“Mr. Ghandi and Herr Hitler were two hardly distinguishable specimens of the same species of foreigner… both of them superlatively exotic, and the average member of a British Cabinet may have reasoned in November 1937 that the guileless tamer of Ghandi [Lord Halifax] had at any rate ‘a sporting change’ of taming Hitler likewise. Were not both these political ‘mad-mullahs’, non-smokers, non-drinkers of alcohol, non-eaters of meat, non-riders on horseback, and non-practicers of blood-sports in their cranky private lives?” (Arnold Toynbee,
Survey of International Affairs, 1937, vol. I, p. 338)
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