Cabinet Decisions on Foreign Policy: The British Experience, October 1938-June 1941An original study of British foreign policymaking at the highest level, this book will be widely read by international relations specialists while historians will welcome the close-textured account of key episodes of the period 1938-41. It will also reinvigorate debates among political scientists on the nature of Cabinet government. |
Contents
Constructing the Polish Guarantee 1531 March 1939 | 18 |
The Soviet question AprilAugust 1939 | 48 |
Entry into war 13 September 1939 | 85 |
Reacting to the peace offensive October 1939 | 100 |
To continue alone? MayJuly 1940 | 146 |
War Aims and other committees | 188 |
Decisionmaking in Cabinet | 224 |
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Aims Committee alliance April argument Attlee Britain British Foreign Policy British government British policy Cabinet government Cabinet meeting Cadogan Diaries Cambridge Chamberlain and Halifax Chamberlain Papers Chatfield Chiefs of Staff Churchill Churchill's colleagues Confidential Annex crisis Dahlerus DBFPIII decision decision-making declaration Diary entry Dilks diplomacy discussion Dominions draft Duff Cooper Europe Foreign Office Foreign Policy Committee foreign policy executive Foreign Secretary France French German Greenwood Halifax and Chamberlain Hankey Harold Nicolson Hickleton Hickleton Papers Hitler Hitler's speech Hoare Hore-Belisha Ida Chamberlain important Inskip issue Kingsley Wood letter to Ida London Lord Macmillan March ment military negotiations Nicolson October peace offer Poland policy-making Polish Guarantee political position possible PREM Prime Minister Prime Minister's problem proposals question R. A. Butler reply Roumania Russia S. S. Wilson Second World Second World War September 1939 Simon Soviet Union statement telegrams University Press USSR War Cabinet
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