BIB_ID
441594
Accession number
MA 13112.96
Creator
Knatchbull-Hugessen, Hughe, Sir, 1886-1971, sender.
Display Date
Ankara, Turkey, 1939 December 16
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 19.2 x 12.4 cm
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery from: British Embassy / Angora.
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Remarking that he is using the civilian form of address as he does not know how far Balston may have progressed in the military hierarchy; writing that he is glad that Balston will now "have some voice in our military matters", and responding to his statement that "relations between Russia & Germany are beyond comprehension" by giving the opinion that "neither are up to any good" and "either would score off the other", but it remains uncertain how far they would go to score off a third party or assist one another to do so; lamenting that "materialism" and pragmatism of modern politics and citing China as a victim of atrocities at the hands of the Japanese, yet forced to condone comparable atrocities inflicted by Russia on Finland "simply because she can't offend Russia & Japan together."
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