‘There is the old well-known story about the man who, during the Lisbon earthquake of 1775, went about hawking anti-earthquake pills; but one incident is forgotten – when someone pointed out that the pills could not possibly be of use, the hawker replied: ‘But what would you put in their place?” ’ (L. B. Namier, In the Margin of History, p. 20). Carr, Edward Hallett Carr. The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: : An Introduction to the Study of International Relations (Second Edition Reprinted with a new preface in both hardcover and Papermacs). London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1981. p. 8.