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SIR: Baron Alder in his review (January-February 2006) of Hurrah for the Blackshirts! by Martin Pugh repeats a claim by Pugh that the high-profile figures of the pre-war appeasement period included the pro-Nazi historian Sir Arthur Bryant.
Refutation of the pro-Nazi slur comes from the pages of Bryant's English Saga 1840 to 1940, a work which records not only the triumphs and tribulations of the English people, but also their blunders in Ireland. Finally, in a chapter titled "Crumbling Heritage", following the collapse of hopes of a better life after 1918 and of the non-delivery of permanent peace by the League of Nations, comes the paragraph:
Yet there was nothing left for an Englishman but to fight and beat
the enemy, cost him what it might. He had at least done his
best to keep the peace. His cause, however tragic, was a noble one: he was fighting against evil things and a cruel ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Sir Arthur Bryant.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)