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Public opinion under pressure Public opinion under pressure
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The defeat of the non-partisan ideal The defeat of the non-partisan ideal
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The breakdown of the civic strategy The breakdown of the civic strategy
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Conclusion: caught in the middle Conclusion: caught in the middle
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8 The quiet citizen silenced: the failure of political centrism, 1936–39
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Published:November 2011
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Abstract
This chapter concentrates on the period from early 1936 to the outbreak of the Second World War. These years marked a turning point for the League of Nations Union (LNU) generally and for the League and the conduct of foreign policy more broadly. The link between League membership and collective security was only very imperfectly understood by the general public. The LNU's non-party rule had always been vulnerable to criticism, but in the later 1930s its inability to bear close scrutiny could no longer be denied. The radicalisation of the youth wing set the LNU's centrist dilemma in sharp relief. The souring of relations between absolutist pacifism and liberal pacificism did not eliminate all space for common action. The period between the close of the Peace Ballot and the outbreak of the Second World War were years of disappointment and frustration for the League movement.
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