Though so far under-explored, British authors in the interwar period were frequently fascinated by the reconfiguration of East-central Europe following the war. Inspired by both British intellectual and political support for nationalism, as well as newfound disillusionment in the 1920s with ideas of democracy and nation-states, authors ranging from T.S. Eliot to Evelyn Waugh both represented and sought to alter the political decisions behind changes in East-central Europe. This paper will consider depictions of, and new proposals regarding, the politics of British involvement in East-central Europe in the interwar period. It will particularly focus on the work of C. K. Munro, a civil servant who critiqued British paternalism in The Rumour.