Читаю журнал "За рубежом" 1936 года. Это такое...

I read the magazine "Abroad" in 1936. This is such a Soviet publication, founded by Maxim Gorky, which consisted of articles from the foreign press, stories of foreign authors of varying degrees of progressiveness and a few journalistic essays by prominent Russian specialists abroad. One of the issues contains an excerpt from the book of the British science fiction writer Sydney Fowler Wright, "The War of 1938." Wright’s novel was released in 1934, the original name is Prelude in Prague: The War of 1938. The action takes place in Czechoslovakia. An excerpt in a brief retelling: a spy from Germany moves across the border with Czechoslovakia, he is shot by border guards. At the same time, the Czechoslovak government is discussing a certain ultimatum proposal from the Germans, which one cannot but agree with. And then the war. One of the ministers also speaks of the possibility of a National Socialist conspiracy in Czechoslovakia. The spy, who was shot, was transporting certain guidelines to the German conspirators. In this case, the documents of the murdered spy hit some English ladies. This concludes the passage. But essentially, Sydney Fowler Wright predicted a lot of what would happen in real life. The Munich agreement, partition and occupation of Czechoslovakia are the events of 1938.