On 22 May, Poland`s ambassador to France, Juliusz Eukasiewicz, told French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet that if France preferred Germany to defend Czechoslovakia, “we will not budge.” The city also told Bonnet that Poland would oppose any attempt by Soviet forces to defend Czechoslovakia against Germany. Daladier told Jakob Surits [ru; de], to the Soviet ambassador to France: “Not only can we not count on Poland`s support, but we also do not believe that Poland will not hit us in the back.” [19] However, the Polish government has indicated on several occasions (in March 1936 and May, June and August 1938) that he was ready to fight Germany if the French decided to help Czechoslovakia: “Beck`s proposal to Bonnet to show his statements to Ambassador Drexel Biddle and to Vansittart`s statement that the Polish Foreign Minister is indeed ready to pursue a radical policy if the Western powers commit a war with Germany. But these proposals and statements did not elicit a reaction from the British and French governments, which seemed to avoid war by calming Germany. [20] “Czechoslovakia has decided to accept all Munich conditions on 30 September. On the morning of 30 September, Benes addressed the Soviet ambassador desperately. “Czechoslovakia is faced with the choice to start the war with Germany and has Britain and France against it,… or capitulate to the aggressor. What would be the attitude of the U.S.S.R. towards these two possibilities, “that is, a continuation of the struggle or the capitulation”? Before the Soviet government could discuss the issue, another telegram told them that no answer was needed: “The Czechoslovakian government has already decided to accept all the conditions.” It is hard to believe that the investigation was conducted seriously. Benea remained true to his determination that Czechoslovakia could not fight alone or with Soviet Russia as a single ally. Years later, in 1944, he claimed that the Polish threat to Ticino had given him the last push for surrender; if so, it was just a boost in the direction in which he had decided to go. He still believed – rightly, it turned out – that Hitler was going to spread himself; but the trial lasted longer than he had hoped. Meanwhile, the Czechs were spared the horrors of war, not only in 1938, but during World War II. After that, looking at Prague from the presidential palace, the heirs could say, “Isn`t that beautiful? The only city in Central Europe is not destroyed.

And everything I do. [76] In the late 1930s, storm clouds accumulated over Europe. The main reason was the action of the German leader Adolf Hitler. He said his long-term goal was to attack the USSR and destroy communism. But in the short term, it has raised concerns in Western and Central Europe. In 1938, he had broken the terms of the Treaty of Versaille by rebuilding the German armed forces and taking control of Austria. In September 1938, he threatened to go to war with Czechoslovakia if the Czechs refused to cede parts of their country to Germany.