The bourgeois appeasement, most Churchill, shared that hope but recognised a greater danger; that if the Nazis overran central Europe, they would be in an extremely strong poșition to threaten the British empire and its super-profits.
concern posed by German imperialism, not the regimes imposed by fascism. had watched with admiration the destruction of the working class movements Germany when Mussolini and Hitler came to power.
The establishment's historians, benefit of hindsight, deride Chamberlain. For the working class, it is another matter. In the midst of the Russian Revolution, baboonery of Bolshevism' and then sought to send British troops to join the White Russians in the civil war.
General Strike had been to call for martial law. Some saviour of the people.
Opposition to fascism, both in continental Europe and at home in the shape of Oswald Moseley's Black Shirts, was the issue which along with unemployment galvanised the left in Britain in the '30s.
Mass unemployment was the progenitor ot fascism, and it was the decision of the 1929-3 Boyelillictil ART historian Anthony Blunt, by appointment to the Queen. It's the fact that he betrayed her cl