K interpretaci československo-britských vztahů: fakta versus domněnky a polopravdy Smetanova recenze pod drobnohledem
Facts versus Suppositions and Half-truths in the Interpretation of Czechoslovak-British Relations: Smetana's Review under the Microscope

Summary/Abstract: The author takes issue with Vft Smetana's review of his Nenaplnene nadeje: Politicke a diplomaticke vztahy Ceskoslovenska a Velke Britdnie (1918-1938) (Unfulfilled Hopes: Czechoslovak-British Political and Diplomatic Relations) published by Karolinum, Prague, in 2003. The review, 'Dejmkovo velke dilo pod drobnohledem' (Dejmek's Magnum Opus under the Microscope), was published in Soudobe dejiny 11 (2004), no. 4, pp. 97-116. The author rejects Smetana's argument, calling it academically unfounded, unoriginal, and driven more or less with an aim to discredit him. He defends himself particularly against the cri¬ticism that his book is written in a gloomy anti-British tone and that it tenden-tiously defends interwar Czechoslovak policy as personified by Edvard Benes. He argues that his book is the first treatment of the topic by a Czech author, and objects that in an attempt to proceed without bias he could not judge the positions of [...]

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