The British policy of appeasement had barely time to develop when it was confronted with the most serious crisis of all that has occurred since the Armistice of 1918. Germany's expansion eastward demanded the liquidation of Czechoslovakia, commencing with agitation in Sudetenland.
The reader, is familiar with events of the last three months culminating in a crisis which, if unsolved, would have brought about a second world war.
Here the wishes of the British people, as revealed in the peace ballot, of avoiding war but being ready to enforce peace with arms, became a living reality, and this development of national policy has now become the most important factor for world peace.
An immediate consequence that looks promising is a withdrawal of Italian volunteers from Spain and a possible liquidation of the intermin-
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