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It was the system that introduced serfdom anew.
It was the system that provoked an artificial famine in the Ukraine during peace time. Six million
people died of hunger in the Ukraine at the border of Europe during the years 1932 and 1933.
During the years 1918 and 1919 the Tcheka shot more than 1,000 people a month without legal
procedure. At the climax of Stalin-terror, during the years 1937-1938, the number of people shot to
death averages more than 40,000 a month.
- and with this country, with this Soviet Union, the whole allied democratic world entered a war
alliance in 1941."- Alexander Solszenizyn, June 30th 1975. U.S. - American Union Organization
CHAPTER.12
THE PEACEMAKERS
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES
"The undersigned who believe that real friendship and co-operation between Great Britain and
Germany are essential to the establishment of enduring peace not only in Western Europe but
throughout the world, strongly deprecate the attempt which is being made to sabotage an Anglo-
German rapprochement by distorting the facts of the Czecho-Slovak settlement.
We believe that the Munich Agreement was nothing more than the rectification of one of the most
flagrant injustices of the Peace Treaty. It took nothing from Czecho-Slovakia to which that country
could rightly lay claim, and gave nothing to Germany which could have been rightfully withheld. We
see in the policy so courageously pursued by the Prime Minister (Neville Chamberlain) the end of a
long period of lost opportunities and the promise of a new era to which the tragic years that have gone
since the War will seem like a bad dream."
It bore the signatures of the following: Lord Arnold, Captain Bernard Ackworth, Prof. Sir Raymond
Beazley, Mr. C.E Carroll, Sir. John Smedley Crooke, M.P., Mr. W.H. Dawson, Admiral Sir, Barry
Domville, Mr. A.E.R Dyer, Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Viscount Hardinge of Penshurst, Mr. F.C
Jarvis, Mr. Douglas Jerrold, Sir. John Latta, Prof. A.P Laurie, The Marquess of Londonderry, Vice-
Admiral V.B Molteno, Captain A.H Maule Ramsey, M.P., Mr. Wilmot Nicholson, Lord Redesdale,
Captain Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, Capt. Arthur Rogers, OBE, Maj-Gen, Arthur Solly-Flood, Mrs. Nesta
Webster, Mr. Bernard Wilson. - The Times, October 6th 1938 (Note: This letter was held up for five
days before The Times reluctantly agree to publish it.
BACKGROUND TO THE MUNICH AGREEMENT
The dismemberment of Germany following the Great War meant that the Sudetenland (Bohemia and
Moravia), part of Germany for 700 years and with a population of over 3 million Germans, being
moved - against their wishes - out of their homeland to become part of a newly-created country,
populated mainly by Czechs and Slovaks, which was to be called Czecho-Slovakia.
The Sudeten Germans suffered greatly under Czech rule. On March, 4th, 1919, public meetings
calling for self determination were brutally broken up and 52 German civilians were murdered. Lord
Rothermere described Czechoslovakia as a 'swindle'
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