ABSTRACT
On 15 September 1938, Chamberlain met Hitler at Berchtesgaden, to begin the first of a series of Anglo-French diplomatic attempts to avert the threat of a European war. The Czechoslovakian crisis of September and early October 1938 would open a new phase of the BUF's ongoing campaign to prevent Britain becoming embroiled in what Mosley defined as a 'foreign quarrel'. On 14 September, the Department of Organisation circulated a memorandum to all BUF branches urging a renewed and intensive campaign to counter the current 'war-propaganda' which was moving 'with accelerated momentum to its deadly end'.1 The communiqué, which declared that the membership had 'a sacred duty to perform' at this 'present critical time', concluded that the BUF peace slogan: '"Mind Britain's Business" can never have a more present and awful meaning than it now has'.
