his 1972 memoir A Historian Looks at his World, was thoroughly unflattering. Among Petrie's journalistic posts was that of literary editor for the generally-conservative New English Review. He supported, with reservations, Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco and was a friend of a leading pro-Franco diplomat, the 17th Duke of Alba. Along with NER editor Douglas Francis Jerrold, Petrie formed in 1937 a group concerned to put the Nationalist case on the fighting in the Spanish Civil War. After 1945 he edited the Household Brigade Magazine, as well as writing regularly for the Illustrated London News and Catholic Herald, in addition to being co-editor (with Jerrold) of the New English Review'''s short-lived successor, English Review Magazine. During the late 1930s, Petrie championed Neville Chamberlain but subsequently was an adherent, again with reservations, of Winston Churchill. In 1941, he attempted unsuccessfully to be adopted as Conservative Party candidate for Dorset South. He was rejected, according to Andrew Roberts in Eminent Churchillians, because he was too closely identified with appeasement. He was appointed CBE in 1957. Works Two Essays in Spanish History, Hugh Egerton & Co., 1922. The White Rose: A Historical Drama in Three Acts, Hugh Egerton & Co., 1923. The History of Government, Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. Mussolini, Holme Press, 1931. The Jacobite Movement, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1932. Monarchy, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1933. The Stuart Pretenders – A History of The Jacobite Movement, 1688–1807, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933. The History of Spain, Eyre And Spottiswoode, 1934 [with Louis Bertrand]. Spain, Arrowsmith, 1934. The Letters Speeches and Proclamations of King Charles I, Cassell, 1935. The Four Georges A Revaluation of the Period From 1714 to 1830, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935. William Pitt, Duckworth, 1935. Walter Long and his Times, Hutchinson & Co., ltd. 1936. Lords of the Inland Sea: A Study of the Mediterranean Powers, L. Dickson Limited, 1937. Bolingbroke, Collins, 1937. The Stuarts, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937. The Chamberlain Tradition, L. Dickson, Limited, 1938. The Chamberlain Tradition, Frederick A. Stokes, 1938. Revised from the earlier English edition to incorporate current events. Louis XIV, T. Butterworth, ltd., 1938. The Life and Letters of The Right Hon. Sir Austen Chamberlain K.G., P.C., M.P, Cassel, 1939/1940 [2 volumes]. Joseph Chamberlain, Duckworth, 1940. Twenty Years' Armistice – and After: British Foreign Policy Since 1918, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1940. When Britain Saved Europe, the Tale and the Moral, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1941. George Canning,, Eyre