Why England slept
John F. Kennedy (Author)
This volume: provides fascinating insights into the young mind and worldview of then-Harvard senior John F. Kennedy via his thesis, for which he'd toured Europe, the Balkans, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s; presents both a pointed indictment of British policy leading up to World War II as well as an examination of the weaknesses, merits, and pitfalls for democratic governments based on capitalist economies; features a new foreword written by Stephen C. Schlesinger, senior fellow at the Century Foundation in New York; author of Act of Creation: The Founding of The United Nations, winner of the 2004 Harry S. Truman Book Award; former director of the World Policy Institute at the New School (19972006); and former publisher of the magazine The World Policy Journal. (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 2016
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, California, 2016
xxvii, 152 pages ; 25 cm
9781440849909, 1440849900
929588770
Foreword
Foreword to the 1961 edition
Excerpts from the Foreword to the original edition
I. Period of disarmament policy : certain fundamental beliefs of the British regarding armaments
Influence of the financial crisis on armaments, 1931-1932
Influence of the General Disarmament Conference and the pacifist movement on British armaments, 1933
Beginnings of the shift from disarmament to rearmament, 1934
Influence of the General Election
final phase of disarmament
Ii. Period of rearmament policy : The launching of the Rearmament Program, 1936
Slowness of fulfillment of the program
The penalty
Munich, 1938
The aftermath
Britain awakens
III. Conclusion : America's lesson
Appendix
Bibliography
Originally published: Wilfred Funk, Inc.,1940