[Homer_J_Simpson]

3/27/39 Update

At a Foreign Policy Committee meeting of the British Cabinet, the Ministers decide to side with Poland, rather than try for a multi-nation agreement involving the Soviet Union.

http://www.worldwar-2.net/prelude-to-war/prelude-to-war-index.htm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Update at #12.

[BroJoeK]

"At a Foreign Policy Committee meeting of the British Cabinet, the Ministers decide to side with Poland, rather than try for a multi-nation agreement involving the Soviet Union."

There are a number of reasons for this:

• Poland, seeing the fate of Czechoslovakia (and possibly suspecting what Hitler had in store for them) did not want to give into Hitler.
  
• Poland, seeing the fate of other countries under Stalin's boot (i.e., Ukraine) would not accept Soviet help against Germany. Poles also remembered defeating the Soviets in 1921.
  
• The Brits by now understood that trying to appease Hitler was futile, but they did not yet begin to fully understand what it would take to stop him.

We note: that at this point Buchanan says, the Brits should have urged Poland to do like Czechoslovakia. His basic argument is that when all was said and done, Poland lost nearly six million dead fighting the Nazis, while Czechoslovakia lost 95% fewer by cooperating.

In 1939 Poland was three times larger than Czechoslovakia. Today, even with new borders it's four times larger than the Czech Republic.

I think the Poles' fate was sealed, especially the Jews, regardless of how much they might have tried to cooperate with Hitler.