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This chapter explains how British policy-makers re-shaped the immediate post-war settlement in ways that gave them peace combined with security. At the Washington conference the British contained the American threat to their global naval supremacy, and the Japanese threat to their regional security in the Far East. The British public wanted arms limitation agreements, and British policy-makers gave it to them, and they did so in a way that enhanced the security of their empire. They also succeed in blunting the threat to the peace and security of Europe and the Middle East. By 1922 the combination of the Russo-Turkish treaty and the Russo-German treaty signed at Rapallo meant that the three major revisionist powers, the USSR, Germany, and Turkey, had come together in a potentially dangerous grouping intent on overturning the post-war settlement. Over the next four years the British broke up that alliance. The Treaty of Lausanne, the Dawes Plan, the Locarno pact, and the settlement of the Mosul dispute created, at least temporarily, the kind of stable settlement they needed to safeguard their imperial security. By 1926 Britain was the world’s only global power. The Americans might h

Author

David French

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN