Abstract
It is a great irony in the history of international relations that David Davies, one of its early and more generous benefactors, and E.H. Carr, author of one of the discipline's classics, were so opposed to each other. Yet had Davies not founded the Woodrow Wilson Chair in Aberystwyth in 1919, it is unlikely that Carr (whose appointment Davies bitterly regretted) would have turned his mind to international relations and written The Twenty Years' Crisis. In the end however each man laboured under a great illusion: the Welshman that peace could be imposed on the world by force; and the Englishman that the planned economy, as developed in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, represented the future. Great believers in the idea of progress, each of these two eminent late-Victorians expended a fortune in the one case, and years of labour in the other, to justify and substantiate his own vision of the world.
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