Abstract
The eventful year of 1938 culminated for Czecho-Slovakia1 with the Munich conference of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany at the end of September 1938. The Munich conference shook the Czecho-Slovak state to its foundations and affected its relations with Poland. After the Anschluss of Austria in March of 1938 by Germany, Polish diplomacy sought to link the question of the Polish minority in Czecho-Slovakia to the question of the German minority. Warsaw demanded that Czecho-Slovakia accord the same rights to the Polish minority as to any minority in the state. During critical moments in the fall of 1938, Poland benefited from mounting pressure from Germany and the Franco-British coupling on the Czecho-Slovak government. Czecho-Slovakia sought Polish neutrality, but Warsaw took advantage of Prague’s difficulties to renew old territorial demands. Prague had to give in to Polish demands in October and November of 1938, but the outbreak of the German-Polish war in September 1939 prevented longer-lasting effects of these border rectifications.2
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