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By R. M. Douglas

ISBN-10: 0714655236

ISBN-13: 9780714655239

The second one international battle used to be a watershed second in overseas coverage for the Labour celebration in Britain. This ebook strains how the British democratic left set concerning the activity of defining the foundations of a noticeably new overseas approach for the post-war global. the writer exhibits how the adventure of overall battle essentially reshaped the left's attitudes towards nationwide id and overseas policy.Breaking with the conventional bills that position chilly battle tensions on the centre of the Attlee government's actions within the speedy postwar years, R. M. Douglas's booklet presents a wholly new framework for reassessing British international coverage and left-wing techniques of nationwide id through the so much turbulent mement of Britain's sleek heritage.

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Long before then, however, Labour and the League had become embroiled in a fresh crisis, the effect of which was to destroy the latter as a significant factor in world affairs and compel the former to confront the reduction to meaninglessness of the fundamental principle upon which all its postwar external policy had been constructed. ‘Half a League Onward’ 39 CRISIS OF THE LEAGUE The irony of the Abyssinian crisis was that, in unmaking the League, it provided Labour with the basis of what would ultimately prove to be a devastating critique of the Conservative record on foreign affairs.

Nevertheless, the message of the Peace Ballot was sufficiently clear to impel the Conservatives to pledge ‘steady and collective resistance to all acts of unprovoked aggression’69 and to launch their general election campaign on a straightforward programme of support for the League. Not only, then, did both major parties contest the 1935 election with similar foreign policies, depriving Labour of one of the most potent weapons in its electoral arsenal, but the way was clear for the Tories to exploit Labour’s support for unilateral disarmament for the purpose of portraying themselves as the more enthusiastic defenders of the League’s authority.

D. 11 That a distinctive Labour programme on international government did ultimately emerge was in large measure due to the independent effort of four remarkable individuals: Hobson and Brailsford from the ILP, and Sidney Webb and Leonard Woolf of the Fabian Society. Here too, however, it is necessary to acknowledge the extent to which they were indebted to the pioneering work of Liberal intellectuals. In the autumn of 1914, a number of Liberal foreign policy theorists began a study of how the war might have been prevented, concentrating especially upon the extension and reinforcement of the system of 18 The Labour Party, Nationalism and Internationalism international arbitration established by the First Hague Conference in 1900.

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