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- 1928 Oct 12 (Creation)
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Item
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1 cutting
Scope and content
Typescript of article by Hamilton for the New York Herald Tribune Armistice Day edition, on the unjust peace of the Treaty of Versailles; the danger of continued anti-German propaganda and Anglo-French manoeuvres in the Rhineland; the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 27 Aug 1928; Prussian Gen Karl Maria von Clausewitz, military theorist, and German militarism; the danger of continental commitments as exemplified by the Anglo-French 'military conversations' prior to World War One; the futility of operations on the Western Front. With article by 'Candidus', [the Daily Sketch], on the account given by Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan, in his Autobiography (Hodder and Stoughton, London,1929) on the Anglo-French 'military conversations'. 28pp, 1 cutting