Title: Guarantee of peace : the League of Nations in British policy, 1914-1925 /
Authors: Yearwood, Peter J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: League of Nations Great Britain History.; International organization.; Security, International History.; Great Britain Foreign relations; Great Britain Politics and government
Abstract: This new look at the League of Nations is not an attempt to realise an idea, but as an element in the day-to-day conduct of Britain's foreign policy and domestic politics during the period 1914-25.
Contents: The League in British Policy -- 'Give Pause to the Hardiest Aggressor': A Guarantee of Peace, 1914-1917 -- 'Much More than an Organization to Prevent War': Beyond the guarantee of peace, 1917-1936 -- 'The Key to the Peace was the Guarantee of the Peace': The Creation of the League, 1918-1919 -- 'In Default of an Immediate Realization of a True League of Nations': The First Years of the League, 1919-1921 -- 'A Genuine and Energetic League of Nations Policy': Lord Robert Cecil and the Treaty of Mutual Assistance, 1922-1923 -- 'Upholding the Covenant and the Public Law of Europe': The Corfu Crisis, 1923 -- 'The Wiser and Wider Security at which we are Ourselves Aiming': The Labour Government and the Geneva Protocol, 1924 -- 'The Real Dividing Line between the Years of War and the Peace that is to Follow': Towards Locarno, 1924-1925.