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Abdullah, Emir  99–100
Abyssinian crisis  327–339, 570
leakage of secret material from Rome embassy  241–242, 323–325
Allenby, Sir E.  97–98
Addison, P.  325
Admiralty
British strategy before 1914  3–4
New Standard Fleet  376–377, 382, 401–402
Afghanistan
Third Afghan War  91–92
Soviet threat to and defence of India  173–177
Air Defence of Great Britain  380–381
air raids, fear of  142–143
air raid precautions  490–492
Air Staff  40–41, 54–55, 62, 108, 121–122
French air threat  141–143
intelligence estimates of Luftwaffe  284–285
World Disarmament Conference  259–260
Alexander, A. V.  208–209, 437
aliens, internment of  560–561
All-Party Army Committee  46–47, 60–61
Altmark  546, 548
Amalgamated Engineering Union  363–364
American War of Independence  394–395
Amery, L.  109–110, 146–147, 499–500
Critic of N. Chamberlain as war leader  533–534, 547–549
Locarno  164
Amanullah, King  176–177
Anderson, Sir J.  490–492
Angell, N.  437
Anglo-American trade treaty, 1938  493–494
Anglo-American security guarantee to France, 1919  74–77
Anglo-Egyptian treaty  341–342
Anglo-French Entente of 1904  68, 374–375
Anglo-French estrangement, 1919–25  135–145
Anglo-French staff talks and war plans, 1939  452, 487–489
Anglo-German naval treaty  326–327
Anglo-German Fellowship  236–237
Anglo-Irish treaty  100–101
Anglo-Japanese estrangement  118–121, 566
Anglo-Japanese treaty  119–125, 374–375
Anglo-Persian Oil Company  177–179
Anglo-Russian Convention, 1907  68, 83–84, 118–120, 374–375
Anglo-Soviet trade agreement, 1921  133–134
Anti-Comintern pact  399–400, 440, 458
anti-war opinion  46, 232–233
‘anti-waste’ campaigners  56
appeasement  7–12, 161–162, 353–354
See also N. Chamberlain
Amritsar massacre  91–92
Anschluss  399–402
Arab revolt  342–345
Archbishop of Canterbury  256, 437
Arcos raid  116
armistice with Germany  71–72
Army
comparative strength in 1920s  216–220
Field Force  219–220, 273, 282–286, 289–295, 313–315, 352–355, 357–359, 376–379, 382–383, 392, 401, 421, 441, 449–453, 458–459, 461–463, 473–474, 486, 532–533, 569–570
functions in 1920  60–64
incapable of sustaining British colonial rule by force alone  94–95
mechanization  218–219
Ten-Year rule  58 See also DRC, General Staff, Territorial army
Asquith, H. H.  3–4
Attlee, C.  50–51, 323–324, 333–334, 417–419, 438, 457, 466–468, 499–500, 531, 548–550, 556, 558–560
Australia
defence spending in 1920s  110
Hankey’s imperial tour  297
Japan  120–121
outbreak of war in 1939  481
reliance on Royal Navy for defence  106
Singapore deterrent  185–194
war effort  528–529
‘Yellow Peril’  119
backchannel diplomacy  472–478
balance of power  2, 21–22, 47–49, 51–52, 63–65, 69–77, 80–81, 114, 123–124, 135–136, 150, 156–157, 159–160, 232–233, 247, 252–253, 255–256, 262–263, 299–300, 303, 310–311, 326–327, 371–372, 382, 384, 392, 394–395, 397, 402–403, 407–408, 417–420, 427, 429, 473–477, 553–554, 564–567, 571–574
Baldwin, S.  1, 7
Abyssinian crisis  326–327
Anglo-German naval treaty  326–327
attitude towards USA  38, 82–83
character and political beliefs  16–18, 33–34
Coolidge conference  199–200
defence of Low Countries  307–309
defence spending  24
DRC  288–289, 293–294
East Fulham by-election  319–320
fear of France  150
foreign and defence policy  233–235
general election, 1935  319–326
Germany and rearmament  309, 320
Manchurian crisis  252
Ministry of Defence  360–361
policy as Prime Minister 1935–7  315–326, 352, 367
one power air standard  291
rearmament  325–326, 357–361
Singapore  295–296
Spanish Civil War  345–346
understanding of public opinion and the press  41–45
war debts owed to USA  127–128
World Disarmament Conference  259–260
Balfour, A. J.  3–4, 26, 53–54
Declaration  87–88, 99–100, 105
League if Nations  81–82
Locarno  157
Turkey  88–89
war debts owed to USA  127–128
Washington Conference  121–123
Ball, Sir J.  384, 415
Bank of England  246–247
Bank Rate  286–287
Barlow, Sir A.  494–496
Barnett, C.  33–34
Battle of the Falklands  189
BBC  51–52, 316, 339–340, 415, 442–443, 472
Beatty, Lord  61–62, 185, 197–198
Beck, Colonel-General L.  413
Bell, G.  86
Bevin, E.  50–51, 323–324, 417–418
Bingham, R.  393
Birkenhead, Lord  19, 35–36, 80–81, 157
Defence of India committee  174–176
Bleriot, L.  142–143
blockade  5–6, 68, 196–197
1939–40  514–519, 537–538, 557–558
Blomberg, General von  411–412
Bolshevism
Comintern and fear of subversion of British empire  86–87, 170–173
failure of armed intervention  83–86
Bonar Law, A.  1, 16, 127–128
Bonnet, G.  431, 448–450, 452, 483–484
Borden, Sir R.  102
‘Bore War’  532
Botha, General L.  105
Briand, A.  137–138, 140–141, 159–160, 168–169, 210, 220–221
Bridgeman, W.  195–198, 202
Bridges, E.  238
Bright, R.  47–48
British Council  339–340
British empire, conceptions of and public support for  45–46, 66–67, 221–222
British Expeditionary Force  555–556, 564
British Union of Fascists  231–232, 560–561
British war debts owed to USA  116–117, 125–132
Brittan, V.  232–233
Brown, E.  363–364, 521–522
Bruce, S.  164
Bruce Lockhart, R.  83–84
Brüning, H.  254
Bryant, A.  475–477
Burckhardt, K.  477–478
Burgin, L.  462, 519–520
Butler, Sir N.  234–235
Butler, R. A.  397–398, 477–478, 513–514, 543–544
by-elections  56, 80–81, 131, 232, 243–244, 319–320, 414–415, 438, 445, 531
cabinet system  19
Cabinet Foreign Policy Committee  375–376, 398–399, 445–446, 452, 466–468, 475–477
Military Co-ordinating Committee  505
Strategical Appreciation Sub–committee  487–488
Cabinet Secretariat  19–20, 239–240
Cadogan, Sir A.  427–428, 430, 497–498, 500, 541, 544, 546–547
Calthrope, Admiral  88
Canada
defence spending in 1920s  110
ethnic divisions  106
Hankey’s imperial tour  297–298
Japan  120–121
outbreak of war in 1939  482
war effort  528–530
Canaris, Admiral  411–412
Carson, Sir E.  87–88
Carlton Club  131
Cavan, Lord  61–62, 159, 181–182, 189–190
Cecil, Lord R.  15–16
British high-mindedness  34
Coolidge conference  199–200
League of Nations  115
Manchurian crisis  249
Munich agreement  437
Rapallo  140
resignation  200
Royal Navy  115
stereotypes of Irish and Slavs  36–37
‘Watching Committee’  533–534
World Disarmament conference  255
Chamberlain, A.  1, 11
appeasement  161–162
attitude towards League of Nations and Concert of Europe  51–52
China  179–185
cold war with USSR in 1927  169–179
confidence in British power  39–40
Coolidge conference  200–201
Dominions  109–110
function of diplomacy  20–21
German rearmament  206–207
Invergordon mutiny  230–231
Kellogg-Briand pact  202, 229
League of Nations  51–52
Locarno  154–164
managing the Locarno system  167–169
mental maps  34, 38, 40
Mosul settlement  148–149, 566–567
public ignorant of foreign affairs  42
public supported League of Nations
public wanted peace  43
Singapore base and war with Japan  187–188
spending on defence  56–57
USA  201–202
war debts owed to USA  127
war plans  62
Chamberlain, Lady I.  384
Chamberlain, N.  7, 11
Abyssinian crisis  338
Anschluss  399–404
appeasing Germany  384, 386–389, 398–399, 424–426
appeasing Italy  384, 396–397, 399, 445–447, 458
appeasement after Munich  436–438, 442, 454–455, 468, 470–471
backchannels appeasement  436–437, 470–478, 501
character and reputation  235–236, 371–375
choices he faced as Prime Minister  372–373, 571
commitment to France  449–450, 452–453
conscription  458–461
compromise peace in May 1940  556–557
critics of his wartime leadership  532–535, 548–549
decision for war  478–500
distrusted by Labour party  460–461
Eden’s resignation  389–397
France  395–396
fall from office in May 1940  545–550
fortress Britain  382, 384, 449, 451–454, 488–489, 570
Greek guarantee  458
grand strategy and the DRC  314, 535–545
grand strategy of appeasement as Prime Minister  374–376, 394–397, 434–435
grand strategy 1939–40  503–519, 532, 535–545, 552, 572–573
hatred of war  272, 371–372, 532–533
ignorant of foreign affairs and grand strategy  273–274, 374–375, 571–572
Inskip Report, limited liability, and fourth arm of defence  376–384, 557–558
Japan  299–303, 315, 516–517
kitchen cabinet  397–398
Land Forces committee  5, 505–506
Limited liability strategy  376–377, 449–450
mobilizing home front  519–535
Ministry of Supply  401–402, 461–462
Munich crisis  402–413, 426–434
National Defence Contribution  365–366
open diplomacy  239
orthodox financier  274–275, 365
Palestine  343–345
Polish guarantee  456–458
Prime Minister  371–376, 434–435, 564, 571
Prague, significance of German occupation of  454–455, 500–501
public opinion  272–273, 318–319, 378, 382–383, 401–403, 414–415, 419–420, 445, 459–460, 497–498, 500–501, 548–549, 572
rearmament and air deterrent, 1936  355–360, 362–364
rearmament and 1935 general election  321–322, 325–326
rearmament after Munich  438, 440–442
Rumanian guarantee  458
Scandinavian campaign  535–545
Soviet alliance  463–472
stereotype of the Germans  35–36
USA  280–281, 299–300, 302, 394–395, 493–494
Venlo incident  511–512
war aims  510–514
War Cabinet  503–505, 531, 534–535
Z plan  426–434
Chanak crisis  106–107, 128–135
Channon, H ‘Chips’  444–445
Chatfield, Sir E (later Lord)  1, 6
Anglo-French staff talks  487–488
Arab revolt  344–345
Abyssinian crisis  329–330, 335
DRC  277, 281–282, 288–289, 291
First Sea Lord  237
Minister for Co-ordination of Defence  397–398, 442–443, 461–462, 464–465, 488–489, 505, 508, 521–522, 525, 534–535
Rearmament  351, 390
Chatham House  45, 49–50
Cheka  170
Chelmsford, Lord  103
Chetwode. Sir P.  104–105
Chiang Kai-shek  181–182, 184, 516–517
Chiefs of Staff
Abyssinian crisis  329–331
Afghanistan and defence of India  173–176
air raid precautions  490–491
Anglo-Egyptian treaty  341–342
appeasing Mussolini  384, 399
Arab revolt  344
avoidance of unnecessary wars  82
‘British strategy in a certain eventuality’  554–555, 557–562
belligerent rights  201–202, 208–209
China, 1927  182–184
compositions, functions, and members  27–30, 237–240, 504–505
defence of empire  110–111
defence of ports  192
Defence Requirements Committee  276–290
Dominions  528–529
education of public opinion  317
European Appreciation 1939–40  484–487, 514–515, 536
fall of France  551
fifth column  560–561
Geneva Protocol  152–153
guarantee to Belgium  307–308
Inskip Review  379–380
Locarno  161–162
Low Countries, defence of  359, 378–379, 451–452
pacifism  317
Persian oil fields  178–179
military balance, 1930  212–220
military balance September 1938  420–423
Montreux Convention  340–341
Munich crisis  406, 419–420
relations between members  182–183, 192, 237
Red Army  310–311, 424–426, 466–468
Red Sea littoral  167–168
Review of Imperial Defence 1926  63–64, 282, 294–295
Review of Imperial Defence 1932  317–318
Review of Imperial Defence 1933  279–280
Scandinavian campaign  540–543, 546–547
Situation Report Centre  242–243
Singapore  190–191
Soviet alliance, 1939  464–468
Spanish Civil War  345–347
Strategic Appreciation February 1939  479, 485–486
strategic bombing  502–503
Ten-Year rule  273–275
three-front war  338, 394–395, 479, 514–515, 563
war plans 1924  61–62
war plans against Turkey, 1924  147–148
war plans, 1939  450–451, 484–490
Chilston, Viscount  424–426
China
British concessions  179–180
Communist party  180–181, 184, 231–232
British policy towards in 1920s  179–185
See also Leith Ross mission, Manchurian crisis, Tientsin
Church Times  443–444
Churchill, W.S.  19
alliance with USSR  464
anti-Bolshevism  83–84
Cairo Conference  98–99
Chamberlain, N.  371
committee  58–60, 64–65
containment of Germany and ‘grand alliance’  324–325, 356–357, 404, 434–435
Coolidge conference  200
decision to continue the war after fall of France  554–562
defence spending  24
excluded from National Government  238–239, 269–270, 404–405, 442–443
formation of government, 1940  550
First Lord of the Admiralty  503–505
German air menace  290, 376–377
German rearmament  206
German resistance to Hitler  411–412, 511–512
intelligence  32–33
Japan  120
League of Nations Union  404–405
limited liability strategy, opposition to  506–507, 520–521, 527–528
Locarno  157–160
merchant shipping  524
Military Co-ordination committee  534–535
Ministry of Defence  27–28
Ministry of Supply  462
mobilization of the war economy  527
Munich crisis  404, 408–412, 438
navy’s oil fuel reserves  192–193
opposition to Chamberlain  416–417, 457, 497
Palestine  99–100
post-war army  55, 95
Prime Minister  550–562
public support for as war leader  533–534, 548–549
rearmament  290–291, 325, 364
reprisals in Ireland  94
Scandinavian campaign  534–535, 537–542, 544, 546
Singapore base  186–188, 516
Ten-Year rule  57, 202–203
‘The Focus’  356–357, 416–417
Turkish occupation  90
USA  120
war aims  11–12, 553–554
China
Shanghai Defence Force  179–185
Ciano, Count  241–242, 384, 399, 433, 445–447, 480, 515–516
Citrine, Sir W.  50–51, 323–324, 418
Civil Deence Act  492
Clemenceau, G.  74–76, 89–90
Clerk, Sir G.
stereotype of the Czechs  36–37
Clive, Sir R.  299, 301, 410
Cobden, R.  47–48
Collier, N.  390–391
Colonial Office  20, 109–110
Colville, J.  428–429
Colvin, I.  456–457
Comintern  31–33, 86–87, 165–166, 170–173, 180–181, 240–241
See also Bolshevism
commitment to the defence of France  74–77, 105, 137–141, 151–154, 156–158, 162, 164, 220–221, 232–233, 257–259, 262–263, 265–266, 306–307, 317, 405, 567
in 1939  447–454
Committee of Imperial Defence
Advisory Committee on Trade Questions in Time of War  252, 420
battleships  117–118
origins and British strategy before 1914  3–4
structure, functions, membership  25–30
Committee on Eastern Unrest  172–173
Committee of Union and Progress  87
Commonwealth  46
conscription  458–461
Conservative party
dissident MPs at Munich  416–417
electoral appeal  16–18, 41–42, 45, 55–56, 169
hostility to Lloyd George  130–131
post- Munich  437–438, 497–498
continental alliances
opposition to  47–49, 137–139
Coolidge naval conference  198–202
Corbett, J.  4–5, 197–198
Craigie, Sir R.
Tientsin crisis  479–480
understanding of American politics and power  38
Crewe, Lord
stereotype of the French  36–37
Crowe, Sir E.  152–153, 155–156
Crozier, W. P.  232
Cunliffe-Lister, P.  315–316
Cushendun, Lord  42–43
Curzon, Lord  1, 26, 33
Chanak crisis  129–130
Dawes Plan  150–151, 566–567
Disarmament  194
Germany and League of Nations  140
Japan and USA  119
League of Nations  81–82
Locarno  157
Mosul dispute  146–149
Rapallo  140
Ruhr occupation  137–138
Russo-Turkish treaty  131–133
Treaty of Lausanne  145–146
USSR  133–134
stereotype of the Japanese  36–37
Czechoslovakia  77–78
Locarno  163–164
Czechoslovakia, see Munich crisis, Prague
D’Abernon, Lord
Locarno  150, 156–159
stereotypes of the Germans  36–37
Dahlerus, B.  477–478, 508–509
Dáil Ēireann  93
Daily Express  232
Daily Herald  268–269, 454–455
Daily Mail  231–232, 291
Daily Telegraph  43–44, 337, 477
Daily Worker  560–561
de Robeck, Admiral  89–90
Daladier, E.  407–408, 423–424, 431, 433–434, 448–449, 460–461, 466–468, 483–485, 500, 512–513, 539–540, 545–546
Dalton, H.  50–51, 323–324, 337, 411, 497–498, 548
Davies, C.  533–534, 548–549
Dawes Plan  150–153
Dawnay, G.  44–45
decision for war, 1939  478–500
decision to continue the war after the fall of France  554–562
declinism  10, 172–173, 571–572
Defence Policy and Requirements  358–360
Defence Requirements Committee
establishment  273–276
final report amended by ministers, (DC(M))  286–295, 569–570
initial report 1934  276–286, 317–318, 569
reconvened 1935  351–361
Defence Policy and Requirements Committee  239–240
defence spending in 1920s  212–220
defencists  46–47
de la Warr, E.  411, 428–429, 446–447
Denikin, General, Kolchak
De Valera, E.  483
Deverell, Sir C.  376–379, 383
Dill, Major-General John  329–330
diplomatists
background and beliefs  20–22
Dingli, A.  384
Dirksen, H. von  469–474
Dollfuss, A.  311
Dominions
Chanak crisis  106–107
defence co-operation after 1918  102–103, 106–112
DRC’s report & Hankey’s imperial tour  295–299
excluded from making foreign policy  164
Locarno  159–160, 164
Munich crisis  421–422
outbreak of war in 1939  481–483
place in British defence planning  111–112
reconfiguration of relations with 1919–26  101–112
Singapore deterrent  185–194
war efforts  528–530, 558–559
See also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa
Dominions Office  109–110
Drummond-Wolf, H.  475–477
Duff Cooper, A.  316, 358, 374, 376–377, 401, 427, 433, 438, 442–445
Dunglass, Lord  397–398
Dunkirk evacuation  551–552
‘Easter Accords’  399
Easter Rising  93
Eden, A.
Abyssinian crisis  324–325, 332–333, 338–339
Anschluss  399–400
Anglo-Egyptian treaty, 1936  341, 343–344
Dominions Secretary  2
Foreign Secretary  334–335
Germany, policy of containment  350–351, 386–387, 389–399, 434–437, 571
Iraq  339–340
Italy  346–347, 384
Minister for League of Nations Affairs  315–316
Nyon conference  384
opposition to Chamberlain 1938–9  416–417, 442–443, 497
Polish guarantee  457
Rearmament  358
resignation  396–397
Secretary of State for War  550
Spanish Civil War  348
USA  393–394
visit to Berlin 1934  305–306
visit to Berlin and Moscow, 1935  309–311
Western Pact  349–351
Egypt
revolt of 1919 and 1922 settlement  91, 96–98
see also Anglo-Egyptian treaty
Eire
outbreak of war in 1939  483
Ellington, Sir E.
Abyssinian crisis  286
DRC  277, 283–285
Expansion of RAF  354–355
Elliot, Sir C.  119–120
Elliot, W.  411, 446–447
Empire Marketing Board  45
Empire Day  45
Esher, Lord  103
Eyres-Monsell, Sir B.  237
Far Eastern Combined Bureau  240–241
Ferris, J.  7
Field, Admiral Sir F.  237
Field Service Regulations  4–5
Fifth column  560–561
First World War  67–73
Fisher, Sir W.  23–24
DRC  277, 279–289, 317–318
defence loan  365
Fitzroy, Speaker  549
Fleet Air Arm  22–23
Foch, Marshal  73–74
Fontainebleau memorandum  74–76
foreign exchange, shortages of, 1939–40  495, 507–508, 519, 525–527, 530, 559–560
Foreign Office
News Department and manipulation of public opinion  43–44, 415
structure and functions  20–22
Forester, A.  410
fortress Britain  376–384, 390, 401, 449–454, 488–489, 570
France
Abyssinian crisis  328, see also Laval, P.
acceleration of rearmament after Munich  448
army reforms and Maginot line, 927–29  162
British security guarantee  74–77, 105, 137–141, 151–154, 156–158, 162, 164, 220–221, 232–233, 257–259, 262–263, 265–266, 306–307, 317, 405, 567
Coolidge conference  199–200
Dawes Plan  150–153
defeatism, British fears of French defeatism after Munich  448–452
declaration of war  448–449, 460–461, 466–468, 483–485, 500
fall of  550–554
Franco-German non-aggression pact  450–451
French air threat to Britain  141–145
estrangement from Britain 1919–25  135–145
evacuation of Rhineland  168–169
hostility to Germany after 1919  113–114, 135–145
Little Entente  77–78
Locarno  149–164
Middle Eastern peace settlement  87–88, 132
Munich crisis  407–408, 423–424, 431, 433–434
naval rivalry with Italy  210
occupation of Ruhr  137, 149–150
reparations  125–126
Soviet pact in 1939  466–468
Scandinavian campaign  539–540, 545–546
threat to British security in 1920s  61–63
Versailles settlement  73–77, 79
war aims  512–513
Washington treaty  122–124
World Disarmament Conference  253–268
Franco, General F.  346–349
see Spanish Civil War
Fraser, Colonel W.  449–450
freedom of the seas  72
French, Lord  93–94
Fritsch, General von  411–412
Fuller, J. F. C.  6–7
Gallacher, W.  231–232
Gamelin, General M.  423–424, 449–450, 502–503, 528, 542, 551–554
GC&CS  30–31, 33, 240–241
‘Geddes Axe’  58–60
Geddes, Sir E.  58–59
general elections  16–18, 42–45, 372–373
1918  73–74, 93, 130–131
1922  131
1924  49–50
1929  201–202, 207–208
1931  231–233, 236, 254
1935  288–289, 315–316, 322–323, 325–326, 333–334, 355, 418, 574–575
1940  355–356, 366, 372–373, 401–402, 414–415, 438, 471, 475–477, 499
General Staff
British strategy before 1914  3–4
defence of India  174–176, 275
French alliance  153–154
German revival  156
Japan  120
Locarno  162–163
Mesopotamian revolt  36–37, 87
Washington conference  121–122
General Strike  39–40, 171–172, 186–187
Geneva Protocol  152–153
Genoa Conference  134
‘Gentleman’s Agreement’  347, 399
German East Asia Squadron  189
Germany
Genoa conference  133–134
Locarno  149–164
Rapallo  134
reparations  125–126
resistance to Hitler at Munich  411–413
revisionist power after 1919  113–114, 134–136
secret rearmament  132, 205–206
threat to British security before and during First World War  47–48, 67–73
threat to British security in 1920s  62
Versailles settlement and German resentment  73–80
Withdrawal from League and Disarmament conference  267
World Disarmament Conference  253–268
See also Hitler, A.
Gibbs, N. H.  7–9
Gilmore, Sir J.  534–535
‘Glamour Boys’  533–534
Gleichberechtigung  254, 262
Goebbels, J.  39, 305
Goerdeler, K.  411–412
Göring, H  383, 408–409, 439, 478
gold standard  16–18, 45, 53–54, 186–187, 225, 229–231, 245, 249, 269, 286–287, 568
Gort, Viscount  383, 450–451, 458, 504–505, 507–508, 552
Graf Spee  546
Grandi, Count  331–332, 391–392, 396–397
grand strategy
changing definitions  4–6
constituent elements  7–12, 66–67, 564–565, 569, 572–573
public opinion and  40–53, 232–233
First World War  67–73
Graves, R.  232–233
Great Depression  230–233
Greece
invasion of Anatolia  128–129
Greenwood, A.  419, 443–444, 499–500, 550, 556–557, 559–560
Greenwood, H.  93–94
Grey, Sir. E.  391
Grigg, Sir P.  504–505
Groves, P. R. C.  142–143
‘Guilty Men’  7, 371
‘guns v. aircraft’  190–192
Gwynne, H. A.  158–159
Haig, Sir D.  71–72
Hailsham, Viscount  237, 262, 289, 294–295, 315–316, 397–398, 428–431
Haldane, Sir A.  92
Haldane, Lord  15–16, 26–28, 62
Halder, General F.  413, 422–423
Halifax, Lord
Anschluss  399–400, 405
Arab revolt  344
backchannel diplomacy  477–478
breach with Chamberlain during and after Munich crisis  430–431, 475–477
British empire  45
Chatham House speech June 1939  472–473
commitment to France  448–451, 453–454
conscription  460
declaration of war  499–501
Foreign Secretary  397–398, 550
international morality  498, 501
Italy  399, 445–447, 449
Kristallnacht  444–445
limited long war strategy  508–509, 511–512, 535–545, 572–573
Munich crisis  402–413, 426–434
negotiated peace in May 1940  554–558, 561–562
policy after Munich conference  442–443, 445–446, 451, 454–455
Polish guarantee  456–457
press  268–269, 414–415
Lord President of the Council  374
meeting with Hitler November 1937  387–389
Munich crisis  405–411, 413, 419, 427–431
Scandinavian campaign  538–539, 544, 573–574
Secretary of State for War  315–316
Soviet alliance  465–468, 497
Spanish Civil War  348–349
stereotype of French  243–244
Tientsin crisis  479–480
USA  493–494, 496
Venlo incident  9–10
war aims  510–511
Hankey, Sir M (later Lord)  3–4
Britain's weakness in 1931  247
Cabinet Secretary  19–20, 238–240
Continental commitment  358–359
Defence Requirements Committee  275–286, 289, 294
Dominions  109–110
German rearmament  266–267, 320
grand strategy, lack of  317, 367, 434–435
Imperial tour  295–299
League of Nations  34
Munich crisis  432–433
Minister without Portfolio  503
National Government  229–230
opposition to Ministry of Defence  30
pacifists and pacificists  313, 317–319
post-war defence commitments  61–62
post-war economic policy  56
post-war problems  113
rearmament  358–359
right of blockade  197
Scandinavian campaign  545–546
Spanish Civil War  345–346
Ten Year rule  273
USA  128
Washington conference  123–124
World Disarmament Conference  256, 262
Harding, President W.  121–122, 194
Harington, Sir C.  130
Harvey, O.  396
Hearst, W. R.  39
Henderson, A.  2, 18–19, 208–209, 230–231, 254–255
Henderson, Sir N.  34
agreement with Chamberlain  386–387
appeasement  372
balance of power  371
conveyed proposals to Hitler March 1938  398–399
declaration of war  462, 471, 474, 497–498, 500
distant relations with Hitler and Ribbentrop  387
Munich crisis  408–411, 413, 427
stereotypes of Slavs and Germans  243–244
Henlein, K.  408–409, 427
Herriot. E.  151–152
Hertzog, General J. B. M.  296–297, 421–422, 482–483
Hilton, J.  437
Hitler, A
attitude towards Britain  398–399, 409–410, 443–444
Anglo-German naval treaty  326–327
Anschluss  396–402
comes to power  263–264, 266–267
Czechoslovakia, final destruction  439, 454
Four-Year Plan  349–350
Hossbach memorandum  387–388
ideology and aims  263–265, 272–273, 387–388, 404–405
intelligence of his ambitions before 1933  247
invasion of France and the Low Countries  550
made policy on the hoof  284
meeting with Halifax  388–389
meeting with Simon and Eden  309
misunderstanding of his ambitions and methods  305, 309, 336–337, 374, 383, 439, 468
Munich crisis  403, 405–411, 424–434
Norwegian campaign  546
peace offer October 1939  508–509
Poland  456–457, 469–470, 478–479, 498
rearmament of Germany  255–256, 278–279, 305, 309
remilitarization of Rhineland and aftermath  336–338, 350–351, 365–366
repudiated Treaty of Versailles  309
sought Anglo-German alliance  304, 335–336
Nazi-Soviet pact  471–472
Spanish Civil War  339
Stresa front  304–313, 335–336
war aims 1939  514, 561–562
war plans 1939  439–440, 443–444, 447–448, 469–470
withdrawal from League of Nations and Disarmament conference  275
Z plan  409–410, 439
HMS Hood HMS Royal Oak  532–533
Hoare, Sir S.
DRC  293–294
Locarno  157–158
Ten-Year rule placed on rolling basis  202–203
Trenchard  29
World Disarmament Conference  205
See also Abyssinian crisis
Hoare-Laval pact  39, 265, 333–334, 346–347, 360–361, 417–418
Hodgson, R.  146
Hohenlohe, Prince M. von  477–478
Home Intelligence  559–560
Hong Kong  120, 186–187
base for war against Japan  188
HMS Hood  115
Hoover, President H.  196–197, 207–210
Hore-Belisha, L.  374, 382–383, 430–431, 438, 441–443, 449–450, 453–454, 458–459, 461–462, 483–484, 489–491, 496, 499–500, 503–507, 511, 529–530, 534
Horne, Sir R.  126–127
House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee  2–5
Howard, Sir E.  109, 152–153
Hudson, R.  475–477
Hughes, W. M.  71–72, 102, 106–108
Ibn Saud  177–178
Imperial Conference, 1921  81–82, 107–108, 120–121
Imperial Conference, 1923  1, 107–108
Imperial Conference, 1926  160
Imperial Conference, 1930  210–211
Imperial Defence College  29–30, 42–43, 244
Imperial Maritime League  46–47
Imperil War Conferences, 1917 and 1918  102
Ingersoll, Captain R. E.  393–394
India,
Birkenhead committee on defence of  174–177
defence co-operation after 1918  103–104
Government of India Act 1919  96–97, 103–105
Indianization of the Indian army  104–105
revolt of 1919  91–92, 96–97
Round Table conference, 1931  104–105
India Office  20
Indian Political Intelligence service  30–31
Industrial Intelligence Centre  242, 244, 310–311
industrial mobilization
before 1939  360–366
Inskip, Sir T.  346–347, 360–361, 364, 367, 379–383, 392, 398–401, 410–411, 428–429, 442–443
Inskip Review  376–384, 401
Intelligence bureaucracy  30–33, 170, 240–244
Invergordon mutiny  230–231
Iraq
Imposition of King Feisal on  98–99
Relations in 1930s  339–340
Ireland
War of independence  93–94, 100–101
See also Eire
Irish Republican Army  93–94
Ironside, Sir E.  35–36, 232–233, 457–458, 504–505, 536–537, 546–547
Ismay, Sir H.  238
Italy
Anglo-French war plans against, 1939  488–490
anti-British propaganda in Arab world  339–340
First World War  87–88
Locarno  159, 161–162
neutrality 1939–40  514–516
revisionist power after 1919  2, 113, 167–168, 229, 253–254, 272–273
Stresa front  311–313, 349–350
Washington Naval conference  122–123
see also Mussolini
Jackson, P.  244
Japan
Manchurian crisis, and departure from League of Nations  247–253, 263–264
Leith-Ross mission  299–304
naval competition and Washington treaty  118–125
neutrality 1939–40  516–519
Second London Naval Conference  299–304
Twenty-One Demands  118–119
Joint Intelligence Committee  33, 242–243
Joint Oversea and Home Defence Committee (JOHDC)  189–192
Joint Planning Staff  6, 29–30
Jones, T.  317
Joynson-Hicks, Sir W.  170–172, 181–182
Kellogg-Briand pact  202, 210, 220–221, 229–230, 249–250, 271–272
Kemal, Atatürk  87, 90, 128–132, 145–146, 246
Kemsley, Lord  477–478
Kennedy, J.  427–428, 454–455, 530
Keyes, Admiral Sir R.  548–549
Keynes, J. M.  437
‘King and Country’ debate  320
Kitchener, Lord  55, 67–70
Kolchak, Admiral  84–86
Kristallnacht pogrom  443–445
Kuomintang  180–184
Labour government
collapse of in 1931  230–231
Labour party
conscription  460–461
foreign policy  50–51
defence policy, 1931–35  322–324
Munich crisis  417–419
Lampson, Sir M.  44–45, 181–182, 184, 330–331, 344
Land Forces committee & 55 division programme  505–506, 519–521, 528
Lansbury, G.  50–51, 322–324
Lausanne conference  33
Laval, P.  328, 333–334, 346–347
League of Nations  47–53, 80–83, 167–169, 232–233
disarmament  194–196
scepticism towards  51, 232–233
see also Abyssinian crisis
League of Nations Union  49–51, 356–357, 404–405
Manchurian crisis  250–253
opposition to French alliance  138–139
see also Peace Ballot
Lee, Lord  120
Leith-Ross mission  271–272
Lenin, V. I.  83–84
Lindley, Sir F.  83–84, 249, 277–278
Lindsay, Sir R.  146
Liddell Hart, B. H.  6–7, 277, 437
Little Entente  77–78
Litvinov, M.  310–311, 466–468
Lloyd George, D.  1
adroit diplomacy  113, 566
Anglo-French relations  135–145
Armistice terms  72
Bolshevik Russia  83–86, 133–134, 139–140
British empire  46
Chanak crisis and fall from power  128–135
character  16
confidence in British power  39–40
Dominions  102, 105
Freedom of the seas  115
French chauvinism  138
Genoa Conference  134
India  96–97
Indianization of Indian Army  104–105
Irish War of Independence  93–94
League of Nations  80–83
negotiated peace  509
Paris Peace Conference  73–80, 115
Rapallo  134–135, 139–140
Soviet alliance in 1939  463–464
Ten-Year Rule  57–58
Turkey  88–91, 128–135
war aims and suspicions of Tsarist Russia  69
Washington treaty  117–118
Lloyd, G.  371–372
London Naval Conference, 1930  207–212, 568
London Naval Conference, 1936  271–272
Londonderry, Lord  236–237, 244, 291, 305–306, 315–316, 356–357, 411–412
Long, W.  169–170
Loraine, Sir P.  177, 515–516, 553–554, 556–557
Lothian, Lord  493, 511, 519–520, 525, 532
Luftwaffe  285–286, 309, 349–350, 352, 357–358, 376–377, 380–381, 420–421, 439, 449, 485, 490–491, 502–503, 505–506, 520–521, 547–548, 550, 556–558, 561–562, 570
Lytton report  263–264
MacDonald, M.  397–398, 428–429, 481
MacDonald, J. R.
character & political beliefs  18–19
conscious of Britain’s weakness  269–270
Dawes Plan  151–152
disarmament  195, 207–210, 254–255, 258–259, 262, 265–266
DRC  275–276, 288–290
Germany  267–268, 309
guarantee to Belgium  307–308
National Government  233–247
open diplomacy  51–52, 265–266
opposition to French alliance  138–139, 210
public opinion and grand strategy  40–41, 272–273
reluctant to rearm  319
retired from premiership  315–316
Stresa front  312–313
trade and diplomatic relations with USSR  170–171, 179
Maclean, D.  32–33
Mackenzie King, W.  45, 106, 167, 432–433, 482–483
McMahon, Sir H.  87–88
Macmillan, H.
Macmillan, Lord  531–532
Mahan, Admiral A. T.  197–198
Maisky, I.  310–311, 423–424, 466–468, 514, 543–544
Manchester Guardian  95–96, 232
Manchurian crisis  247–253
manpower policy, 1939–40  521–522, 526–527
Margesson, D.  416, 497, 503–504
Mason-MacFarlane, Colonel  432–433
Maughan, Lord  428–431
‘Mediterranean Locarno’  258
Memel, German occupation of  456–457
merchant shipping  522–524
Mesopotamia
revolt 1920  92, 98–99
MI5  30–31, 339–340
Middle East
post-war settlement  87–91
military balance 1930  212–220, 567
military balance after Munich  436–437, 455–456
Milch, General E.  366–367
Milne, Sir G.  22–23
defence of Afghanistan and India  173–176
Kellogg-Briand pact  202
stereotype of the Japanese  35–36
World Disarmament Conference  262–263
Milner, Lord  83–84
Mission to Egypt  96–98
Ministry of Defence
agitation for  27–28, 30
Ministry of Economic Warfare: see blockade
Ministry of Food  524–526
Ministry of Information  531–532, 534
Ministry of Shipping  522–524
Ministry of Supply  364, 401–402, 418–419, 441, 505–506, 524–526
mobilizing the home front, 1939–40  519–535
Molotov, V.  466–469, 471–472
Monroe Doctrine  115
Montagu, E.  91–92, 95–98, 103
Montgomery-Massingberd, Sir A.
DRC  279–280, 282–283, 289, 306–307
defence of the Low Countries  358
Morning Post  43–44
moralism  436–437, 444–445, 472, 498
Morrison, H.  548
Morton, D.  244–245
Mosley, Sir O.  231–232
Mosul settlement  146–149
Munich crisis  402–413, 426–434
military balance  419–426
Mussolini, B.
Abyssinian crisis  327–338
decision to declare war in June 1940  553–554
‘Gentleman’s Agreement’  347
glorified war  263–264
hostile to League of Nations  168–169
meeting with Lady Chamberlain  384
Munich crisis  433
naval rivalry with France  210
occupation of Albania  458, 465–466, 485
Red Sea littoral  167–168
reluctant to go to war in 1939  480
Rome-Berlin Axis  346–347
Spanish Civil War  339, 346–347, 384
Nadir Shah  176–177
Nanking, sacking of  183–184
national service  46–47, 176–177, 413–415, 441–443, 460
National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship  42
Naval Staff  5–6
Abyssinian crisis  329–330
French alliance  153
stereotype of the Japanese  35–36
war plans against Japan  188, 197–198
Washington Conference  121–122
Second London Naval Conference  300–301
see also Admiralty
Navy League  46–47
News Chronicle  477
Neurath, Baron von  384, 411–412
Newall, Sir C.  504–505
New Zealand
defence spending in 1920s  110
Hankey’s imperial tour  297
Japan  120–121
outbreak of war in 1939  481
reliance on Royal Navy for defence  106
Singapore deterrent  185–194
war effort  528–529
Nicolson, H.  34, 416–417, 437
Norway debate  547–549
Norwegian campaign  546–547
Noyon conference  384
Ormsby-Gore, W.  343–344
Ottawa conference  45, 246–247, 393
pacifism and pacificism  49–50, 232–233, 263–264, 317–318, 320, 356–357, 417–418
Pact of London, 1914  68
Pact of Steel  439–440, 469–470
Paine, T.
The Rights of Man  47–48
Palestine
Arab opposition to Jewish immigration  99–100
British mandate of  99–100
pan-Islamism  87
pan-Turkism  87
Papan, F. von.  261
Parker, R. A. C.  404–405
parliamentary Air Committee  142–143
Paris peace conference  9–10, 72–80
Parrott, Sir E.  46
Passport Control Officers  31–32
Peace Ballot  320–321, 569–570
Peace Society  325–326
peace, fundamental British objective  1–2
Peace Pledge Union  356–357
Peden, G.  286–287
Peel, Lord  342–344
perfidious Albion  38–39
Perth, Earl of  241–242, 433
Phipps, Sir E.  243–244, 278–279, 305, 352, 404–405, 421, 429, 449–450, 460
Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Admiral Sir A. R.  469
Poincaré, R.  137–138, 140–141, 149–150
Poland  77–78
British guarantee  455–458, 474
Locarno  163–164
Refusal to co-operate with Hitler after Munich  440
policy-making elite
composition & structure in 1920s  15–33
composition and structure in 1930s  230–247
diminution in confidence in 1930s  167, 229–230, 245–248, 269–270, 273–275, 355–356, 407, 426, 441, 564, 568, 574–575
mental maps  15–16, 33–40
post-war economy and deflation  55–56
Post-War Questions Committee  117–118
Pound, Admiral Sir D.  198–199, 504–505
Pownall, H.  286–287, 289, 293–294, 449–450, 462–463
Prague, German occupation of  454–455, 500–501
Pratt, Sir J.  249–250
Prussian militarism, reaction against  52–53, 95–96
public opinion
construction of  41–45, 232
influence on grand strategy  40–53, 272–273, 318–319, 569–570, 572
Munich crisis  413–415
post-Munich to outbreak of war  437, 444–445, 457, 460–461, 464–465, 497–500
Phoney War  509, 530–532, 545–546, 548
summer of 1940  559–560
public opinion polls  41–42, 413–415, 445
Pulford, Sir A.  2–3
Raeder, Admiral K.  409–410
Radar  380–381
Rapallo, treaty
significance of  128–135, 566–567
destruction of by Locarno  158–159
rationing  530
Rawlinson, Sir H.  104–105
rearmament  351–361, 367–368, 401
after Munich  440–442, 461–462
see also DRC, Inskip
Reith, Sir J.  534
Reparations  72, 76, 125–126, 160
Red Army  310–311, 423–426
Reynaud, P.  545–546, 553–555
Reza Khan  177–179
Rhineland, reoccupation of  336–337, 349–351, 366–367, 570–571
Ribbentrop, J.  304–306, 387, 398–399, 411, 439–440, 447–448, 456–457, 469–473, 480
Robertson, Sir W.  5–6
Rothermere, Lord  44–45, 157, 187, 231–232, 291, 326–327
Roosevelt, President F. D.  392–397, 451, 478–480, 492–496, 511, 514, 517–518, 553–557, 559
Royal Air Force
air policing  143–144
comparative strength in 1920s  213–216
functions in 1920  60–64
Home Defence Air Force  141–145, 273
strategic bombing  149
struggle to maintain its independence in 1920s  22–23
Ten-Year rule  58
See also Air Staff, DRC, rearmament
Royal Flying Corps  22–23
Royal Naval Air Services  22–23
Royal Navy
challenged by IJN and USN  114–128
comparative strength in 1920s  212–214
defence of its world-wide basing system  189–192
functions in 1920  60–64
oil supplies  192–193
Singapore deterrent  185–194
Ten-Year rule  58–60
war 1939–40  505–507, 514, 518–519, 537–538, 546, 557–559
See also DRC, Naval Staff, rearmament
Ruchcliffe, Lord  497–498
Ruhr
French and Belgium occupation of  137–138, 149–150
Rumania  77–78
Rumbold, Sir H.  33, 128–129, 131–132, 230, 257, 267
Mein Kampf despatch  264–265, 278–279, 320
Runciman, Leslie  477–478
Runciman, Lord  300, 374, 397–398
mission to Czechoslovakia  410, 427, 429
Russo-Finnish war  538–539, 543–544
Russo-Polish war  83–84
Russo-Turkish treaty  131–133
Saarland  309
Salisbury, Lord  11–12, 15–16, 566
committee on the future independence of the RAF.  22–23, 97–98
disarmament  194, 207
‘Watching Committee’  533–535, 547–548
Samuel, Sir H.  99–100
Sanders, R.  15–16
Sassoon, S.  232–233
Scandinavian campaign  535–545
Schacht, H.  349–350, 386–387
Schuschnigg, K.  399–400
Scott, C. P.  95–96
Seeds, Sir W.  465–466
Selby, Sir W.  18–19, 257
Seligo, H.  471
Serbia  77–78
service departments
impact of Ten-Year rule and Churchill committee on  58–60
inter-service relations  22–23, 29
post-war plans for force structures  54–55
Seton-Watson, R. W.  437
Seyss-Inquart, A.  399–400
Shanghai  182–183
Shanghai Defence Force  179–185
Sharif Husein of Mecca  87–88
Sheppard, Reverend Dick  356–357
signals intelligence, see GC&CS
Sinclair, Sir A.  556
Simon, Sir J
Chancellor of the Exchequer and rearmament  374, 379–381, 401–402, 441, 453, 459–462, 495–496
East Fulham by-election  286, 313–314, 319–320
Foreign Policy committee  397–398, 410–411
Foreign Secretary  237–238
foreign exchange shortages  495–496
Home Secretary  315–316
Japan  299–300, 302–303
Manchurian crisis  250–252
Meeting with Hitler  309–311
mobilizing the home front  519, 521–522, 525–526, 528
Munich crisis  410–411, 427–428, 432–433
outbreak of war  500
peace terms  508–509
Stresa front and containing Germany  263, 304, 306–308, 312–313
USA  302–303
World Disarmament Conference and German rearmament  258–259, 261–263, 266–267, 269–270, 353–354
Singapore base
Abyssinian crisis  331, 335, 338
as deterrent  185–194, 488, 490, 493–494, 516, 567–568
London Naval treaty  210–211
work on stopped by Labour government  62, 186–187
DRC  280–282, 285–286, 291–293, 295–299
Sinn Fein  93–94, 130–131
SIS  30–33, 171–172, 240–242, 445–446, 511–512
Smuts, J. C.  71–72, 120–121, 137–138, 158, 296–297, 482–483
Snowden, P.  42
Society of British Aircraft Constructors  362–363
South Africa
defence of its ports  191
defence spending in 1920s  110
ethnic divisions  106
Hankey’s imperial tour  296–297
outbreak of war in 1939  482–483
war effort  528–529
Soviet alliance, failure to secure in 1939  463–472
Spanish Civil War  339, 345–346, 371–372, 384, 396–397, 399
Stanley, O.  397–398, 405, 411, 428–431, 534
Steel-Bartholomew report  380–381
Stalin, J.  174–175, 243–244, 310–311, 388, 419–420, 423–426, 428–429, 456–457, 465–466, 468, 471–472, 478–480, 543–544
Stamp. Lord  519, 525–527, 534
Steed, H. W.  437
stereotypes of foreigners  34–38, 243–245
Steward, G.  475–477
Stimson, H.  250–251
Stirrup, Sir J.  2–5
Strang, W.  427–428, 468
Stresa front  304–313, 328, 366–367, 570
Stresemann, G.  156–157, 159–160, 162–163, 206, 220–221
Supreme War Council and Anglo-French strategy 1939–40  488, 502–503, 505, 539–540, 542–543, 546–547, 551–552
Swinton, Lord  315–316, 360–362
Sykes, Sir F.  54–55, 101–102
Sykes-Picot agreement  87–88
Tangku treaty  252–253
Temperley, Colonel A. C.  266–267, 306–307
Templewood, Lord  
See Hoare, Sir S.
Ten-Year rule  7–8, 53–58, 64–65, 116–117, 574–575
demise  273–276
placed on rolling basis  202–203
Territorial army  68, 144–145, 176–177, 219–220, 282–283, 286, 291, 294–295, 318, 354–355, 359, 376–379, 382, 441, 450, 453–455, 458–462, 469–470, 473–474, 501
Thomas, J. H.  50–51, 342–343
Thyssen, F.  539–540
Tientsin crisis  479–480
Times  43–44, 142–143, 265–266, 277, 321–322, 333–334, 415, 454–455, 477–478, 497–498, 532–533, 548–549
Trans-Jordan  99–100
Treasury
defence spending and policy  23–25, 56, 58–59, 286–288, 300, 365–366, 379, 401–402, 462–463, 495–496, 507–508, 518–523, 526, 528
Treaty of Lausanne  145–149, 566–567
Treaty of Locarno  149–164, 566–567
Treaty of St Jean de Maurienne  88
Treaty of Sèvres  90–91
Treaty of Versailles  79–80
Trenchard, Sir H.  29, 44–45, 62, 95, 108, 143–144
TUC  171–172, 323–324, 346–347, 363–364, 418–419, 460
Turkey
Montreux Convention  340–341
Nationalist uprising  128–35
Tripartite treaty with Britain and France  462–463
Treaty of Lausanne  145–149
Treaty of Sèvres  88–91, 128
Nationalist uprising  128–135
Tyrell, Sir W.  38–39, 41–42, 82–83, 161, 164
Union of Democratic Control  48–49
United States of America
Contested British naval superiority 1919–22, challenged by IJN and USN  114–128
place in British grand strategy in First World War  69–70
rejection of Versailles treaty and League of Nations  82–83
USSR
containment of  169–179
Munich crisis  403–406, 419–420, 423–426, 432–433
Red Army  174–175
see also Bolshevism
Vansittart, Sir R.
Abyssinian crisis  331–332
Anglo-French relations  243–244, 257
Defence Requirements committee  236–238, 240–243, 245
Eden’s cold war policy towards Germany  391
Germany  266–267, 383, 386–387, 511–512
Great Depression  269
Henlein, Dr., K.  408–409
Japan  299–300
Manchurian crisis  250–251
Munich crisis  426–428
public opinion  318
private intelligence organization  240, 411, 426, 447–448
PUS Foreign Office  18–19, 238, 415
Rearmament  367
Ten-Year Rule  233
USA  299–300
USSR  310–311
World Disarmament conference  253–254
Venizelos, E.  89–90, 128–129
Voroshilov, Marshal  471–472
‘Wafd’  86, 91, 94–95, 341
war, attitudes towards  40–53
war plans  60–64
against Turkey, 1924–5  147–148
war scare in winter 1938–39  447–454
Washington Naval Conference  33, 114–128, 196–197, 566
Wauchope, Sir A.  342–343
Watson, A.  5–6
Wavell, Field Marshal Lord  4–5
Weir, Lord  54–55, 357–358
Wehrmacht  424–426, 439, 457–458, 478–479
Weizsäcker, E. von  411–412, 471
Wellesley, Sir V.  180–181, 243–244, 248, 251
Wells, H. G.  437
Wells, S.  393–394
Wenner-Gren, A.  477–478
Western Pact  349–351
Weygand, General M.  553–554
Wiedemann, Captain F.  410
Wigram, R.  35–36
Wilson, Sir A.  98–99
Wilson, Sir Henry  54–55, 59, 93–95, 218–219
Wilson, Sir Horace  371, 397–398, 414–415, 427–428, 431–432, 458–459, 475–478, 497–498, 503–504
Wilson, H. W.  4–5
Wilson, President W.
Fourteen Points  48–49, 79, 86, 114–115, 125–126, 165–166
League of Nations  48–49, 80–83, 115
strategy and war aims in First World War  21–24
USN  115
Winterton, Lord  401, 411, 428–431, 442–443
Wohlthat, Dr. H.  475–477
Wood, Sir K.  401, 441, 443–444, 532–533
Woodhead, Sir. J.  344
World Disarmament Conference  204–207, 253–268, 568
Young Plan  160, 168–169
Yugoslavia  77–78
Zaghlul, Sa’d  91, 97–98
Zinoviev letter  170–171