IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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· Socialist Challenge No. 123, 29 November 1979 · p. 9 of the scan · 490 words

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Among the first British troops to march into Germany towards the end of the Second World kavmond williams. the writer, who had become a member of the CP while he was a student at Cambridge University Williams recalls that the Nazi SS officers he to detain liberated concentration camp said to him: 'Why did we ever get into this ridiculous war with each other when it is so clear who the common enemy is?' were in Berlin). Williams reported these remarks to his army superiors, who told him: "They could be right, old boy.

Peace with honour Bourgeois historians are happy to discredit of appeasement pursued by Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who returned from a meeting with Hitler in Munich in September 1938, waved a piece of paper, and 'Peace with honour. I believe it is That was six months after the Wehrmacht goose-stepped into Austria announcing: CIn Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer.' Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, had attempted to prevent the invasion by trying to hold a plebiscite on Austria's right to self-determination. British ambassador in Berlin described this as an 'ill-conceived and ill-prepared folly', which happened to coincide with the Führer's view.

Foreign Secretary over the appeasement policy, estimating that no more than thirty of the four hundred Tory MPs shared his view.

The bourgeois appeasement was a genuine but misguided determination to maintain 'peace' in Europe. It was nothing of the kind. Even after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland; many of these politicians hoped that Nazism would be a bulwark against Bolshevism. This was when Anthony Eden resigned as historians tell that politicians opposed particularly Eden and was for the competition The British establishment Italy and with the plaise Churchill and 'Winnie? had talked of the "foul His response tó the 1926 fo cut unemployment

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