The Dilemma of British Foreign Policy.

UNITED Kingdom; FRANCE; ITALY; GERMANY

Focuses on the foreign policy of Great Britain. Statement of Great Britain's ex Prime Minister David Lloyd George that Great Britain has not carried her point about the League of Nations but has managed to add the bitter enmity of Italy to that of France and intensify British isolation; Report that it can hardly be denied that today France exercises a military hegemony much more complete than that which in the past provoked British resistance in the shape of wars lasting generations; Report that while most of the politically conscious press of all parties has supported the government in its fight with Italy for vindication of the League, the popular and less political press of the Rothermere, Hulton and Beaverbrook trusts is all violently anti-League and the first is maliciously critical of the government's entire policy; View that a policy of complete isolation and intensive imperial development must include one of thorough going imperial defense based on the maintenance of naval preponderance with coal stations, open lines of sea communications, etc.; Alternative to the government's present foreign policy to share the French hegemony and cooperate in the more or less permanent subjugation of Germany; Information on the two possible courses for Great Britain--return to the ancient balance of power or the transformation of Europe into a community of power; Report that the thing which made the realist policy impossible was those who boast of their realism, the anti-League Die-hards supported by the anti-League and anti-Hun popular press; View that only under internationalist or League policy can the inevitable drawing nearer to Germany be made the means of French or Italian security.