Foreign Policy in the Labour Party Manifestos, 1945–1997: What Primacy?
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2010

'Let Us Face the Future', the 1945 Labour Manifesto proclaimed on its cover, a bold statement compared with the Tories' pallid offering, Mr. Churchill's Declaration of Policy to the Electors. But then the Conservative Manifesto's first three chapters were entitled 'Britain and the World', 'The British Empire and Commonwealth', and 'Defence', indicating their priorities.' In contrast, the first heading in Let Us Face the Future read: 'Victory in war must be followed by a prosperous peace' and For