During this interesting research, Carolyn Kitching examines the position which Britain performed on the Geneva Disarmament convention, an occasion which marked a watershed in inter-war diplomacy. Failure to arrive contract in Geneva hastened the cave in of the Treaty of Versailles, and gave the fairway gentle for German re-armament. Britain used to be arguably the one strength able to mediating among conflicting French and German calls for over the Treaty's disarmament clauses, and this research unearths that the conventional interpretation of British coverage on the convention should be greatly revised.
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