ABSTRACT
It is important to understand some of the basic attitudes which determined the Left approach to foreign affairs during the 1930s.1 To a great extent the Left based its policy, or rather its propaganda, on attitudes formed during the First World War and made little concrete contribution to the hesitant and confused development of Labour’s foreign policy. On the other hand, it did as much as the Labour Party to arouse public indignation against the policy of the National Government. The way in which that policy was presented to the public aroused the opposition of the Left and of the entire Labour movement, the Liberal Party and a section of the Conservative Party itself. In the denunciation of this policy its opponents were necessarily negative. Yet on the Left there were common attitudes to war and foreign policy.
