Personalities, War and Diplomacy by T.G. Otte C. Pagedas

Author:T.G. Otte, C. Pagedas [T.G. Otte, C. Pagedas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781135253615
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2014-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1.

See the following: Brian McKercher, ‘The Last Old Diplomat: Sir Robert Vansittart and the Verities of British Foreign Policy 1903–1930’; Charles Morrisey and Michael Ramsay, ‘Giving a Lead in the Right Direction: Sir Robert Vansittart and the Defence Requirements Sub-Committee’; Michael Roi, ‘From the Stresa Front to the Triple Entente: Sir Robert Vansittart, the Abyssinian Crisis and the Containment of Germany’; Simon Bourette-Knowles, ‘The Global Micawber: Sir Robert Vansittart, the Treasury and the Global Balance of Power 1933–1935’; and John Ferris, ‘Indulged in All Too Little?: Vansittart, Intelligence and Appeasement’, all in Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1995), pp. 1–38, 39–60, 61–90, 91–121 and 122–75.

2.

Lord Vansittart, The Mist Procession: The Autobiography of Lord Vansittart (London: Hutchinson, 1958).

3.

Ian Colvin, Vansittart in Office: The Origins of World War II (London: Gollancz, 1965). Norman Rose, Study of a Diplomat: Vansittart (London: Heinemann, 1978).

4.

Vansittart, The Mist Procession, p. 416.

5.

Minute by Vansittart, 16 April 1931. PRO F0371/15771 W4251/46/41. See also Douglas Little, Malevolent Neutrality: The United States, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 65.

6.

Little, Malevolent Neutrality, p. 64.

7.

Vansittart to Sir E Harding (Dominions Office), 8 May 1931. P[ublic] R[ecord] O[ffice] FO 371/15772 W5330/46/41.

8.

Sir R Graham (Rome) to Arthur Henderson (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), 22 May 1931. Minute by Vansittart, 28 May 1931. PRO FO 371/15773 W6087/46/41.

9.

For communist activity in Spain at this time see Little, Malevolent Neutrality, pp. 72–3.

10.

Sir George Grahame (Ambassador at Madrid) to Vansittart, 29 March 1932. Vansittart to Grahame, 5 April 1932. PRO FO 371/16511 W3959/3959/41. Grahame surmised that the Spanish Government was largely composed of intellectuals who were inclined to be favourably disposed towards France for cultural and political reasons.

11.

Grahame to Simon, 5 May 1933. PRO FO 371/17426 W5425/116/41.

12.

Vansittart to Grahame, 2 June 1933. PRO FO 371/17426 W5425/116/41.

13.

See Little, Malevolent Neurality, pp. 99–110.

14.

See minutes by C.N. Stirling, 16 Oct. 1934, and Orme Sargent, 19 Oct. 1934. PRO FO 371/18596 W9132/27/41

15.

Grahame to Foreign Office, 21 Jan. 1935. Minute by Vansittart, 23 Jan. 1935. Foreign Office to Grahame, 26 Jan. 1935. PRO FO 371/19735 W662/18/41.

16.

See Little, Malevolent Neutrality, pp. 130-51. For the straperlo scandal see Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977), p. 148.

17.

Chilton to Anthony Eden (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), 27 Dec. 1935. Minute by Vansittart, 2 Jan. 1936. Vansittart to Chilton, 3 Jan. 1936. PRO FO 371/19736 W11051/18/41.

18.

Chilton to Eden, 26 Feb. 1936. PRO FO 371/20520 W1936/622/41.

19.

Foreign Office Memorandum, 23 June 1936. PRO FO 371/20522 W5693/62/41.

20.

Geddes to Vansittart, 29 May 1936. Undated Minute by Vansittart. PRO FO 371/20563 W4885/626/41.

21.

Little, Malevolent Neutraiity, p. 209.

22.

Minute by Vansittart, 24 June 1936. PRO FO 371/20522 W5693/62/41.

23.

For details see Little, Malevolent Neutraiity, pp. 215–16 and Charles Harvey, The Rio Tinto Company: An Economic History of a Leading International Mining Concern (Penzance: Alison Hodge, 1984), pp. 264–6.

24.

Vansittart, The Mist Procession, pp. 416–17.

25.

For the origins of the Non-intervention Agreement and the Non-Interveniion Committee see Jill Edwards, The British Government and the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 (London: Macmillan, 1979), pp.

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