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2. For Smuts’ urging along these lines, see his speech, ‘The
Commonwealth Conception’, 15 May 1917, reprinted in J. C. Smuts,
Plans for a Better World (1942), p. 42.
3. Fry, Illusions, pp. 8–9.
4. H. and M. Sprout, Towards a New Order of Sea Power (2nd edn,
Princeton, 1946,) p. 285.
5. Foreign Office memorandum on the Neutralisation of the
Rhineland, 7 April 1923, in W. N. Medlicott, D. Dakin and M. E.
Lambert (eds.), Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1st series,
vol. XXI (1978)p.195.
6. House of Lords Record Office, Bonar Law Papers 111/12/40,
Bonar Law to Curzon, 7 December 1922.
7. BLIOC, Curzon Papers, Mss Eur. F112/286, R. McNeill to Curzon,
28 January 1923.
8. The Anglo-American agreement was eventually signed on 18 June
1923. See A. Orde, British Policy and European Reconstruction after
the First World War (Cambridge, 1990), pp. 233–7.
9. Memo by Austen Chamberlain, 4 January 1925. Documents on
British Foreign Policy, 1st series, vol.XXVII (1986), p. 256.
10. Note by Hankey, 23 January 1925, Documents on British Foreign
Policy, 1st series, vol. XXVII (1986), pp. 286–7.
11. Memo by H. Nicolson, 20 February 1925, circulated to Cabinet.
Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1st series, vol. XXVII (1986),
p. 316.
12. P. Towle, ‘British Security and Disarmament Policy in Europe in
the 1920s’, in R. Ahmann, A. Birke and M. Howard (eds.), The Quest
for Stability (1993), pp. 129–30.
13. Note by Chamberlain, 12 October 1925, Documents on British
Foreign Policy, 1st series, vol. XXVII, p. 866.
14. I. Bowman, The New World (4th edn, New York, 1928), p. 745.
Bowman played a leading part in founding the Council on Foreign
Relations. For his career, see N. Smith, American Empire: Roosevelt’s