Title: British foreign secretaries in an uncertain world, 1919-1939 /
Authors: Hughes, Michael, 1961-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Great Britain. History; Great Britain Foreign relations; Great Britain Foreign relations; Great Britain Foreign relations administration History
Abstract: "The nature of international diplomacy and Britain's world role changed immeasurably after the end of the First World War, and this book shows how the various men who headed the Foreign Office during the inter-war years sought to operate in the shifting political and bureaucratic environments that confronted them."
Contents: Lord Curzon at the Foreign Office (1919-24) -- Ramsey MacDonald at the Foreign Office (1924) -- Austen Chamberlain at the Foreign Office (1924-29) -- Arthur Henderson at the Foreign Office (1929-31) -- Sir John Simon at the Foreign Office (1931-35) -- Sir Samuel Hoare at the Foreign Office (1935) -- Anthony Eden at the Foreign Office (1935-38) -- Lord Halifax at the Foreign Office (1938-39).