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Presidential Address: The Foundations of British Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

R. W. Seton-Watson
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I fear that my address to-day will inevitably disappoint expectations, for I have no state secrets to offer you, and in the time at my disposal I obviously cannot hope to cover so vast a field. A more modest, and therefore more correct, title would be ‘Some Aspects of Foreign Policy’, planned merely in outline, but capable of evoking and sustaining fuller discussion in parallel fields.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 29 , December 1947 , pp. 47 - 67
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1947

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page 52 note 1 It is too often forgotten that though Edward III had a navy, and controlled the Narrow Seas for his French adventures, the fifteenth century was one of eclipse, in which sea power rested in the hands of the Germanic Hanseatic League. Only as this unique confederacy declined did English naval power assert itself.

page 59 note 1 The Truth about the Peace Treaties, i. 265.Google Scholar

page 61 note 1 The reader will find in the final chapter of vol. iii of the Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy a unique and enlightening account of Foreign Office evolution by Mr. Algernon Cecil.