The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century by Gaynor Johnson

Author:Gaynor Johnson [Johnson, Gaynor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, International Relations, History, British
ISBN: 9781136872037
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

NOTES

All references to Cabinet (CAB) or Foreign Office (FO) documents relate to materials held at the National Archives, London (formerly the Public Record Office) unless otherwise stated.

1.

These difficulties are well analysed in M. Hughes, ‘The Virtues of Specialisation: British and American Diplomats Reporting on Russia 1921–39’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 11/2, (2000), pp.79–104.

2.

An example being the late Sir Frank Roberts who showed more sympathy for the problems faced by Henderson in particular than many have done. See his Dealing with Dictators: The Destruction and Revival of Europe (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991), ch.26. Roberts served as British Minister in Moscow in the late 1940s.

3.

FO 800/254 (Henderson Papers), Rumbold to Henderson, 2 Jan. 1923.

4.

Rumbold to Henderson, 29 Aug. 1930, Documents on British Foreign Policy, Second Series, Vol. 1.

5.

Rumbold to Simon, 14 Mar. 1933, Documents on British Foreign Policy, Second Series, Vol. 6.

6.

Ibid.

7.

Rumbold to Simon, 26 Apr. 1933, Documents on British Foreign Policy, Second Series, Vol. 5.

8.

Rumbold to Simon, 30 Jun. 1933, Documents on British Foreign Policy, Second Series, Vol. 5.

9.

Lord Vansittart, The Mist Procession (London: Hutchinson, 1958), p.476.

10.

FO 800/254, Rumbold to Henderson, 15 Apr. 1940.

11.

M. Gilbert, Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat (London: Heinemann, 1973), p.269.

12.

Ibid., p.379, footnote 1.

13.

CAB 21/540.

14.

FO 370/16681, Undated memorandum by Simon.

15.

Cited in Gilbert, Rumbold, p.454.

16.

Vansittart, Mist Procession, p.274.

17.

Phipps Papers, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, PHPP II 2/19, Phipps to Hankey, 29 Dec. 1940.

18.

Phipps entered the Diplomatic Service in 1899, and served variously in Constantinople, Rome, Paris, Madrid and Brussels; First Secretary 1912 and Counsellor 1920. In 1911, he married Frances Ward, the younger sister of Sarita Vansittart. Selby reciprocated Vansittart's hostility in his memoir Diplomatic Twilight 1930–1940 (London: John Murray, 1953) in which he accused his former superior of allowing the Treasury undue influence in the Foreign Office, and being in favour of the Anschluss. Vansittart strongly rejected such charges.

19.

N. Rose, Vansittart: Portrait of a Diplomat (London: Heinemann, 1977), p. 119. O'Malley entered the Foreign Office in 1911 and was also Minister to Hungary 1939–41 and Ambassador to Poland 1942–45.

20.

Rose, ibid., p. 119.

21.

FO 800/268, O'Malley to Henderson, 9 Jun. 1937.

22.

M. Gilbert and R. Gott, The Appeasers (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963), p.49.

23.

D. Cameron Watt, ‘Chamberlain's Ambassadors’, in M. Dockrill and B.J.C. McKercher (eds), Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy 1890–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996), p.154.

24.

Gilbert and Gott, Appeasers, p.49.

25.

R. Spitzy, How We Squandered the Reich (Norwich: Michael Russell, 1997), p.243.

26.

Phipps Papers, PHPP I 2/17, Vansittart to Phipps, 22 Mar. 1935.

27.

Phipps Papers, PHPP I 1/16, Phipps to Eden, 26 May 1936; FO 371/19906/C3879/4/18, minute by Sargent, 28 May 1936.

28.

Phipps Papers, PHPP I 1/16, Phipps to Foreign Office, 4 Nov. 1936.

29.

T. Jones, A Diary With Letters 1931–40 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954), p.304.

30.

Baldwin Papers, Cambridge University Library, Vol. 124, Vansittart to Cleverley, 31 Mar. 1936 and Eden to Baldwin, 27 Dec. 1936.

31.

Jones, Diary With Letters, 22 May 1936.

32.

Ibid. Lord D'Abernon was British ambassador in Berlin from 1920 to 1926. See G. Johnson, The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920–26 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). Willingdon was a former British Viceroy in India.

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