3. Appeasement and Pacifism from Fulham to Bridgwater, or ‘The Left Has Its Cake and Eats It’

1 Daily Mail, 17 October 1938, p. 13.

2 Michael Foot, Peter Howard and Frank Owen, Guilty Men (London: Victor Gollancz, 1940).

3 The Times, 24 October 1938, p. 11.

4 Daily Mail, 25 October 1938, p. 7.

5 ‘Tiberius Gracchus’ (pseudonym), Your M.P. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1944); ‘Cassius’ (a pseudonym for Michael Foot), The Trial of Mussolini (London: Victor Gollancz, 1944).

6 Quintin Hogg, The Left Was Never Right (London: Faber & Faber, 1945), p. 15.

7 Ibid., p. 52.

8 Quoted ibid., p. 53.

9 Ibid., p. 84.

10 News Chronicle, 6 March 1935.

11 House of Commons Hansard, 9 March 1936, col. 1842. Available at http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1936/mar/09/defence-1.

12 Quoted in ‘Mr Hogg returned’, Guardian, 28 October 1938. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1938/oct/28/past.

13 Daily Mail, 19 November 1938.

14 Quoted ibid.

15 Quoted in Daily Mail, 26 October 1933, p. 11.

16 Quoted ibid.

17 Quoted ibid.

18 Quoted in Julian Lewis MP, ‘Britain and the coming of war’, The Salisbury Review (April 1986). Article available online at http://www.julianlewis.net/essays-and-topics/2936:britain-and-the-coming-of-war-1932-82119-7.

19 Baldwin’s reply to the deputation of Conservative peers and MPs at the end of July 1936. Quoted in Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin: A Biography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969), pp. 947, 955.

20 Paul Addison, The Road to 1945: British Politics and the Second World War (London: Jonathan Cape, 1975).