Abstract
As Europe edged towards war in August 1939, a leading diplomat eschewed the obvious targets for blame and instead indicted the press. This was an idiosyncratic opinion, but Sir Nevile Henderson was British ambassador to Berlin, had access to the Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the German leader Adolf Hitler and, on the face of it, was in a good position to judge the matter. It may be presumed that if he had to corroborate his assertion he would have provided evidence. So what was that evidence? The aim of this article is to discover whether British newspapers were actively undermining peace efforts in the summer of 1939? Were newspapers challenging the British Government's Foreign Policy? Or was Henderson's claim an isolated opinion that was based on prejudice rather than fact?
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