⁴⁵¹ On 3 February 1938 Dawson had noted in his diary that he had had lunch with Kennedy, ‘who wants to work again. I suggested a definitely limited period, but he will be v. valuable this summer. I think we are in complete agreement about Germany, the League etc.’ Dawson Mss. 42, f. 25, Bodleian Library. Kennedy then travelled to central Europe on behalf of The Times and returned to work on the editorial staff on 1 April.

⁴⁵² Dawson had sent him a copy of a letter from Gilbert Murray.

⁴⁵³ Letter deposited in The Times archive.

⁴⁵⁴ Letter deposited in The Times archive.

⁴⁵⁵ Which explains why this entry is in pencil.

⁴⁵⁶ Artur Seyss—Inquart (1892–1946): Austrian Nazi; State Counsellor 1937; Min. of Interior 1938; Chane, of Austria 1938; Lt-Gen. SS 1938Google Scholar; Reich Gov. of Östmark 1938–9; during the war served as Reichkommissar for Netherlands; hanged at Nuremburg for crimes committed in Netherlands.

⁴⁵⁷ On 9 March Schuschnigg had announced that on Sunday 13 March he would hold a plebiscite on the issue of Austrian independence. The question that was to be asked was: ‘Are you for a free and German Austria, independent and socially harmonious, Christian and united; for peace and employment, and the equality of all who profess their faith in the people and the Fatherland?’. On 11 March Germany presented him with an ultimatum to postpone the plebiscite. When he agreed they demanded his resignation, with the provisions that Seyss-Inquart was to succeed him, that two-thirds of the cabinet seats be allotted to Nazis and that unrestricted freedom be given to the Nazi party in Austria. Schuschnigg, fearing invasion, announced his resignation via radio at 7:30 p.m.; by 8:15 Seyss-Inquart announced that he had invited Germany to assist him in preserving order in Austria and that German troops were crossing the frontier. By the next day one-thousand German troops occupied Vienna.

⁴⁵⁸ Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick (1897–1964): entered for. service 1919; 1^st Sec. in Rome 1930–2; Chargé d'Affaires at Holy See 1932–3; 1^st Sec. in Berlin 1933–8; Dir. For. Div. Ministry of Info. 1940; For. Adviser to BBC 1941, Controller of European Services 1941–4; Asst. U-Sec. FO 1945–8, Deputy U-Sec. 1948–9; PUS (German Section) 1949; UK High Commissioner for Germany 1950–3; PUS FO 1953–7; kt. 1948. See his The Inner Circle (1959).Google Scholar

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⁴⁶⁰ A typewritten copy inserted in the Journal.

⁴⁶¹ Letter deposited in The Times archive. Kennedy told Dawson that he has passed on ‘the gist’ of his conversation with Beneš.

⁴⁶² Deposited in The Times archive.

⁴⁶³ Harold Sydney Harmsworth (1868–1940): proprietor, Daily Mirror 1914–1931Google Scholar, Daily Mail & Evening News 1922–1940Google Scholar; Sec. for Air 1917–18; cr. Baron Rothermere 1914, Viscount 1919

⁴⁶⁴ Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937): Czechoslovak philosopher & politician; first Pres, of Czechoslovak Republic 1920–35.

⁴⁶⁵ Newton reported the conversation to the Foreign Office in tel. No. 33 on 17 March 1938.

⁴⁶⁶ Maximilian Lobkowitch (1888–1967): Czech diplomat; entered dip. service 1920; Sec. in London 1920–6; retd 1926; exiled to Britain 1939; Amb. in London 1940–7; exiled to U.S. 1047–67.

⁴⁶⁷ Typescript inserted in the journal, with a note that it was written in the train and that The Times had declined to publish it.

⁴⁶⁸ Josef Bürckel (1895–1944): Nazi politician; Min. to the Saar 1934; Commissioner for the Saar 1935–8; Gauleiter, Austria 1938–9, Moravia 1939–40, Lorraine 1940–1, Westmark 1941–1945.Google Scholar

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⁴⁷⁰ Edmund ‘Tiny’ Ironside (1880–1959): Commandant Staff College, Camberley 1922–6; Commandant 2^nd Div., Aldershot 1926–8; Commander Meerut Div., India 1928–31; Lieut, of H.M.'s Tower of London 1931–3; Quartermaster-Gen. India 1933–6; Gen. Officer C-in-C Eastern Command 1936–8; Gov. & C-in-C, Gibraltar 1938–9; Inspector-Gen, of Overseas Forces 1939; Chief Imperial Gen. Staff 1939–40; Gen. 1935, Field Marshal 1940; kt. 1919; cr. Baron Ironside of Archangel & of Ironside 1941. See The Ironside Diaries 1937–40 (1962).Google Scholar

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⁴⁷⁴ Konrad Henlein (1898–1945): founder & leader of Sudeten Heimatfront [Patriotic Front] which became Sudetendeutsche Partei 1933Google Scholar; Reichskommissar for Sudetenland Sept. 1938; Reich Gov. of Bohemia & Moravia May 1938; SS-Obergruppenführer 1943Google Scholar; committed suicide May 1945. See his We Want to Live as Free Men among Free Men (1983Google Scholar; transl, of 1938 ed.).

⁴⁷⁵ Rickard J. Sandler (1884–1964): PM 1925; Min. of For. Affairs 1932–6, 1936–40; mb. Swedish delegation to LoN 1927, 1929, 1931–8; Pres. LoN Assembly 1934; Swedish rep. to LoN Council 1936–9.

⁴⁷⁶ Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky (1884–1975): Russian diplomat; Counsellor in London 1925–7, Amb. 1932–43; Deputy For. Min. 1943–5; arrested during anti-Jewish purge of 1949; imprisoned 1949–53.

⁴⁷⁷ Eric Drummond suc. as 16th Earl Perth 1937.

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⁴⁷⁹ Maud Hoare; m. Samuel Hoare 1909; d. of 6^th Earl Beachamp.

⁴⁸⁰ ‘Nuremberg and Aussig,’ 7 09 1938Google Scholar. Dawson noted in his diary for 6 September that he had had ‘an extremely arduous afternoon & evening — Leo Kennedy was there rather reluctantly prepared to write on the Czech crisis wh. was obviously coming to a head & produced an article wh. I had to get him to re-write at the last minute. Even so it ventilated rather crudely the idea which we had often [illeg] before, of a secession of the Sudeten fringe in Germany & there was a lot of hurried revision to be done at midnight.’ Dawson Mss. 42, f. 132, Bodleian Library. A plate in The History of the Times vol. II (between pages 930 & 931) reproduces Dawson's ‘corrections’ to Kennedy's draft leader. The authors of the History never refer to Kennedy by name, but only as ‘the leader-writer’. Their argument that the decision taken in 1923 not to have a Foreign Editor left The Times without an ‘expert’, thus placing ‘the conduct of foreign affairs, even when a situation of extreme delicacy was reached, in the hands of the Editor unassisted by a specialist’ (p. 931) is preposterous.

⁴⁸¹ A copy of this message is in volume 12 of the ‘Press Cuttings Book’, where Kennedy has noted that ‘There were other reasons. Riots etc.’ The leader as I originally wrote it contained fuller & franker arguments in favour of an offer of secession by the Czech, Govt. to the Sudetens, but GD wdn't have it in that form, so I had to re-write the last half of it after 10 p.m.)

⁴⁸² Jessica Forres (d. 1972): daughter of William Harford JP; m. Stephen Williamson (1888–1954) 2nd Baron of Glenogil (cr. 1922); businessman; Chairman of Lobitos Oilfields Ltd, Anglo-Ecuadorian Oilfields Ltd (d. 1954).

⁴⁸³ (Henry) Wilson Harris (1883–1955): Ed. Spectator 1932–1953Google Scholar; Ind. MP Cambridge U. 1945–50. See his Life So Far (1954).Google Scholar