Under the Versaille's Peace Treaty agreed after the Great War, the country of Czechoslovakia was created, which included an area known as `;Sudetenland';. (BNCI)
The French, with Polish support, believed that the Peace Treaty ought to smash German industrial power and territorial ambition by dismembering as much of the German state as was possible. (BNCI)
In the spring of 1950 decisions were reached in Washington that at last pointed the way forward towards a peace treaty. (BNCI)