Old Diplomacy and New, 1876-1922: From Salisbury to Lloyd-George (Classic Reprint)

Austrian Archduke was the occasion of our being involved in a world-war; and although there is an obvious connection between unemployment at home and the condition of Continental Europe, the general public seems hardly to consider the vital importance to its daily life of Foreign A ffairs. Unskilled conduct of our Foreign Policy not merely at moments of crisis, but from month to month may bring ultimate unavoidable disaster: its skilful conduct brings respect, prosperity, and peace. This book is an attempt to study the personal methods of those who, in recent years, have directed the Foreign Policy of Britain; and to place in perspective before the general reader some of the chief events of that policy since the period when most history books end in the hope that the British public, insular and imperial, may be led to devote more attention to the study of Foreign A ffairs. For in the worlds politics there is no greater force than British public opinion. In the chapters on the entry into the war of Italy and Bulgaria, and in one or two of the later chapters, access has been allowed to the author to sources not available to the general public. Otherwise no claim is made to bring to light original documents. A consecutive account is given of events abroad which each attracted great attention at the moment, but the correlation of which is easily missed by people engrossed in home affairs.
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