（2）英法在东方的地位因欧战削弱，美国则继续采取坐山观虎斗的政策，故东方慕尼黑会议暂时无召集的可能。

• (b) Britain and France are finding their positions in the East weakened by the war in Europe,while the United States is continuing its policy of "sitting on top of the mountain and watching the tigers fight",so that an Eastern Munich conference is out of the question for the moment.