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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
At the beginning of the year Kennedy's book, Britain Faces Germany, appeared. The new, cynical opinion that he had formed of Hitler and the Nazis during his stay in Berlin now crystallised. Hitler had gone over to ‘gangsterism’ in foreign affairs; his demands had grown steadily greater. ‘It is probably true to say that he will always demand as much as he dares to demand.’ Thus, it was essential that Britain rearm and prepare to face war. If the Nazi system was to be made a scourge to humanity Britain would have to oppose it as it had opposed Napoleon, until his power to do harm was destroyed.
433 Jonathan Cape, 1937.
434 p. 132.
435 p. 144.
436 p. 174.
437 p. 173.
438 William (Kidston) McClure (1877–1939): joined The Times 1913Google Scholar; Rome Corrspdt 1915–20; British Embassy Press Officer, Rome 1921–39; kt. 1934.
439 Philip Cunliffe-Lister (1884–1972): Con. MP Hendon 1918–35; PPS Bd of Trade 1920–1; Sec. of Overseas Trade 1921–2; Pres. Bd of Trade 1922–4, 1924–9, 1931; Colonial Sec. 1931–5; Sec. for Air 1935–8; Min. Resident W. Africa 1942–4; Min. of Civil Aviation 1944–5; Chanc. Duchy of Lancaster 1951–2; Commonwealth Sec. 1952–5; changed surname from Lloyd-Greame 1924, cr. Viscount Swinton 1935, Earl 1955. See his I Remember (1948).Google Scholar
440 Paul Reynaud (1878–1966): Deputy 1919–24, 1929–40; Min. of Finance 1930–1, 1938–40, of Colonies 1931–2, of Justice 1932, 1938; condemned to life imprisonment by Vichy govt 1941; liberated 1945. See his In the Thick of the Fight 1930–45 (1955).Google Scholar
441 Although the records are not clear, it appears that Kennedy returned briefly to work at The Times following the publication of his book. Dawson noted in his diary on 14 July that he had been in the office ‘wrestling inter alia with the British proposals for continued non-intervention in Spain on wh. Leo Kennedy wrote his first leader in this month's “comeback”’. Dawson Mss. 41, f. 105, Bodleian Library; on 8 August that ‘I extracted a couple of leaders fr. Kennedy while he was still with us.’ ibid., f. 117; and, on 9 August that there was a crisis over the German threat to expel Ebbutt from Berlin: ‘I got Kennedy, who was surprisingly meek about this threat, writing about it …’ ibid., f. 118.
442 Robert William Seton-Watson (1879–1951): historian & publicist; founded New Europe in 1916Google Scholar; Masaryk Prof, of Central European History, U. of London 1922–5; Prof, of Czechoslovak Studies, Oxford U. 1945 9. See his Britain & the Dictators (1938).Google Scholar
443 Anthony Gustav de Rothschild (1887–1961): Chm., Industrial Dwellings Society; Pres., Norwood Home for Jewish Children.
444 William Norman Ewer (1885–1977): joined Daily Herald 1912; For. Ed. 1919–49.
445 Auckland Campbell Geddes (1879–1954): politician, diplomat & businessman; Union ist MP Basingstoke 1917–20; Amb. in Washington 1920–3; Chm. Rio Tinto Co. & Rhokana Corp.; kt. 1917; cr. Baron Geddes 1942.
446 Arthur Villiers (1883–1969): merchant banker; Dir., Barings Bank 1919–54.
447 George Kennedy A. Bell (1883–1958): Dean of Canterbury 1924–9; Bishop of Chichester 1929–58; Chm. Church of England Committee for non-Aryan Christians, 1937; Vice-Chm. Christian Council for Refugees, 1938; Chm. Central Committee of World Council of Churches 1948–54. See his Christianity and World Order (1940)Google Scholar. On 8 November 1934 he sent a brief letter to Kennedy to thank him for his assistance on the German Church issue: ‘I cannot tell you how much I appreciate what “The Times” has done, and how deeply indebted the whole Church must be, especially the German Evangelical Church, not only for the reports from Berlin and Munich but for the leading articles. The leading article in “The Times” of October 12th was an extraordinarily opportune article, and I am sure made a deep impression coming just at that moment.’ The letter has been inserted in the Journal.
448 Esme William Howard (1863–1939): entered dip. service 1885; mb. delegation to Paris Peace Conf. 1919; Amb. in Madrid 1919–24, in Washington 1924–30; kt. 1916; cr. Baron Howard of Penrith 1930. See his Theatre of Life (1935).Google Scholar
449 Johan P. Limburg-Stirum (1873–1948): Min. in Berlin 1927–37, in London 1937–9. See his Voor U persoonlijk (1986).Google Scholar
450 The Times archive. On 11 October Dawson had written in response to a letter from Kennedy: ‘I shall be very glad to publish your letter, though I do not quite agree with it. I am not convinced that we should settle everything by just handing back the German colonies. On the other hand I am all for letting them have colonies – particularly in West Africa – as part of a general settlement and to show them that we do not regard them in this respect as being outside the pale. I thought that Leo Amery's letter was characteristically deplorable…. Meanwhile our South African brethren are behaving with even more humbug than we; for they seem to be supporting the German claim to colonies in general, while at the same time making it perfectly clear that they are not prepared to part with German South West or indeed with Tanganyika, which they seem to regard as a sort of outpost of the Union. […]’