Anglo-American Establishment полностью

would not have had to make such an about-face as that between page 96 and page 97 of

the book. On page 96, The Times's demand of 7 September was similar to the views of

Mr. Chamberlain, as expressed at Lady Astor's on 10 May, and "Geoffrey Dawson was a

personal friend of Lord Halifax." But on page 97, "The thoughtless irresponsibility of The

Times did not voice at that moment the views of His Majesty's Government. If Mr.

Wheeler-Bennett had added to his picture a few additional facts, such as a more accurate

version of German re-armaments, Runciman's letter of 2 September to Hitler, etc., he

would have found it even more difficult to make his picture of Munich stand up.

15. Count Helmuth lames von Moltke, a German of the Resistance (Johannesburg,

1947). See also Allen W. Dulles, Germany's Underground (New York, 1947), 85-90. The

additional letter added to the Johannesburg publication was written by von Moltke to his

wife just before his death. Curtis's name is mentioned in it.

16. On this whole movement, see Hans Rothfels, The German Opposition to Hitler

(Hinsdale, Illinois, 1948), and F. L. Ford, "The Twentieth of July in the History of the

German Resistance" in The American Historical Review (July 1946), LI, 609-626. On

Kordt's message to Lord Halifax, see Rothfels, 58-63.

17. A. C. Johnson, Viscount Halifax (New York, 1941), 531.

18. USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Documents and Materials Relating to the Eve

of the Second World War. II Dirksen Papers (1938-1939) (Moscow, 1948), 126-131.

19. British Blue Book, Cmd. 6106.

20. All documents on these negotiations will be found in a Swedish Foreign Ministry

White Paper, Forspelet till det tyska angreppet pa Danmark och Norge den 9 April 1940

(Stockholm 1947).

Chapter 13

1. On the Ministry of Information during the war, see Great Britain, Central Office of

Information, First Annual Report, 1947-1948. This is Cmd. 7567.

2. This extract is printed in the Report of the Council of the Royal Institute of

International Affairs for 1938-1939.

3. The last important public act of the Milner Group was the drawing of the Italo-

Yugoslav boundary in 1946. The British Delegate on the Boundary Commission was C.

H. Waldock, now a Chichele Professor and Fellow of All Souls, assisted by R. J.

Stopford.