Fault lay with the Czech nation for having the carelessness to lose most of its aristocracy following the Battle of White Mountain in 1620

It could, of course, be argued that that fault lay with the Czech nation for having the carelessness to lose most of its aristocracy following the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, and that a British peer [Viscount Doxford], wishing to associate with his social equals, had little choice  but to seek the only suitable company available, which happened to be German

Vrsny, quoted in M. Dinshaw, Outlandish knight: the Byzantine life of Steven Runciman (2016), 256

The section on Steven Runciman's father's doomed mission regarding the Sudetenland is depressing. This acerbic summary is I believe unfair, but nonetheless brilliant.