154 The Twentieth Century (1914 - 7945)

prevented by capitalism, secret diplomacy, the armament
trade and other morally wrong phenomena.976 The crises of
the Hitler era have produced plenty of books some of which
deserve mention here. Gilbert's and Gott's somewhat one-
sided and rather helter-skelter survey, which also betrays
insufficient familiarity with the facts of European life, never-
theless has the virtues of passionate readability.977 Bassett
attempts to defend Britain's far eastern policy; at least it makes
a change to have some nice things said about Sir John Simon,
an obstinately undeserving recipient.978 The Austrian Anschluss
has been covered in a solid doctoral dissertation.979 Munich
remains an active issue. Of all those who have written about
it, Wheeler-Bennett remains the most reliable chronicler; the
preface to the second edition (1963) reviews the recent liter-
ature.980 Curiously enough, the one attempt to treat the matter
dispassionately, by an historian too young to recall it, suffers
from being so detached as to get the flavours wrong.981 For
the most incredible actor in the whole business, the blind and
conceited Henderson, Strauch does all that is required.982

*T* Henry R. Winkler, 'The emergence of a labour foreign policy in
Great Britain, 1918 - 1929', JMH 28 (1956), 247-58. - Kenneth
E. Miller, Socialism and Foreign Policy: theory and practice to 1937. The
Hague: NijhofF: 1967. Pp. viii, 301. Rev: EHR 84, 442f.

877 Martin J. Gilbert and Richard Gott, The Appeasers. L: Weidenfeld:
1963. Pp. 380. Rev: EHR 80, 217f. -See also a partial recantation:
Martin J. Gilbert, The Roots of Appeasement. Ibid. 1966. Pp.
xvi, 254. Rev: EHR 83, 43of.; HJ 10, 48if.

978 R, Bassett, Democracy and Foreign Policy: the Sino-Japanese dispute
i$$i -1933. L: Longmans: 1952. Pp. xxiii, 654,

979 Mary Antonia Walker, The Policy of England and France towards
the 'Anschluss* of 1938, Washington: Catholic U of America P: 1954.
Pp. 224. The review in Historische %sit$chrift> 180, iioff. interest-
ingly documents the survival of a grossdeutsck attitude*

*80 John W, Wheeler-Bennett, Munich: prologue to tragedy. L: Macmil-

lan: 1948. Pp. xv, 507. Rev: EHR 64, 382f.
881 Keith Robbins, Munich 1938. L: Cassell: 1968. Pp. 398.
*8S Rudi Strauch, Sir Nevtte Hmfarsm, britischer Botschqfier in Berlin von
J$39- Bonn: Rohrscheid: 1959. Pp. 384*