Rival Foreign Office Perceptions of Germany, 1936-39.

Examines the charge that, especially during the period when Sir Robert Vansittart, was Permanent Under-Secretary, the Great Britain Foreign Office was anti-German in its orientation. Analysis of the role played by three consecutive ambassadors, Sir Horace Rumbold, Sir Eric Phipps and Sir Nevile Henderson in influencing the Foreign Office perception of Germany; Foreign Office's attitude to the anti-Nazi Germany opposition.