James Holland

The Soviet Union said, yeah, but we want to be able to march through Poland if we get threatened by Germany. Both the British and the French just smell a massive rat there. They're basically saying, if they agree to that, what they fear is that Soviet Union will just march into Poland and go, yeah, but you said we could, and take it, which they unquestionably would have done.

The Soviet Union said, yeah, but we want to be able to march through Poland if we get threatened by Germany. Both the British and the French just smell a massive rat there. They're basically saying, if they agree to that, what they fear is that Soviet Union will just march into Poland and go, yeah, but you said we could, and take it, which they unquestionably would have done.

The Soviet Union said, yeah, but we want to be able to march through Poland if we get threatened by Germany. Both the British and the French just smell a massive rat there. They're basically saying, if they agree to that, what they fear is that Soviet Union will just march into Poland and go, yeah, but you said we could, and take it, which they unquestionably would have done.

Both the British and the French just smell a massive rat there.

They're basically saying, you know, if they agree to that, what they fear is that Soviet Union will just march into Poland and go, yeah, but you said we could and take it, which they unquestionably would have done.

Well, they're not willing to appease anybody by that stage. That's the point. Well, they appeased Hitler. They did, but there's a bottom line, which is Poland. So it's changed. That's the point. Right, right. But anyway, the bottom line is there is a reluctance on the part of French and British to negotiate with the Soviet Union because they're communists. They don't like them. Don't trust them.

Well, they're not willing to appease anybody by that stage. That's the point. Well, they appeased Hitler. They did, but there's a bottom line, which is Poland. So it's changed. That's the point. Right, right. But anyway, the bottom line is there is a reluctance on the part of French and British to negotiate with the Soviet Union because they're communists. They don't like them. Don't trust them.

Well, they're not willing to appease anybody by that stage. That's the point. Well, they appeased Hitler. They did, but there's a bottom line, which is Poland. So it's changed. That's the point. Right, right. But anyway, the bottom line is there is a reluctance on the part of French and British to negotiate with the Soviet Union because they're communists. They don't like them. Don't trust them.

Well, they're not willing to appease anybody by that stage.

That's the point.

Well, they appeased Hitler.

They did, but there's a bottom line, which is Poland.

So it's changed.

That's the point.

Right, right.

But anyway, the bottom line is there is a reluctance on the part of French and British to negotiate with the Soviet Union because they're communists.

They don't like them.

Don't trust them.

worry about what they're going to do with Poland and they're going to be, you know, jumping out of the fire into the kind of water and it doesn't come off.

worry about what they're going to do with Poland and they're going to be, you know, jumping out of the fire into the kind of water and it doesn't come off. And as a consequence of that, Soviet Union continued to pursue more hardly, you know, more and more vociferously the opportunities that the Germans are offering, which is the split of Poland.