an illusion to differentiate between the German right, centre, or left, or the German Catholics or Protestants, or the German workers or capitalists. They are all alike, and the only hope for a peaceful Europe is a crushing and violent military defeat followed by a couple of generations of re-education controlled by the United Nations. He also wrote that "the other Germany has never existed save in a small and ineffective minority". On other occasions, he made similar remarks: We didn't go to war in 1939 to save Germany from Hitler ... or the continent from fascism. Like in 1914 we went to war for the not lesser noble cause that we couldn't accept a German hegemony over Europe. The British historian R. B. McCallum wrote in 1944: "To some, such as Lord Vansittart, the main problem of policy was to watch Germany and prevent her power reviving. No one can refuse him a tribute for his foresight in this matter." Honours Vansittart was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1906, a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1920, a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1927, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1929, a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) in 1931 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 1938. He was sworn into the Privy Council in 1940 and raised to the peerage as Baron Vansittart, of Denham in the County of Buckingham on 3 July 1941. Literary career Vansittart was also a published poet, novelist and playwright. This is a partial list of his literary works: Plays Les Pariahs (1902) The Cap and Bells: a comedy in three acts (1913) Dead Heat: a comedy in three acts (1939) Novels The Gates: A Study in Prose (1910) John Stuart (1912) Pity's Kin (1924) History Black Record: Germans Past and Present (1941) Poetry Songs & Satires (1909) Foolery: a comedy in verse (1912) The Singing Caravan, a Sufi Tale (1919) Tribute (1926) Green and Grey: Collected Poems (1944) Autobiography Lessons of My Life (1943) The Mist Procession (1957), Hutchinson & Co. London (published posthumously with a prefatory note by his wife Sarita) Film career Vansittart was a close friend of producer Alexander Korda. He helped Korda with the