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The main themes of British foreign policy include a conciliatory role at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, where Lloyd George worked hard to moderate French demands for revenge. [225] He was partly successful, but Britain soon had to moderate French policy toward Germany, as in the Locarno Treaties.
The main themes of British foreign policy included a leading role at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919–1920, where Lloyd George worked hard to moderate French demands for revenge on Germany. [2] He was partly successful, but Britain soon had to moderate French policy toward Germany further, as in the Locarno Treaties of 1925.
Bartlett, C. J. British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (1989) Bourne, Kenneth. The foreign policy of Victorian England, 1830–1902 (Oxford UP, 1970.) pp 195–504 are "Selected documents" Bright, J. Franck. A History of England. Period 4: Growth of Democracy: Victoria 1837–1880 (1893) online 608pp; highly detailed diplomatic narrative
The foreign policy of Canning, 1822–1827 (1925) British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898–1914 (1926–1938) with George Peabody Gooch. I. The end of British isolation; II The Anglo-Japanese alliance and the Franco-British entente; III. The testing of the entente, 1904-6; IV The Anglo-Russian rapprochement, 1903-7; V.
The United Kingdom and the League of Nations played central roles in the diplomatic history of the interwar period 1920-1939 and the search for peace. British activists and political leaders helped plan and found the League of Nations, provided much of the staff leadership, and Britain (alongside France) played a central role in most of the critical issues facing the League.
John Patrick Tuer Bury (30 July 1908 – 10 November 1987) was a British historian of modern France. [2] [3] He was born in Trumpington to Robert Gregg Bury and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he studied history. [2] He was elected to a Fellowship of the college in 1933, an office he held until 1987. [3]
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston played the dominant role in shaping British foreign-policy as Foreign Secretary (1830–1834, 1835–1841 and 1846–1851) and as prime minister (1855–1858, 1859–1865). [70] He served as Secretary at War in Tory governments for two decades, but switched over to the Whig coalition in 1830. The ...