Abstract
In 1965 in an article entitled 'Appeasement: the Rise of a Revisionist School', Donald Watt drew attention to the need for a much closer investigation of the actual, rather than the formal, functioning of the British foreign policy-making apparatus during the 1930s. Instead of a simple analysis going no further than the personalities and prejudices of a handful of principal characters he suggested that consideration should be given to such wider phenomena as the breakdown of both parliamentary and cabinet government, the power of the senior civil servants, the nature and expression of public opinion, and the loss of faith in democratic processes. Mr Watt also referred to 'Professor Arthur Furnia's somewhat
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