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10 - The European Policy of Czechoslovakia on the Eve of the Genoa Conference of 1922

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2013

Carole Fink
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Axel Frohn
Affiliation:
German Historical Institute, Washington DC
Jürgen Heideking
Affiliation:
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
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“The historian of European politics will have to dwell seriously on the Genoa Conference,” said Edouard Benes in a speech to the Czechoslovak National Assembly four days after the end of the conference. Thereby the head of government and foreign minister of the First Republic referred not simply to the immediate results of the Genoa Conference but also to the fact that this meeting of the major political leaders of thirty-four governments, including Soviet Russia and Germany, which had lasted six weeks, had been the “first international expression of the political and economic community of Europe” after World War I. This evaluation has survived for almost seven decades, as witnessed by Carole Fink's work published in 1984. There is little to add to this monograph, which draws on the materials of all the important archives of Western Europe and the United States. Nevertheless, this contribution will describe the events preceding the Genoa Conference from the viewpoint of Czechoslovakia on the basis of sources little used up to now.

At the end of 1921, Europe was in crisis. The conflicts of interest between the European Great Powers, France and Great Britain, which had burst open during the peace negotiations at Paris, began to endanger the guarantee mechanisms of the Versailles system even before they were firmly established. The clarification of such important questions as the affiliation and inclusion of Soviet Russia and Germany in the postwar economic order was still pending when the leaders of the major European powers traveled for the first time to the United States in November 1921. At the Naval Disarmament Conference in Washington decisions were made about the postwar regulation of the Pacific and the Far East.

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Print publication year: 1991

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