PROTEST BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE ANNEXATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA [From British Foreign Office files]
[C 3318/19/18]
No. 143.
Viscount Halifax to Sir N. Henderson (Berlin).
(No. 68.) (Telegraphic.) R. Foreign Office, March 17, 1939.
Please inform German Government that His Majesty's. Government desire to make it plain to them that they cannot but regard the events of the past few days as a complete repudiation of the Munich Agreement and a denial of the spirit in which the negotiators of that agreement bound themselves to co-operate for a peaceful settlement.
His Majesty's Government must also take this occasion to protest against the changes effected in Czecho-Slovakia by German military action, which are, in their view, devoid of any basis of legality.
Instructions to Ambassodor Henderson to inform the German government that the British government regards Germany's actions in Czechoslovakia as illegal and a violation of the Munich agreement
Authors
Edward F. L. Wood (Lord Halifax; British politician and diplomat)
Edward F. L. Wood
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Date: 17 March 1939
Literal Title: Protest by the British Government against the Annexation of Czechoslovakia.
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: TC-52
Citation: IMT (page 947)
HLSL Item No.: 450659