bout de papier, Volume 25, Issue No. 4, 2011
A Matter of Conscience: Early Warning of Russia’s Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Editor’s Note: Knowing too little is always a handicap, but knowing too much can present its own dilemmas. As Charles Cole graphically recounts in his narrative of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968, early warning of the Russian-led invasion presented a…
“Interesting times”, exciting times
“May you live in interesting times” goes the old Chinese curse, but few diplomats who love their profession would want it otherwise! These are very interesting times, and where they lead is uncertain.
Bohemian Tragedies
“Who is master of Bohemia,” the Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, once remarked, “is master of Europe”. That strategic importance was a mixed blessing in the history of the republic of Czechoslovakia, as it had been in the thousand years after Great…
