The despair reflected what Finlay (1994) describes as a widespread sense of hopelessness that prepared local business and political leaders to accept a new orthodoxy of centralised government economic planning when it arrived during the Second World War.
Finlay (1994) reflicte a desesperanza como o sentimento xeneralizado que preparou ós líderes empresariais e políticos a aceptar a nova ortodoxia de goberno centralizado cando chegou a Segunda guerra mundial.