may be persuaded to stay on, and finish the good work he has begun. In any case your
letter is sure to be fully considered by our Foreign Minister, who is also our Prime
Minister." See E. Sutton, Gustav Stresemann: His Diaries, Letters, and Papers (New
York, 1935), I, 451-454.
6. This paragraph is largely based on J. H. Morgan, Assize of Arms (London, 1945),
especially 199, 42, and 268. It is worthy of note that H. A. L. Fisher consulted with both
Lord D'Abernon and General Morgan on his visit to Germany in 1923 and came away
accepting the ideas of the former. Furthermore, when Gilbert Murray went to Geneva in
1924 as League delegate from South Africa, Fisher wrote him instructions to this effect.
See D. Ogg, Herbert Fisher (London, 1947), 115-117.
7. On this organization see Institute of Politics, Williams College, The Institute of
Politics at Williamstown: Its First Decade (Williams/own, Mass., 1931).
8. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, The Great Experiment (London, 1941), 166. The
quotations from Lord Esher’s Journals and Letters (4 vols., London, 1938) are in Vol.
IV, 227, 250, and 272.
9. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, The Great Experiment (London, 1941), 250.
10. The whole memorandum and other valuable documents of this period will be
found in USSR, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Documents and Materials Relating to the
Eve of the Second World War (5 vole., 1948-1949), Vol. I, November 1937-1938. From
the Archives of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 13-45. The authenticity of these
documents was challenged by an "unnamed spokesman" for the British Foreign Office
when they were first issued, but I am informed by the highest American authority on the
captured German documents that the ones published by the Russians are completely
authentic.
11. Keith Feiling, Life of Neville Chamberlain (London, 1941), 333. The author is a
Fellow of All Souls, close to the Milner Group, and wrote his book on the basis of the
late Prime Minister's papers, which were made available by the family.
12. See Lionel Curtis, Civitas Dei; The Commonwealth of God (London, 1938), 914-
930.
13. Robert J. Stopford, a close associate of the Milner Group whom we have already
mentioned on several occasions, went to Czechoslovakia with Runciman as a technical
adviser. See J. W. Wheeler-Bennett, Munich: Prologue to Tragedy (New York, 1948),
79, n. l.
14. The reference to Professor Schumann is in J. W. Wheeler-Bennett, Munich (New
York, 1948), 436, n.l. If Mr. Wheeler-Bennett had placed a little more credence in the
"pre-Munich plot," many of the facts which he cannot explain would be easily fitted into
the picture. Among them we might point out the mystifying (to Mr. Wheeler-Bennett)
fact that Lord Runciman's report of 16 September went further than either Hitler or
Henlein in demanding sacrifices from the Czechs (see Munich, p. 112). Or again he
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.