ABSTRACT
This essay is another review of Documents on German Foreign Policy, Series D, Vol. 1 (see previous essay). It was published in the New Statesman and Nation (17 December 1949). It is notable for a discussion of the Hossbach memorandum. His scepticism about the use of this memorandum as evidence of Hitler having clear, long-term plans for war was to be a controversial aspect of The Origins of the Second World War (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961).
