Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 THE SECOND BALDWIN GOVERNMENT AND THE UNITED STATES, NOVEMBER 1924–JUNE 1929
- 2 FOREIGN OFFICE PERCEPTION OF REPUBLICAN FOREIGN POLICY, NOVEMBER 1924–MAY 1927
- 3 THE ONSET OF NAVAL DEADLOCK, JUNE–AUGUST 1927
- 4 BELLIGERENT VERSUS NEUTRAL RIGHTS, AUGUST–DECEMBER 1927
- 5 THE PACT TO RENOUNCE WAR, JANUARY–JULY 1928
- 6 ARBITRATION, BELLIGERENT RIGHTS, AND DISARMAMENT, JANUARY–JULY 1928
- 7 THE CRISIS IN ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS, AUGUST–NOVEMBER 1928
- 8 THE AMERICAN QUESTION RESOLVED, NOVEMBER 1928–JUNE 1929
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - ARBITRATION, BELLIGERENT RIGHTS, AND DISARMAMENT, JANUARY–JULY 1928
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 THE SECOND BALDWIN GOVERNMENT AND THE UNITED STATES, NOVEMBER 1924–JUNE 1929
- 2 FOREIGN OFFICE PERCEPTION OF REPUBLICAN FOREIGN POLICY, NOVEMBER 1924–MAY 1927
- 3 THE ONSET OF NAVAL DEADLOCK, JUNE–AUGUST 1927
- 4 BELLIGERENT VERSUS NEUTRAL RIGHTS, AUGUST–DECEMBER 1927
- 5 THE PACT TO RENOUNCE WAR, JANUARY–JULY 1928
- 6 ARBITRATION, BELLIGERENT RIGHTS, AND DISARMAMENT, JANUARY–JULY 1928
- 7 THE CRISIS IN ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS, AUGUST–NOVEMBER 1928
- 8 THE AMERICAN QUESTION RESOLVED, NOVEMBER 1928–JUNE 1929
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I do not pretend to set myself up as a judge of the value of belligerent rights but I do say that what we are not in a position to enforce is of no value at all, and becomes merely a source of danger … So long as we maintain our rights so long will the Americans build. It is surely more important to put a stop to the race in armaments than to maintain belligerent rights which we can never enforce.
Wellesley, March 1928There is no doubt that the possibilities presented by a pact to renounce war captured public attention in Britain, the United States, and other countries for most of 1928. But the negotiation of the pact, with all of the work it entailed for the diplomats, really served to divert the public and the press in Britain and the United States from the more critical political differences that separated the two countries. Whilst the form of the renunciatory pact was taking shape in that series of published notes, the Baldwin government devoted itself behind the scenes to resolving the two main problems in Anglo-American relations: preventing the diminution of belligerent rights below a point consistent with Imperial security and further naval limitation.
The renewal of the Anglo-American arbitration treaty
The process began with the renewal of the Anglo-American arbitration treaty.
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- The Second Baldwin Government and the United States, 1924–1929Attitudes and Diplomacy, pp. 128 - 149Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984