MACKIEWICZ Stanislaw
AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK -SAYS THE ACTOR- THE PLAY IS OVER
The politics of Jozef Beck
London, 1942, M.I.Kolin [Publishers] Ltd., pp. 172, format 14x21.5 cm
Issue 1.
I titled my book on Beck's policy: At eleven o'clock," says the actor, "the play is over. It was a pretentious title, it should rather have been used for the book's motto. But it expressed the idea that policy must correspond to the capabilities that the state has, that policy must be coordinated with the potential of the state. That's what Bismarck meant when he used those very words: At eleven o'clock," says the actor, "the play is finished. That is, one can and does make policy independent of the state's proper powers, but a politician who uses this kind of bluff and masquerade must know that it will end just as any actor's play ends. And that is why let me quote the sentences with which I ended my émigré study of the politics of Jozef Beck: "Foreign policy is a great chessboard on which, instead of ivory figures, living nations stand in fields.
BOLD COVER
DB+ condition/ stains, soiling of cover
