University Extension Lectures 1918-1937. Post-War Europe

Any way, at the end of the War in almost every European State, few questioned the views of the politicians who had seen the country through the war. [...] Little did the majority of the leaders of the European political odd then bother about telling the people that [...] might have been responsible for the [...] and for the rising omit the question struck the first was of purely academic interest. [...] the Allied Powers claimed in have food for the principle of upholding the democratic doctrine : they claimed that the masses even in the enemy countries did not Want the holocaust : it was the autocratic rulers who had thrust the war upon Europe for the purpose of self- aggrandisement. [...] lack of close co-operation between the Civil Servants and the elected representatives of the people ; secondly, lack of the will to govern ; too) much energy was wa:;ted ill internal strifes,* in coping with the communists and unorthodox socialists ; the capitalists in Germany were not happy over the Social Democratic regime though the regime did its best to ',Locate the Big Trusts. [...] At the time of the Loarno Pact which had (towards the close of 1925) [...] The Eastern Frontier of France, no great importance had been attached to the Polish request for an Eastern [...] safeguarding her frontiers the Polish question did not even get the chance of adequate.