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Review of Reviews. In this contract Steed's cooperation was agreed in the German-language newspaper of the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior, the "Prague Presse", the cost of which was also borne by the Czecho-Slovak Foreign Ministry. Steed received £3,000 for this journalistic collaboration, which corresponded to the amount of RM 60,000, i.e. a total of £13,000, or 260,000, after his own admission within half a year. In this context, the opinion of the British Conservative MP Sir Patrik Hannon, who was in Prague on the occasion of the Sokol Congress in July 1938, appears interesting. According to a record in the same archive, he told the envoy Dr. Krno: "Czechoslovakia can count on the head of the UK government. However, she would make a mistake if she relied too much on various political charlatans (political busybodies) who stayed in Prague at that time. The Duchess of Atholl has made a complete fool of herself with her Spanish politics. Wickham Steed has been an excellent journalist, but today he doesn't mean anything anymore and also Seton Watson has no special influence. England, however, made neither a Czech nor a French, but its own British policy in Europe, since in the end it was not up to anyone, nor to the observance of its own word. England did not oppose Austria's connection to the Great German Empire in 1938 and thereby undermined Czechoslovakia's strategic position. When the Sudeten-Germans also wanted to join the Reich, England tried to show Germany its strength and finally advised Dr. Benesch to mobilize Czechoslovakia. The reasons which led to the fact that the previously so disinterested England, whose journalists had to be bribed by Benesht, in order not to let the interest in Czechoslovakia on the island completely for the first time, proved once again increased participation for the country, are easy to see. England wanted to extort concessions from Adolf Hitler, which were in the British interest, and it was prepared to get rid of Benesch and his republic on this occasion. About Dr. In July 1938, England sent Lord Runciman to Czechoslovakia as its extraordinary agent, who stayed with us for seven weeks and was supposed to appear as if the dispute between the Czechoslovak state and the Sudeten Germans was to be settled, but in reality the foreign policy of Dr. At the end of July, when Lord Runciman had already settled in Prague,