addison was appointed minister to latvia, lithuania and estonia in 1927 and transferred to be minister to czechoslovakia in 1930. "the times" obituary said "for the next six years he held this important position and did much to foster good relations with the czechoslovak government, especially after the seizure of power by the nazis in germany in 1933." however, a historian of the period claims that addison "made virtually no attempt to conceal his contempt for his hosts" and was "very much responsible for cultivating a negative view of the czechs and their country in british official circles" and that he "disliked edvard beneš [czech foreign minister, later president] with considerable passion and took delight in embarrassing him in his reports from prague."