In 1956, watching the gadarene rush towards the disastrous Suez War, Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote to his friend Bernard Berenson of “The world of lower middle-class conservatives who have no intelligence but a deep belief in violence as a sign of self-importance; who hate foreigners, especially if they come from ‘inferior’ races; and who [are] gratified … More Trevor-Roper on Chauvinism