalf of the inner Cabinet. The fateful lines were written by the editor Geoffrey Dawson, whose close All Souls College connections with Halifax made him an ‘ex officio member of the Cabinet’, with exclusive access to the proceedings of the crucial 30 August meeting. The article urged the Czechoslovak government to cede the Sudetenland, as ‘the advantages to Czechoslovakia of becoming a homogeneous state might conceivably outweigh the obvious disadvantages of losing the Sudeten German districts of the borderland’.
R. Cocket, Twilight of Truth: Chamberlain, appeasement, and the manipulation of the press (New York, 1989), p. 71.
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Document Title5 September
AuthorLiakhovetsky, Ivan Mikhailovich (Maisky)
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Date1938 Sep 5
AOC VolumeThe Complete Maisky Diaries: Volume 1
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