ABSTRACT
This essay first appeared as a review of Llewellyn Woodward, British Foreign Policy in the Second World War (London, HMSO, 1962) in the New Statesman, 63, 1618 (16 March 1962). Woodward had taken great offence at Alan Taylor's review of the early volumes he had co-edited of Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-39 and had threatened legal action if Taylor's acknowledgement and thanks to Woodward were not removed from The Struggle for Mastery in Europe (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965), even though he had commented on an early version of part of the book. This review can hardly have been balm on raw wounds.
