By John F Kennedy
In June 1938, destiny British top Minister Winston Churchill released a booklet entitled “Arms and the Covenant”. It was once then released within the US in September 1938 as “While England Slept; a Survey of worldwide Affairs, 1932-1938”. It highlighted the United Kingdom's loss of army education. at the moment the warfare used to be looming yet had no longer began but. the bulk in England desired to remain out of the conflict and to depend in England's usual limitations. even if, the perspectives of Churchill finally prevailed and it used to be mostly at the power in this booklet that Churchill used to be elected leading Minister. In 1940, destiny President John F. Kennedy, then a pupil in his senior yr at Harvard collage, came across he didn't trust the research by way of Churchill of the explanations for the struggle, so he wrote a e-book with virtually an analogous name. Kennedy wrote this primarily as a critique and a rebuttal. In it, he in he tested the explanations for the UK's loss of education. Why England Slept through John F. Kennedy was once first released in 1940 and went via at the least 5 reprintings. It has develop into a unprecedented publication, nearly very unlikely to get, as a result of the popularity of the writer, till this reprinting via Ishi Press.
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By this reduction and limitation they sought to bring about one of the most fruitful preventatives of war, and to promote this reduction and limitation would be one of the League’s first duties. Thus there is a definite and important question raised as to whether this implied a contractual rela tionship—were the Germans (as they later argued and believed) only disarming on the condition that the other nations would disarm also? If the others did not, was the contract broken, and did the Ger mans have the right to rearm?
Yet in May, due to the shock of the Blitzkrieg, Congress rushed through appro priations of $5,000,000,000 which were cheerfully supported by the entire nation. Unfortunately for England, she got no sudden shock such as we did. Until Munich, there was a se ries of minor blows. As Hitler pointed out with some truth, in his cleverly worded letter to Daladier in August, 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the war, much of what he had done in Europe rectified wrongs that had been done at Versailles, and which should have been righted long before.
The Mu nich Agreement is discussed later in the book, but I mention it here to point out that America’s opinion and discussion on the Agreement was an oversimpli fication of the case. It was this poor condition of xxviii Introduction British armaments that made the “surrender” inevi table, which should have been the subject of the attack, rather than the Pact itself. This book is no apologia. I do not wish to white wash either the leaders or the public; nor do I, on the other hand, wish to oversimplify.
