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The Great Depression,ed to a very large extent upon the maintenance of economic stability. For a long time there seemed a fair chance that this would happen, but on 24 October 1929 the financial world was horrified to learn of the ‘Wall Street Crash’ — an exceedingly widespread collapse of prices on the New York stock m

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Stresa and After,otential enemy against whom our long-term policy must be directed’.. A couple of years before, that question would have been almost unthinkable; but the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, supplied considerable quantities of information which suggested that the answer should be affirmative:

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Appeasement,ier changes in central Europe had spoken of Austria and Czechoslovakia almost in one breath. Both countries had belonged to the Habsburg Empire twenty years earlier; and while the Austrians were overwhelmingly German-speaking, there were large numbers of people of German language and culture in Czec

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Into War,rances given at the time of Munich were torn up less than six months later. There was no point whatever in seeking further assurances. Chamberlain saw the force of that as quickly as anybody. Just two days after the fateful ‘Ides of March’, he delivered a speech in Birmingham which may be regarded a

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Grand Alliance,o the war on Britain’s side. Although there were faint Russo-German rumblings over Romania in the summer of 1940, and rather more serious contentions over Bulgaria during the ensuing winter, it was still very far from certain that either party would regard such disputes as of vital importance, or as