Source 1a

Extract from a letter from Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador in Germany, September 6th, 1938 (FO 371/21737)

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It is no exaggeration to say that the world is awaiting with anxiety the message which Hitler has to deliver at Nuremberg.  He cannot get out of delivering it: that must be realised.  The anxiety is no less great in Germany than elsewhere.  And dictators can & must speak more clearly than the leaders of a democracy,  That is why I have been pressing these last weeks for a clarification before Nuremberg of the situation at Prague.  Benes will never go far enough till he is made to do so: & the whole of the Carlsbad points is better than any terms he is likely to get later, war or no war.

[Edvard Benes was the President of Czechoslavakia]