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King and Country: That III-Starred Resolution

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On 9 February 1933 - only days after Hitler came to power in Germany - the Oxford Union voted ' That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.'
* I hope you do penance every night and every morning for that ill-starred resolution.' wrote a correspondent to the Union President. ' If the Germans have to be knocked out a second time it will be partly your fault.'
Martin Ceadel talks to the men of 1933 - Max Beloff. David Graham. Frank Hardie. Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone and Lord Longford-and re-assesses the debate's importance in the sequence of events which led to war.
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester

Contributors

Talks:
Martin Ceadel
Unknown:
Max Beloff.
Unknown:
David Graham.
Unknown:
Frank Hardie.
Producer:
Christopher Graham
Source: Radio Times

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