Editing Appeasement (section)

==== Anglo-German Payments Agreement ====
The 1934 [[Anglo-German Payments Agreement]] stabilised economic relations between Britain and Germany, guaranteeing German interest repayments on bonds arising from [[World War I reparations]] and deepening British economic ties to Germany, particularly in the area of trade. [[Herbert von Dirksen]], the German ambassador to Britain, in 1938 characterised the agreement, alongside the 1935 naval agreement, as carrying "the swaying structure of foreign relations [between the UK and Germany] even in critical periods".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wendt |first=Bernd-Jürgen |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003212997-17/economic-appeasement-crisis-strategy-bernd-j%C3%BCrgen-wendt |title=The Fascist Challenge and the Policy of Appeasement |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=1983 |isbn=9781003212997 |page=168 |chapter='Economic Appeasement' – A Crisis Strategy|doi=10.4324/9781003212997-17 }}</ref>