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44. Hanke, Luftkrieg und Zivilbevölkerung, 90.

45. Documents on International Affairs: 1933 (Oxford: 1934), 173–7, ‘British Draft Disarmament Convention, 16 March 1933: Article 34’. Carolyn Kitching, Britain and the Geneva Disarmament Conference: A Study in International History (Basingstoke: 2003), 59–60, 124–5; Dick Richardson, Carolyn Kitching, ‘Britain and the World Disarmament Conference’, in Peter Catterall, C. J. Morris (eds), Britain and the Threat to Stability in Europe 1918–1945 (Leicester: 1993), 38–41, 47–9.

46. Davies, ‘France and World Disarmament’, 771–2; Hanke, Luftkrieg und Zivilbevölkerung, 93–8.

47. Philip Noel-Baker, ‘International Air Police Force’, in Storm Jameson (ed), Challenge to Death (London: 1934), 206–9, 231; CCAC, Noel-Baker papers, 4/497, ‘Proposals for the Abolition of National Air Forces’, 1 Nov 1934; Brett Holman, ‘World Police for World Peace: British Internationalism and the Threat of the Knock-Out Blow from the Air, 1919–1945’, War in History, 17 (2010), 319–21; Michael Pugh, ‘An International Police Force: Lord Davies and the British Debate in the 1930s’, International Relations, 9 (1988), 335–51;

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49. Documents on German Foreign Policy: Series C: Vol 5 369–72, memorandum of the German Delegation to London, 2 Apr 1936.

50. Hanke, Luftkrieg und Zivilbevölkerung, 100–101.

51. ‘How Nearly Twelve Million Voted’, Headway, 17 (1935), 131. Martin Ceadel, ‘The First British Referendum: The Peace Ballot 1934–35’, English Historical Review, 95 (1980), 818–21, 828–9; Richard Overy, The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilization between the Wars (London: 2009), 229–35.

52. Nicholas Rankin, Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent (London: 2003), 53.

53. Angelo Del Boca, I gas di Mussolini (Rome: 1996), 76–7, 139–41, 148.

54. See Klaus Maier, Guernica 26.4.1937: Die deutsche Intervention in Spanien und der ‘Fall Guernica’ (Freiburg: 1975), 55–8.

55. Paul Preston, We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War (London: 2008), 263–4, 275–6.

56. CamUL, Needham papers, K102, Communist Party of Great Britain, ‘The Decisive Hour’, 2; Patterson, Guernica and Total War, 69.

57. Robert Stradling, Your Children Will be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Cardiff: 2008), 219.

58. Rankin, Telegram from Guernica, 128–9; CamUL, For Intellectual Freedom papers, A4, FIL statement, 31 Mar 1938.

59. Parliamentary Debates, Hansard, Ser 5, vol 270, col 632, 10 Nov 1932.

60. Susan Grayzel, At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge: 2012), 124–5, 130–31.

61. Alfredo Savelli, Offesa aerea: mezzi di difesa e protezione (Milan: 1936), 85–104.