In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. … - Niall Ferguson

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Niall Ferguson

In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed would have been the 1914 combination of Britain, France and Russia. Indeed, if such an alliance had acted decisively to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hitler might even have been overthrown by his own military. But it was not to be.

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