Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Re-thinking the Labour party's approach to foreign policy, 1900–1924
- 2 Labour and international affairs before the first World War
- 3 Labour and the outbreak of war, August–October 1914
- 4 Thinking about international affairs, 1914–1918
- 5 The politics of the 1917 memorandum on war aims
- 6 Labour and the peace, 1918–1921
- 7 The co-ordination of Labour's approach to foreign affairs, 1921
- 8 Labour and European reconstruction, 1921–1924
- 9 Labour and European security, 1921–1924
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Re-thinking the Labour party's approach to foreign policy, 1900–1924
- 2 Labour and international affairs before the first World War
- 3 Labour and the outbreak of war, August–October 1914
- 4 Thinking about international affairs, 1914–1918
- 5 The politics of the 1917 memorandum on war aims
- 6 Labour and the peace, 1918–1921
- 7 The co-ordination of Labour's approach to foreign affairs, 1921
- 8 Labour and European reconstruction, 1921–1924
- 9 Labour and European security, 1921–1924
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Union of Democratic Control's Four Propositions, September 1914
No Province shall be transferred from one Government to another without the consent by plebiscite or otherwise of the population of such Province.
No Treaty, Arrangement, or Undertaking shall be entered upon in the name of Great Britain without the sanction of Parliament. Adequate machinery for ensuring democratic control of foreign policy shall be created.
The foreign Policy of Great Britain shall not be aimed at creating alliances for the purpose of maintaining the ‘Balance of Power’, but shall be directed to concerted action between the Powers, and the setting up of an International Council, whose deliberations and decisions shall be public, with such machinery for securing international agreement as shall be the guarantee of an abiding peace.
Great Britain shall propose, as part of the Peace Settlement, a plan for the drastic reduction, by consent, of the armaments of all the belligerent Powers, and to facilitate that policy shall attempt to secure the general nationalisation of the manufacture of armaments and the control of the export of armaments by one country to another.
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- The Labour Party and the Politics of War and Peace, 1900–1924 , pp. 201 - 202Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009