摘要：The aim of the article is to present British foreign policy called 'policy of ap-peasement' in the period between May 1937 and September 1939. The article de-scribes among other things English-German,English-Italian,English- Polish relationswith regard to situation in Europe,mainly her Central-Eastern part. British foreignpolicy in Neville Chamberlain's term of office was typified by larger and larger con-cessions to Germany i.a. Austria,Czecho-Slovakia,Memel (Klaipeda). Chamberlain,upset by development of situation in Europe,decided to grant Poland unilateral guar-early in April. This change in British foreign policy,concessions replaced with guar-antees,did not finished the policy of appeasement. British politicians still consideredpeaceful solutions at the cost of other countries - in September 1939 Poland fell vic-tim to appeasement policy. The Anglo-Polish agreement regarding a provision of mu-help avoiding the war,only postponed it for a few days. Although the English joinedWorld War II (3 September),at the beginning they reduced their participation only topropaganda activities,like dropping leaflets on German territory. Conduct of Britishforeign policy was a great disappointment for Polish governement and society. GreatBritain put away direct confrontation with the III Reich and gained time for prepara-tion. According to British opinion the abovementioned actions were one of the fac-tors which contributed to win World War ILantees (31 March 1939),which were altered by Józef Beck into bilateral obligationtual aid concluded on 25* August 1939.
