ABSTRACT
British Government was in any degree responsible for this condition of strain, and whether it did all that it might have done to alleviate the strain and to avert the peril. In the autumn of 1931, when the Second National Government assumed power, danger threatened from two quarters. As soon as he came to power, Hitler began to rearmdefying the Treaty of Versailles, but able to argue that since "equality of rights" had been promised and no attempt had been made by the other Powers to bring it about by their own disarmament, Germany was entitled to rearm. There has seldom been a more unanimous expression of public opinion, and even the omnipotent National Government had to give way before it. Under the National Government, it has been very difficult to determine what the policy of Britain under the National Government actually was and this uncertainty has unquestionably contributed to produce the confusion of international politics.
