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Lloyd George, David (1864–1945)
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This entry analyses the diplomatic style and skills of David Lloyd George, the British premier between December 1916 and October 1922, concentrating in particular upon the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 at which he was the principal British negotiator. It emphasizes his ingenuity and dexterity in conjuring agreements out of impossible situations but suggests that his sometimes unscrupulous pursuit of immediate solutions had the potential to jeopardize longer‐term success.
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This book is first and foremost a history of ruling-class diplomacy, but other factors are not ignored: the Bolsheviks, the Turks, and the insurgencies in Europe. This book provides detailed narrative and cogent analysis of the all that happened in Paris in 1919 and all that came out of it, with the aftermath of the peace process and the difficulty of avoiding war for twenty years. This book falls into two parts. Part 1 shows how the peacemakers and their successors dealt with the problems of a shattered Europe. The war had fundamentally altered both the internal structures of many of the European states and transformed the traditional order. The book shows that the management of the European state system in the decade after 1919, while in some ways resembling that of the past, assumed a shape that distinguished it both from the pre-war decades and the post-1933 period. Part II covers the 'hinge years' 1929 to 1933. These were the years in which many of the experiments in internationalism came to be tested and their weakness revealed. Many o the difficulties stemmed from the enveloping economic depression. The way was open to the movements towards étatism, autarcy, virulent nationalism, and expansionism which characterized the post-1933 European scene. The events of these years were critical to both Hitler's challenge to the European status quo and the reactions of the European statesmen to his assault on what remained of an international system.
The third edition of this acclaimed textbook on peace-making after the First World War advances that the responsibility for the outbreak of a new, even more ruinous, war in 1939 cannot be ascribed entirely to the planet's most powerful men and their meeting in Paris in January 1919 to reassemble a shattered world. Giving a concise overview of the problems and pressures these key figures were facing, Alan Sharp provides a coherent introduction to a highly complex and multi-dimensional topic.
This is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules on the Versailles Settlement, European and International History, Modern History, Interwar Europe, The Great War, 20th Century Europe, German History, or Diplomatic History, on either history courses or international relations/politics courses.
A study of the life of David Lloyd George with particular reference to his role at the Paris Peace Conference
This lively and original book re-evaluates Lloyd George's part, crucial but enigmatic, in the `lost peace' of Versailles. Each chapter examines a separate episode between 1919 and 1940. The first chapters review Lloyd George's protean role at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, his strategy of `making Germany pay' and the part played in it by Lord Cunliffe, ex-Governor of the Bank of England; the causes and consequences of Lloyd George's abortive guarantee treaty to France; and the emergence at the conference of the phenomenon of `Appeasement' -the `worm in the bud'. The final chapters reassess the two episodes commonly considered most damaging to Lloyd George's reputation: his visit to Hitler in 1936 and his bids to halt World War II after the fall of Poland. The author sees Lloyd George as both mercurial and consistent: brilliant and volatile in method, but constant in furthering Britain's interests through his personal diplomacy.
Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
- M. MacMillan
And Fortune Fled: David Lloyd George, the First Democratic Statesman, 1916–1922
- M. G. Fry
Letters to Curzon 10.12.19 and Simons 8.3.21 F/12/2/11 and F/53/3/8 in the Lloyd George Papers Parliamentary Archives London
- Lloyd George Papers