Search Results - "Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century"
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The elusive balance: British foreign policy and the French entente before the First World War
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…Reviewing the recent course of British foreign policy, the head of the Foreign Office's Western Department noted of the Anglo-French entente in 1907 that it…”
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Anglo-French relations from Versailles to Locarno, 1919-1925: The quest for security
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…The European international balance of power in the aftermath of the First World War was very different from that of 1914. Italy's status as a great power…”
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Anthony Eden, the Foreign Office and Anglo-French Relations, 1951-1954
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…In the early 1950s, two of the most urgent Cold War problems confronting the western alliance were the attainment of a West German contribution to European…”
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Britain and France at war, 1914-1918
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…Much recent writing on the First World War has been designed to show, as David French has put it, that 'at least for the policy-making elite the war did make…”
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The Conservative party and the Anglo-French entente, 1905-1914
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…Most studies of Edwardian foreign policy centre on the rôle of Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, the Liberal Government, and leading figures in the…”
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The most important of the Western nations: France's place in Britain's post-war foreign policy, 1945-1949
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…Speaking to his new advisers in the Western Department of the Foreign Office shortly after becoming Foreign Secretary in the summer of 1945, Ernest Bevin…”
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France's economic and financial crisis: The view from the Foreign Office, the Treasury and the Bank of England, 1936-1939
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…By 1929 France had recovered from the economic and financial turmoil from which it had suffered in the immediate aftermath of the First World War and its…”
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The poor relation: Spain in Anglo-French relations, 1898-1914
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…The entente cordiale was not nearly as free of discord as its name suggests. This was particularly apparent in Anglo-French reactions to Spain's renewed quest…”
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From entente to alliance: Anglo-French relations, 1935-1939
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…Before September 1939 Britain and France both sought to come to terms with the profound challenge presented by the rise of German fascism, having little in the…”
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The Cold War, European Community and Anglo-French relations, 1958-1998
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…No set of bilateral relations is ever only bilateral, and this is certainly true of the period under consideration here. Anglo-French relations between 1958…”
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From Dien Bien Phu to Evian: Anglo-French imperial relations, 1954-1962
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…By 1954 major changes to the importance of empire within British and French domestic politics were well underway. In his study of the impact of decolonisation…”
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Britain, France and the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…The aim of this essay is not to examine all aspects of the intervention of Britain and France in Russian affairs between the Bolshevik Revolution of November…”
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The search for disarmament: Anglo-French relations, 1929-1934
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…The years 1929-34 marked a watershed in Anglo-French relations in the inter-war period. The close cooperation of the Chamberlain-Briand years dissolved under…”
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Introduction
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…This collection of essays investigates the multifaceted diplomatic relationship between France and Britain in the twentieth century. Rivals and allies-and the…”
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Lloyd George, Clemenceau and the elusive Anglo-French guarantee treaty, 1919: 'A disastrous episode'?
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919 remains etched in popular memory. Not so the signing earlier the same day of the Anglo-French guarantee…”
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Entente broken and renewed: Britain and France, 1940-1945
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…On September 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany. The two countries settled rapidly into the pattern which their alliance had taken over three…”
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The failure of the new entente cordiale, 1947-1950
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…The question why Franco-British cooperation was not developed further after they signed the Treaty of Dunkirk on 4 March 1947, is clearly an important one. The…”
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Britain, France and the League of Nations in the 1920s
Published in Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century (2000)“…The fateful consequences of the inability of Britain and France to work together effectively either at the Paris peace conference or in the enforcement of the…”
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