Wikisource

Page:Diplomacy and the Study of International Relations (1919).djvu/196

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
174
The Literature of International Relations

mentary Debates, e.g. on the Anglo-German Agreement and the Cession of Heligoland,[1] and on the motion in the House of Commons, March 19, 1918, that, 'in the opinion of this House, a Standing Committee of Foreign Affairs should be appointed, representative of all parties and groups in the House, in order that a regular channel of communication may be established between the Foreign Secretary and the House of Commons which will afford him frequent opportunities of giving information on questions of Foreign policy and which, by allowing Members to acquaint themselves more fully with current international problems, will enable this House to exercise closer supervision over the general conduct of Foreign affairs;'[2] Keith, Responsible Government in the British Dominions;[3] The Oxford Survey of the British Empire;[4] Extracts from Minutes of Proceedings laid before the Imperial War Conference, 1917;[5] The War Cabinet: Report for the Year 1917.[6]

The subject is almost entirely ignored by A. Lawrence Lowell, The Government of England,[7] and by Sydney Low,

  1. ↑ 3rd series, vol. cccxlvi–cccxlvii. See below, Appendix, pp. 260–3.
  2. ↑ Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, March 19, 1918, vol. 104, especially the speech of the Foreign Secretary (Mr. A. J. Balfour), 864–76. See below, Appendix, pp. 265–9.
  3. ↑ 3 vols., 1912. See vol. iii, pp. 1102, 1126–30.
  4. ↑ 6 vols., 1914, vol. i, General Survey, especially pp. 32, 54, 59, 84, 89, 114, 117. 'The diplomatic and consular services form the Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office, the eyes and ears of the State. They demand an Odyssean capacity for discovering the riddle of a foreign Government's intentions and for reading rightly the face of events. The diplomatic eye must, where necessary, see through the most authoritative of denials'—ch. ii, pp. 74–5, Barrington-Ward on 'The Foreign Office and its Agents'.
  5. ↑ Cd. 8566, p. 61. See below, Appendix, p. 282.
  6. ↑ Cd. 9005, pp. vi–vii. See below, Appendix, pp. 282–4.
  7. ↑ 2 vols., 1908. See vol. i, pp. 45–6 and 86–7.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Diplomacy_and_the_Study_of_International_Relations_(1919).djvu/196&oldid=11672745"