who was Neville Chamberlain, and what were the circumstances surrounding his and Europes fate?
Europe, wracked by the Depression, was in poor shape to meet the challenges posed by Stalin and Hitler. The Western Powers were absorbed with their own affairs. The USA was absent. The states of East Central Europe were weak and divided. At the very time that the idea of collective security was mooted, Europe’s attention was diverted by the Civil War in Spain. – Norman Davies, “Europe – a History” (There’s that bloody context thing again. That bloody nuance thing (it’s a French word, isn’t it?). Real (republican) men don’t fiddle about with such nonsense! Even the word context sounds somewhat effete and European!) And where-o-where did that Depression originate? Much as the current financial crisis, it originated on Wall Street. We learn about the Great Depression, and about the Okies and the Dustbowl. We often forget that it was runaway inflation that allowed a certain A. Schickelgruber to come to power. In Germany, it got to the point that people were taking wheelbarrows when they we
