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British Foreign Policy Since The War (I)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2024

A. C. F. Beales
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‘England is an international burglar turned householder, and now wanting a strong police-force to protect his house full of swag.’

(Mr. Aneurin Bevan.)

‘One of the most serious counts against British statesmanship in the post-war years is that it failed to accept whatever risk there might have been, and that it used the prospective neutrality of the United States as a cloak for British reluctance to bear the responsibility of leading the nations towards the effective outlawry of war.’

(Mr. Wickham Steed.)

A war to end war. So they said in 1918, and at Versailles was planned a new settlement and a new start. This, they said, would involve a peace based on forbearance and sacrifice all round. But the peoples, said the statesmen, were not ready for such an enlightened peace. And so the pips had to be made to squeak, and in England there was a khaki election.

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Research Article
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Blackfriars , Volume 20 , Issue 230 , May 1939 , pp. 349 - 357
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Copyright © 1939 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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