0 happening before a war, especially the Second World War:
the pre-war years
However, more recent studies on the subject fail to recognise the existence of a pre-war international slump, and some of them utterly deny it.
Overall membership, although it had fallen back some way from the wartime peak, was still more than double the highest pre-war levels.
Admittedly, the notion of the economist as counselling individuals was commonplace in pre-war economics.
Women were excluded from inheritance as well as asset formation under the pre-war civil code, and such gender discrimination has been perpetuated.
Such was hardly the case in pre-war resumptions.
The role of the international community is most instrumental in the pre-war period.
Official policy bore some resemblance to pre-war practices of deportation.
This pre-war antipathy has been one of which historians, too, have been well aware.