By Louise Grace Shaw
Inner most papers, diaries and govt and overseas workplace files are used inside this publication to provide an research of the attitudes of the British political elite in the direction of the Soviet Union, assessing the impact such attitudes had upon British overseas coverage among might 1937 and August 1939.
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Halifax to Chilston, 17 Aug. 1938, no. 637, DBFP, 3, II. 36. Note by Ashton Gwatkin, 26 Aug. 1938, no. 698, ibid. 37. Henderson to Halifax, 4 Sept. 1938, no. 771, ibid. 38. Richard Austin Butler, The Art of the Possible (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971), p. 71. 39. Although Britain was not a part of the Soviet-French-Czech alliance system, it had involved itself in deliberations about the future of the Sudetenland—a subject of direct interest to the Soviet government. 40. ‘Notes by the First Sea Lord on Sir Robert Vansittart’s memorandum on the world situation and rearmament.
Jill Edwards, The British Government and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (London: Macmillan, 1979), pp. 35–6, 60–1, 153. 4. , p. 60. 5. , p. 136. Robertson (eds), Paths to War: New Essays on the Origins of the Second World War (New York: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 199–232. 6. War Office note on the supply of arms to Spain, 23 Nov. 1936, FO 371/ 20586. Cited in Edwards, The British Government, pp. 135, 47–8, 130–1. 7. , pp. 117–27. THE CABINET AND COMMUNISM 25 8. Eden to Chilston, 27 Oct. 1937, no. 271; Eden to Chilston, 18 Oct.
167. 79. C. Watt, ‘The May Crisis of 1938: A Rejoinder to Mr Wallace’, Slavonic and East European Review, 4 (1966), pp. 475–80 at p. 475. 80. Watt, ‘Appeasement’, p. 195. 81. Memoranda by Vansittart, 21 Mar. 1938, VNST 1, 1/23, 20 Jan. 1938, VNST 11, 2/16. Cited in John R. Ferris, ‘“Indulged in All Too Little”? : 28 THE BRITISH POLITICAL ELITE AND THE SOVIET UNION, 1937–39 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. Vansittart, Intelligence and Appeasement’, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 6 (1995), pp.