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Originally posted by Not Bob
I think that what the Spankster meant was that the large and vocal anti-war movement in France and Great Britain (there was an Oxford petition or resolution or something in which students vowed that they would not go to war for King and Country under any circumstances) emboldened Hitler and Mussolini in the mid to late 1930s. Lots of people think that if the western allies done anything when the Germans violated the Treaty of Versailles by occupying the Rhineland, building an air force, etc., there would not have been a war.
Churchill talks about this in "The Gathering Storm." For example, the anti-war sentiment in Britain meant that defense spending was continually being reduced even as the Germans started rearming.
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Ah, ok. I thought he was talking about a US peace movement, for some reason. Probably the drugs.
