The Road to War, 1937-1939 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Road to War, 1937-1939 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The most important element in European foreign relations throughout the 1920s and during the early 1930s was the desire at all costs to avoid another war. There was among European statesmen a widespread conviction that another war would be infinitely more destructive than the Great War had been, and any alternative seemed preferable. 1. Hitler’s War The First World War revealed that Germany was the most powerful state in Europe. In the east, the…