 In many ways it was D. J. Davies's ideal of Welsh nationalism which was adopted after the Second World War, wrote John Davies.But it was Lewis's "brilliance and charismatic appeal" which was firmly associated with " in the 1930s.In 1936, in the midst of the turmoil of ", Lewis praised Adolf Hitler when he said "At once he fulfilled his promise — a promise which was greatly mocked by the London papers months before that — to completely abolish the financial strength of the Jews in the economic life of Germany."