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92. ibid., pp. 103–4.
93. Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald, p. 751. For a discussion of Macdonald on
Nazism, see pp. 748–51.
94. On Baldwin’s foreign policy, see Williamson, Stanley Baldwin, pp. 11, 47–48,
294, 301–2, 316–17; and Havighurst, Twentieth Century Great Britain, pp. 221–31,
241–42, 244.
95. see Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald; Williamson, Stanley Baldwin; dutton,
Sir John Simon; dutton, Anthony Eden.
96. dutton, Sir John Simon, pp. 1–14.
97. ibid., p. 39.
98. ibid., p. 171.
99. eden, Memoirs: Facing the Dictators, p. 25.
100. dutton, Sir John Simon, pp. 200, 237, 240.
101. tNa, CaB/24/241.
102. dutton, Sir John Simon, p. 170.
103. Gilbert, Sir Horace Rumbold, p. 379; see also Clemens, Herr Hitler, pp.
285–89, for a thorough discussion of the reaction to rumbold’s dispatch.
104. CaC, VNst, 1/10.
105. Kershaw, Making Friends with Hitler, p. 42.
106. the information in this paragraph is based on documents in tNa, FO
371/16721.
107. lukowitz, “British Pacifists,” p. 116. For a biography of sheppard, see scott,
Dick Sheppard.
108. lukowitz, “British Pacifists,” p. 121.
109. For a detailed and nuanced analysis of the National Peace Ballot, see Cea-
del, “the First British referendum.”
110. dutton, Sir John Simon, p. 201; Weinberg, Hitler’s Foreign Policy, p. 213.
111. tNa, CaB/24/242.
112. Quotations are from dutton, Anthony Eden, p. 35.
113. On eden’s first visit to Hitler, see eden, Memoirs: Facing the Dictators, pp.
68–80.
114. ibid., p. 139.
115. ibid., pp. 156, 158–59.
116. simon, Retrospect, p. 203.
117. For an excellent study of a leading member of the third group, lord lon-
donderry, see Kershaw, Making Friends with Hitler. On english Fascism, see Pugh,
Hurrah for the Blackshirts.
118. tNa, FO 371/21665, pp. 56–57.
119. Vansittart, The Mist Procession, p. 360.
120. Birkenhead, Halifax, p. 358.
121. Neville, Appeasing Hitler, p. 20.
122. ibid., p. 9; strang, “two Unequal tempers,” p. 109; on Henderson’s un-
pleasant character, see also Watt, “Chamberlain’s ambassadors,” p. 169. For more
details on Henderson’s career before his appointment to Berlin, as well as on his
family background, see strauch, Sir Nevile Henderson, pp. 13–26.
123. Henderson, Failure of a Mission, p. 13.