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Once Henderson returned to his duties on 24 April 1939, following his authorised absence in protest against the occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, he was thrust into a situation of accelerating tension between Germany and Poland. Britain attempted, as it had done over Czechoslovakia in 1938, to play the role of mediator between the two parties.1
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D. Cameron Watt, How War Came, London, 1989, pp. 185–6.
L.B. Namier, Diplomatic Prelude, London, 1949, pp. 221–2.
C. Thorne, The Approach of War 1938–9, London, 1967, p. 162.
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Neville, P. (2000). The Polish Crisis. In: Appeasing Hitler. Studies in Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377639_8
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