Doing the impossible
James Joll, 7 May 1981
Retreat from Power: Studies in Britain’s Foreign Policy of the 20th Century
edited by David Dilks.
Macmillan, 213 pp., £10, February 1981,0 333 28910 2 Show More
edited by David Dilks.
Macmillan, 213 pp., £10, February 1981,
“... and diplomatic tasks which confronted her. ‘The plain fact which cannot be obscured,’ Sir Thomas Inskip, the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, said in February 1938, ‘is that it is beyond the resources of this country to make proper provision in peace for the defence of the British Empire against three major powers in three different ... ”