The evolution of British disarmament policy in the 1920s
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The evolution of British disarmament policy in the 1920s
Pinter , St. Martin's Press, 1989
- : U.K.
- : U.S.
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliography and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study is concerned with the formulation and implementation of disarmament policy under the Baldwin government arising out of the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations in 1919. Despite the preoccupation with the problem by world leaders for 15 years until the breakdown of the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1934, the author suggests that the Conservative government of 1924-1929, and the national government of 1931-1935, despite making public commitment to a policy of disarmament, nevertheless significantly failed to grasp either the intricacies or importance of disarmament and were less than whole-hearted in their commitment to resolving the problem. He suggests Britain's policy was one of procrastination bordering on duplicity. The book is based on extensive material in the public records and the private papers of leading members of the foreign policy-making elite at the time.
Table of Contents
- The disarmament problem
- Britain and the disarmament problem
- the Conservative government and the disarmament problem
- the Geneva protocol and the Locarno Treaties
- the evolution of a policy
- international technical and political discussions
- naval disarmament
- the Geneva Naval Conference
- a reconsideration of policy
- renewed security negotiation and Anglo-French compromise
- final discussions.
by "Nielsen BookData"