The dictators have won their power largely by an appeal, not to a suffering proletariat but to the forgotten 'little man' of the middle classes whom reformers in the past have unaccountably neglected. They have given him a sense of dignity and importance, and opened vistas for him...they have restored pride and confidence to large sections of a class which had begun to despair.-Pilgrim's Way, Tweedsmuir (1940)