The actual policy of the Western governments, with respect to the Yugoslav crisis, has proved to be that Bosnia fall as rapidly as possible to the Serbs and Croats so as to end the political embarrassments in the West of television reports on Bosnian suffering. The former Polish prime minister, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, was sent to Yugoslavia by the U.N. Human Rights Commission to investigate human-rights abuse there, and defiance both of treaty and international law, but his damning reports are left without sequel.
This generation of Western leaders, George Bush, Francois Mitterrand, Helmut Kohl, John Major, Douglas Hurd, will be held to account by history for this, as were Chamberlain, Halifax, Daladier -- and Hindenburg and Franz von Papen -- for what they did or failed to do.
