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and then retreating into isolation from foreign affairs.
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The English, of course, couldn't go that far,
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but their belief that Germany was falsely accused
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made it easy to permit and to justify
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Hitler's violations of the treaty.
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Feelings of guilt helped support a policy of disarmament,
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unpreparedness, and appeasement.
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The English poet W.H.Auden,
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responding to Hitler's invasion of Poland in a poem called,
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"September 1, 1939,"
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A poem that was subsequently deleted
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from collections of his poetry,