Index
Aiyar, Sivaswami, 117
al-Azhar, mosque, 192
Allenby, Edmund, , 192, 197, 200, 211, 222
on admission of Egypt to the League, 203
deportation of Zaghlul, 200
Egyptian independence, 200
Sennar dam, 208
Sudan dispute, 218
Baldwin, Stanley, 245
Basu, Bhupendra Nath, 52
Black and Tans, 135
Blanc, Alfred, 162
Blanc, Urbain, 164
Brazaville Conference, 272
Burma
admission to the League,
Cecil, Robert
Egyptian Mandate, 190
Imperial War Conference, 51
Irish border question, 155
Paris Peace Conference, 69
Round Table, 54
Chanak crisis, 123,
Churchill, Winston, 231
Chanak crisis, 152
as Colonial Secretary, 123
Iraq Mandate, 197
on South Africa, 28
Clayton, Gilbert, 240
Colonial Office, 60, 97, 113, 115, 123, 155, 180
Alfred Milner, 116,
Anglo-Irish Treaty, 173
on treaty signing, 98
Commonwealth, 7, 9, 11, 18, 38, 58, 108, 137, 142, 155, 160, , 175, 266, 269, 272, 275
Balfour Declaration, 178
Curtis on, 155
Erskine Childers on, 142
‘Problem of the Commonwealth’, 38
Relationship with Ireland, 144
Richard Jebb on, 100
Round Table on, 142
Van Hamel on, 107
Covenant of the League of Nations, 5, , 74, 82, 107, 119, 173, 272
Article 11, 219
Article 18, 170,
Burmese admission, 255
De Valera on, 130
Loophole,
on the Monroe Doctrine, 81
Croke Park massacre, 135
Dail Éireann
1919 Declaration of Independence, 126
de Valera’s withdrawal, 146
debate on Anglo-Irish Treaty, 170
League of Nations, 146
at the Paris Peace Conference, 127
United States, 126
de Valera, Eamon
Easter Rising, 84
Irish nationalism, 195
negotiating the Anglo-Irish Treaty, , 141
negotiations with Jan Smuts, , 191
opposition to admission of Ireland to the League, 157
rejection of the Anglo-Irish Treaty,
relations with India and Egypt, 130
Drummond, Eric, 114, , 224
as Ambassador to Italy, 242
Dominion representation on League Council, 106
on Egypt’s international status, 204
Irish application to the League, 146
Sudan dispute, 216
Duffy, George Gavan, 131
admission of Ireland to the League, 149
Department of External Affairs,
Paris Peace Conference, 127
Dumbarton Oaks conference, 259
First World War, 20, 272
Anti-colonial nationalism, 57
Dominion status, 16
end of the Veiled Protectorate, 182
on the imperial system, 35
India’s status, 273
MacWhite during, 147
Pan-Islamism, 183
Suez Canal during, 184
Watanists during, 186
Fitzgerald, Desmond
on the Halibut Treaty, 168
India’s status at the League, 166
registration of the Anglo-Irish Treaty,
France, 4, 54, 62, 86, 141, 159, 185, 262
Abyssinia, 242
Bilateral security treaty, 123
British colonial membership at the League, 82
Chanak crisis, 152
Egyptian Foreign Affairs, 198
Egyptian Protectorate, 185
first League Assembly, 112
Imperial rivalry, 27
l’Union Française, 272
Loi Jonnart, 90
Mandates, 238
Russian Civil War, 111
at the UPU, 56
Gandhi, Mohandas, 136, 139
1916 Lucknow Congress, 41
Congress delegation to Paris, 87
First World War, 31
Indian immigration, 66
Montagu-Chelmsford reforms, 101
at Suez, 236
at the UN, 263
Germany, 89, 141, 237, 245
Arms race, 32
departure from the League, 251
Egypt, 247
Fascism, 240
First World War South Africa, 35
King Farouk, 259
Treaty of Versailles, 186
Universal Postal Union, 57
Watan Party, 183
weapons to Ireland, 126
Greenland, 268
Hafez Pasha, Afifi, 245
Harding, Warren, 149
Het Volk, 29
Hitler, Adolf, 162
House, Edward. ‘Colonel’, 61
Imam, Hasan, 87
Imam, Syed Ali, 120
imperial conference
Ireland in the League, 144
imperial conference, 116, 153, 275
Burma, 254
disputes, 154
Egypt, 275
India’s autonomy at the League, 118
Inter se, 270
Ireland departure, 257
Irish Dominion status, 136
League policy, 123
Milner on, 122
Round Table on, 122
Southern Rhodesia, 254
Indian National Congress, 35, , , 103, 116, 121, 136
1918 Congress, 87
Dyarchy, 87
Jawharlal Nehru, 271
Montagu, 87
presence in North America, 102
Second World War, 258
Swaraj Party, 122
at the UN, 263
Indochine, 163
inter se, 22, 96, 106, 141, 263, 270
Dominion status,
Halibut Treaty, 168
Inter-state recognition, 110
and the League, , 159
at the UN, 264
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 157
Iraq, 3, 22, 180
admission of Egypt to the League,
admission to the League, 237
Anglo-Iraqi Alliance, 22
impact in Egypt, 238
Iraqi revolt 1920, 197
Neocolonialism, 237
Irish Free State, , 150, , 160, , , 211, 214, 224, 238, 250, 257, 274
1923 Imperial Conference,
Anti Treaty, 177
application to the League, ,
Armed forces, 151
Burmese application to the League, 254
civil war, 176
delegation to the League, 160
Department of External Affairs, 148
Dominion status, 176
foreign policy, 270
France on accession of Ireland to the League,
Habeas corpus, 149
implementation of the Treaty, 151
Irish Diaspora, 149
Jan Smuts on, 178
at the League, 178
Provisional Government, 149
relations with Canada, 148
Second World War, 258
Irish Volunteers, , 126
Ishii, Kikujirō, Viscount, 92
Iyer, Subramania, 53
Japan
Anglo-Japanese alliance, 118
Anglo-Japanese Treaty 1911, 91
departure from the League, 253
Dominion relations, 108
immigration, , 100
Korea, 95
Mandates, 117
Phillimore Report, 58
relations with India, 117
Russo-Japanese war, 184
Jebb, Richard, 100
Johnson, Hiram, 102
Kemal, Mustafa, 152
Kerr, Philip
Anti-colonial nationalism, 200
Curtis letter, 40
Imperial War Conference, 69
League of Nations, 54
Paris Peace Conference, 76
visit to India, 33
Komagata Maru incident, 31
Labour Party
1929 election, 231
Dyarchy, 94
Egypt’s admission to the League, 211
mission to Egypt, 199
Nile agreement, 232
Sudan, , 212
war in Ireland, 138
Lambert, Henry, 113
Lansing, Robert, 63
Lenroot Reservation,
Liberal Party, 153, 208
1906 General Election, 28
Ireland, 138
South Africa, 31
Viscount Grey, 60
William Stephenson Meyer, 119
Winston Churchill, 28
Liberal Party (India), 121
Lloyd George, David, 200
becoming Prime Minister, 43
Canadian admission to the League, , 100
Chanak crisis, 152
Imperial War Cabinet, 47
Imperial War Conference, 43
India, 50,
Irish Dominion League, 134
League of Nations, 59
Mandates, 61
negotiating the Anglo-Irish Treaty,
Ottoman Empire, 89
Paris Peace Conference, 69
Lloyd, George, 231
Assemblies Bill, 230
Governor of Bombay Presidency, 195
High Commissioner for Egypt, 222
negotiations with the Wafd, , 229
Lyautey, Hubert, 163
Mandates System, 2, , 22, 71, 77
A class, 180
Abyssinia, 242
C class, 117
Egypt, , 250
Palestine, 197
Sudan, 213
Turkey, 89
Massey, William, 69
Milner, Alfred
Boers, 28
Chinese immigration, 30
Colonial membership at the League, 122
Colonial Office, 116,
Dominions, 67
Egyptian independence,
India, 38
Kindergarten, , 66
League of Nations, 59
Round Table, 59
Treaty of Versailles,
Union of South Africa,
United States, 102
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 260
Montagu, Edwin, 49, 117, 119, 126
Egyptian independence, 195
France, 90
Indian Dominion status, 195
Indian Legislative Assembly, 95
Indian Moderates, 95
Indian National Congress, 87
Lionel Curtis,
mission to India, 50
Paris Peace Conference, 93
Treaty of Versailles, 96
Montreux Convention, 249
Nahas, Mustapha al-, 229, 234, 259
1930 Treaty, 246
accession of Egypt to the League, 253
Ismail Sidqi, 235
leadership of Wafd,
negotiations with Britain, 234,
negotiations with Italy, 243
Nile agreement, 232
reopening of Parliament, 235
Wafd leadership, 229
Permanent Court of International Justice, 112, 211
accession of Ukraine and Belorussia, 266
Intra-imperial disputes, 173
optional clause, 230
Persia,
Phillimore, Walter, 1st Baron
British voting power at the League, 55
Colonial membership, 58
committee,
report, 59
Poincaré, Raymond, 160,
Residency in Cairo, 205, 222
assassination of Lee Stack, 218
Gandhi, 236
incineration, 251
Ismail Sidqi, 236
League of Nations, 224
negotiations with the Wafd, 234
reoccupation of Egypt, 258
Wafd-Italy pact, 243
Round Table, 19, 68
Alfred Milner, 66
Dominion representation, 66
Dominion status, 273
France, 165
Jan Smuts, 47
Leo Amery, 61
Lionel Curtis, 66
Lloyd George, 144
Maurice Hankey, 115
Network, 32
Pamphlet scandal, 41
Richard Jebb, 100
Robert Cecil, 54
South Africa, 19
Rowlatt Acts, 94
Rushdy, Hussein Pasha, 184
Russian Empire, 271
Sarraut, Albert, 163
Sarwat Pasha, Abdel Khalek, 200, 203, 226, 230
Green Book, 226
negotiations with Chamberlain,
Nile agreement, 232
resignation, 229
Sastri, Srinivasa, 122
Indian National Congress, 121
Japan, 118
League of Nations delegate, 117
Liberal Party, 122
Moderates, 122
tour of Dominions, 118
Washington Naval Conference, 122
Seanad Éireann, 155
Shafi, Mian Muhammad, 35,
Sheehy-Skeffington, Hanna,
Siam, 71
Sidqi Pasha, Ismail, 182
Constitutional change, 235
invasion of Abyssinia, 245
negotiations with Britain, 236
negotiations with Italy, 243
Prime Minister, , 238
Sh’ab, 239
Sudan, 234
visit to Geneva, 223
Simon Commission, 274
Sinn Fein, 134, 136, 151, 200
Connaught Rangers Mutiny, 135
Declaration of independence, 126
Lionel Curtis on, 140
Smuts, Jan
1948 South African election, 258
admission of Germany to the League, 162
admission of India to the League, 125
Colonial membership at the League, 223
Commonwealth, 47
Imperial War Conference, 63
India at the Imperial Conference, 274
Lloyd George Cabinet, 48
loophole in the Covenant, 261
Maritz rebellion, 35
Minerva incident, 101
Mohandas Gandhi, 31
negotiations with de Valera,
Paris Peace Conference, 69,
status of South Africa, 99
at the United Nations, 263
war in Ireland, 132
South Africa, 32, 114, 137, 274
1948 Election, 258
admission to the Paris Peace Conference,
admission to UPU,
Commonwealth, 41
Home rule, 31
Imperial Conference, 33
Imperial Federation, 48
Inter se, 264
League membership, 3
League of Nations, 108
Minerva incident, 101
segregation, 11
Treaty of Versailles, 98
United Nations, 263
Stalin, Joseph, 260
Third British Empire, , 17, , 23, , 274
decolonisation, 68
Dominion status, 66
end of, 275
Lloyd George, 153
race, 179
Second World War, 259
South Africa, 18
Titanic, RMS, 97
Treaty of Versailles, 81, 113, 176
British Protectorate in Egypt, 186
French colonies, 160
German reparations, 162
United States rejection, 103
Tunisia, , 178
Ulster Volunteers, 126
United States, 32, 58, 92
admission of India and the Philippines to the UN, 260
admission of India to the League, 255
admission of Ireland to the League, 149
admission of Ukraine and Belorussia to the UN, 260
blocking admission of Communist states to the UN, 264
De Valera’s visit, 128
First World War, 65
Hague Conferences, 58
Halibut Treaty, 168
international recognition, 63
Irish diaspora, 126
League Council, 58
Mandates System, 89
military intervention in Haiti and Cuba, 75
Monroe Doctrine, 223
Montreux Convention, 250
Racial equality clause, 92
recognition of British Protectorate in Egypt, 187
relations with Irish Free State, 167
relations with the Dominions, 100
Warren Harding, 149
Wafd, 85, , , 225, 227, 236, 258, 273
1929 election, 234
Abdeen Palace Incident, 259
Blue Shirts, 241
boycott of the Milner Mission to Egypt,
Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference,
Electoral boycott, 235
Green Shirts, 241
insurgency, 235
Italian encroachment, 246
leadership of al-Nahas, 228
meeting with Gandhi, 236
negotiations for Egyptian independence,
negotiations with Italy, 243
opposition to, 235
political rivals, 235
relationship with the League, 215
resistance to the Assemblies Bill,
student protests, 241
voter demographic, 203
Washington Naval Conference, 122
Wilson, Woodrow
admission of Dominions to Paris Peace Conference, 70
Covenant of the League, 72
Indian Home Rule, 53
League of Nations Commission, 74
Mandates System, 89
Paris Peace Conference, 69
Philippines, 261
recognition of British Protectorate in Egypt,
United States opposition to Treaty of Versailles, 73
Wood, Edward, Viscount Halifax, 155
Yalta Conference, 260
Zaghlul, Saad, 221, 223, 229
Adli Pasha,
Allenby’s ultimatum, 218
British recognition of Egypt, 187
Coalition Government,
death, 228
deportation,
establishing the Wafd, 182
impact in India, 196
League of Nations, 214
negotiations in London,
Pan Islamism, 200
Sennar dam, 209
unilateral Declaration of Independence, 212
Ziwar Pasha, Ahmed, , 224
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