Oh dear. I feel like I’m becoming a member of the Cliveden Set.

Except without the wealth, power, genetic aristocratic inbred stupidity etc..

This appeasement business makes sense does it not? If just to buy time?

Please help me.

Yours,
CK Mitford

PS: Plus, Brett, you’re doing a PhD. I don’t expect answers, but some perspective from YPOV on the appeasement question would be nice.

Re the skirmishes — I know! It was a surprise to me too. I think a military history on those lines would be very interesting, as would one of interwar peacekeeping and plebiscites etc generally. Maybe somebody has done it. On the British Legion, well there’s only one day of Sudeten post-blogging to go, but I’ll keep my eye out! Again, something I’d never heard of before I looked at these newspapers.

Again, though: skirmishes on the Czech-Hungarian border. Wow – this is all news to me, and it shouldn’t be. We need a _military_ history of all the ‘disorder’, incidents, provocations, and low-intensity conflict in interwar Europe. One interesting point of comparison would be the conflict in Silesia in 192x after the plebiscite there, which IIRC led to shootings of/by the British occupation forces.

Can we stick with the British Legion, as well? Again, this is immensely interesting to me, especially since they are filling a role that after WW2 would be given to a UN peacekeeping force, to a supranational body like the OSCE, or to a few hundred hastily-drafted British police.