1. Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin: A Biography (London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1969), 732.
2. Michael Howard, The Continental Commitment (London: Temple Smith, 1972), 113.
3. Middlemas and Barnes, Baldwin, 757. Similarly, Thomas Jones, a close friend and confidant of Baldwin’s, writes the following to a friend of his in America on March 1, 1934: “At any rate, rightly or wrongly, all sorts of people who met Hitler are convinced that he is a factor for peace.” See Thomas Jones, A Diary with Letters: 1931–1950 (London: Oxford University Press, 1954), 125.
4. G.M. Young, Stanley Baldwin (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976), 200.
5. C.T. Stannage, “The East Fulham By-Election, 25 October 1933,” The Historical Journal 14, no. 1 (1971): 183.