Author: Matthew Anthony FitzsimonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Foreign Policy of the British Labour Government, 1945-1951
Author: Matthew Anthony FitzsimonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Foreign Policy of the British Labour Governments, 1945-1951
Author: Ritchie OvendalePublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Politics of Continuity
Author: John SavillePublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860914563
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Drawing on substantial new research, Saville focuses on the role of Ernest Bevin and his differences with Clement Attlee, particularly with regard to the Middle East. Countering the widely held view that Bevin sought accommodation with the Soviet Union, he reveals Labour's Foreign Secretary as a fervent ideologue, wholly in agreement with the deep-seated anti-Sovietism of his permanent officials.
The Foreign Policy of the British Labour Government 1945-1951
Author: Matthew Andrew FitzsimonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Foreign Policy of the British Labour Government 1945-51
Author: Matthew Anthony FitzsimonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
British Labour and the Cold War
Author: Peter WeilerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804714648
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A critical examination of the labour government and trades Union Congress in the immediate postwar period, this book argues that the Cold War was not just a traditional conflict between states but also an attempt to contain the growth of radical working-class movements at home and abroad. These radical movements, stimulated by the Second World War and its aftermath, seemed to policymakers within the Labour Party and the TUC to threaten British interests. The author contends that the Labour government never seriously considered following a socialist foreign policy, but instead sought to shape political developments throughout the world in ways most conductive to maintaining Britain's traditional economic and imperial interests. The government was able to follow established policies abroad and increasingly at home at least in part because British trade union leaders supported its attempts to prevent radicals and communists from coming to power in trade union movements inside Britain and throughout the world. In so doing, the trade union movement significantly extended its links with the state, in particular by cooperating with it in the sphere of foreign and colonial labour policy.
The Labour Government, 1945-51
Author: Denis Nowell PrittPublisher: New York : International Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Foreign Policy of the Labour Party
Author: James Ramsay MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
British Labour's Foreign Policy
Author: Elaine WindrichPublisher: Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press [1952]
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
British Labour Seeks a Foreign Policy, 1900-1940
Author: Henry WinklerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351322303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Since World War II, the British Labour Party has played a central role in dealing with complex international issues. Achieving real power in parliament for the first time, Labour governments have acted responsibly, and are usually in accord with the views of a substantial majority of the British people. Such was not always the case. In British Labour Seeks a Foreign Policy, 1900-1940, Henry R. Winkler synthesizes twenty years' study of the subject to offer the first full-scale treatment of the Labour Party's evolution in foreign affairs. The Labour Party came into existence at the beginning of the twentieth century to deal with the domestic problems of the working class, and it showed relatively little interest in foreign policy issues. In the aftermath of World War I, however, small groups of moderates made the case against the bitter rejection of the Versailles Treaty by many in the Labour Party and the trade union movement. Most of these argued that the League of Nations could be used to remedy some of the deficiencies of the settlement and that such a League must have the sanction of force if it was to be effective. During the 1930s, the failures of the League--in the Far East, Abyssinia, Spain, and Central Europe--compelled some of its advocates to conclude that, League or no League, the threat from Nazi Germany mandated support for a program of preparedness and rearmament even under the aegis of a hated National Government. The result, by 1937, was the final formal abandonment of many of the radical illusions of the twenties and thirties, as Labour reluctantly but formally assumed a posture that enabled it to share in the governance of wartime Britain and to take a key role in dealing with the international issues that emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War. This volume contains valuable lessons on the responsibilities of political parties as well as the pros and cons of specific policies. It is essential reading for understanding Britain's later stands as its leaders tried to adjust to Britain's diminished power in the post-World War II world.