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Report to Lord Halifax on the threats used by Germans (including Seyss-Inquart) to force the partition of Czechoslovakia

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Basil Newton (British minister in Prague (1939))

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Basil Newton

British diplomat

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  • Born: 1889-01-01 1889-07-25
  • Died: 1965-01-01
  • Country of citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Occupation: diplomat
  • Position held: ambassador of the United Kingdom to Czechoslovakia (period: 1937-01-01 through 1939-01-01); ambassador of the United Kingdom to Iraq (period: 1939-01-01 through 1941-01-01)
  • Employer: Foreign Office
  • Educated at: King's College; Wellington College
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/33194488

Date: 21 March 1939

Literal Title: Further Correspondence Respecting Czechoslovakia[.] No. 22[.] Mr. Newton to Viscount Halifax - (Received March 24.)

Defendant: Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: D-571

Citation: IMT (page 2833)

HLSL Item No.: 453205

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Wars of aggression

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