What started on September 1, 1939?
September 1, 1939 book "A Low, Dishonest Decade: The Great Powers, Eastern Europe, and the Economic Origins of World War II, 1930-1941" (2002) in which he argues that "economic rivalries ... formed the essential and primary cause of World War II." September 1, 1939 "September 1, 1939" is a poem by W. H. Auden written on the occasion of the outbreak of World War II. It was first published in "The New Republic" issue of 18 October 1939, and was first published in book form in Auden's collection "Another Time" (1940). The poem deliberately echoes the stanza form of W. B. Yeats's "Easter,
September 1, 1939 must either love each other, or we must die." In 2001, immediately after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the poem was read (with many lines omitted) on National Public Radio and was widely circulated and discussed for its relevance to recent events. Charles T. Matthews from the University of Virginia commented on the prescience of the 1939 poem is reflecting the cultural sorrow experienced in response to 11 September by quoting the last two couplets of Auden's third stanza of the poem: The American historian Paul N. Hehn used the phrase "A Low, Dishonest Decade" for the title of his