Communism continued to haunt Europe as a spectre - a name men gave to their own fears and blunders. But the crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the spectre of Communism.
Source: The Origins of the Second World War, ch. 2 (1961).
-- A J P Taylor, (Mar 25 1906-1990), English historian; Alan John Percivale Taylor wrote English History, 1914-1945 and The Origins of the Second World War, 1961.