- EAN13
- 9780889207387
- Éditeur
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Date de publication
- 08/03/1983
- Langue
- anglais
- Langue d'origine
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
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Covenants Without The Sword
Public Opinion and British Defence Policy 1931-1935
Patrick Kyba
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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This book constitutes a major and comprehensive reevaluation of British
defence policy in the early 1930s.The author traces the evolution of British
opinion toward rearmament, from opposition to approval, between 1931 and 1935
and assesses the impact of this opinion on the formation of the Government's
defence policy. He places public opinion among the many factors which
determined the extent and timing of British rearmament during this period and
concludes that the leaders of those Governments were not "Guilty Men" who let
political considerations overrule their responsibility for national security,
but rather prudent men who decided on rearmament before it was publicly
acceptable.
Documented from such sources as newspaper editorials, cabinet papers, speeches
of Members of Parliament, and results of by-elections, the book will be of
interest to historians, students of policy decisions and public opinion, and
persons interested in the events leading to World War II.
defence policy in the early 1930s.The author traces the evolution of British
opinion toward rearmament, from opposition to approval, between 1931 and 1935
and assesses the impact of this opinion on the formation of the Government's
defence policy. He places public opinion among the many factors which
determined the extent and timing of British rearmament during this period and
concludes that the leaders of those Governments were not "Guilty Men" who let
political considerations overrule their responsibility for national security,
but rather prudent men who decided on rearmament before it was publicly
acceptable.
Documented from such sources as newspaper editorials, cabinet papers, speeches
of Members of Parliament, and results of by-elections, the book will be of
interest to historians, students of policy decisions and public opinion, and
persons interested in the events leading to World War II.
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