Great Britain’s foreign policy as seen by Romanian diplomatic attachés in London (1933-1939)
Great Britain’s foreign policy as seen by Romanian diplomatic attachés in London (1933-1939)

Summary/Abstract: The present article pertains to the continual and efficient activity carried out by Romanian diplomats within the London Legation. During the interwar period, political, military and diplomatic personalities – such as N. Titulescu, N. Rădescu, V.V. Tilea and others – contributed to a better understanding of Great Britain’s foreign policy in relation to Romania and the Great Powers of the times. Romanian diplomats – C.M. Laptew, Gh. Niculescu, Gh. Dumitrescu, Radu Florescu – who constitute the topic of our article, reported and characterised Great Britain’s foreign policy in the fourth decade of the twentieth century as “balance” and also “compromise policy”, British governments “showing no definite inclination towards one way or the other”. The reports of Romanian diplomats in London reveal that only after “the division and military occupation of Czechoslovakia and then Memel”, which “shocked English public opinion”, will there be a change in the British Cabinet’s position towards the aggressors.

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