Raymond James Sontag (1897–1972) was an American historian of European diplomacy of the 19th and 20th centuries.
He served as editor in chief for the publication of captured German Foreign Office documents for the U.S. State Department.
In the east authoritarian rulers relied on a violent intense nationalism to gain and maintain power, suppress minorities, and stop reform.
Everywhere the non-Communist left found it hard to reconcile nationalism and social progress.
There was increasing discontinuity as the escalating crises baffled statesmen.