The historiography of Britain in the 1930s has only recently begun to change our picture of this period1 which hitherto had shown the country preoccupied with issues of foreign policy, war and peace, fascism, communism and the Spanish Civil War. No doubt this impression was created because the very people who were concerned about these external issues, external that is to British politics and the interests of the majority of her population, were also the first authors and historians of the period. The official communist answer to appeasement after 1935 was the combined policy of a Popular Front at home and collective security abroad, that is, in line with the French example of coalition government by all anti-fascist parties supported by anti-fascist treaties between Britain, France and the Soviet Union. The driving force behind the Club was Victor Gollancz who made it a success in organisational as well as eventually in financial terms.