Abstract

Few historians of British foreign policy in the 1930s have resisted the temptation to comment upon the role played by The Times during that decade in the support the newspaper offered for the official policy of the appeasement of Germany. Far less remarked upon has been the same newspaper's advocacy of the appeasement of the Soviet Union in the 1940s, as the harmony of the wartime Grand Alliance gave way to the discord and antagonism of the early years of the Cold War. The relative neglect of this second phase of commitment by The Times to policies of appeasement in Europe is surprising for a number of reasons, three of which I should like to pursue in this article.

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