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Frederic Herbert Maugham, first Viscount Maugham
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'This learned nobleman': (Archdeacon William Coxe on Shcherbatov, 1784): Mikhail Shcherbatov’s British connections
About the book: This collection of essays, which honours Professor Anthony Cross and his work on Imperial Russia's eighteenth-century culture and connections with Britain, brings together contributions from sixteen leading scholars in the field of eighteenth-century Russian studies. They address a wide range of topics in the diplomatic, social, cultural, literary and linguistic history of the period, including its international dimensions. Their essays represent a significant addition to scholarship on Russia's `long' eighteenth century
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Maynard Keynes and the 'Bamboozlement' of Woodrow Wilson: What really happened at Paris? (Wilson, Lloyd George, pensions and pre-armistice agreement)
Woodrow Wilson's acceptance of Lloyd George's demand for the inclusion of military pensions among the reparations payable to the Allies under the Treaty of Versailles was stigmatised by J.M. Keynes in The Economic Consequences of the Pece as the most notorious of the President's alleged breaches of faith with Germany. Keynes's damning verdict remains virtyally unquestioned. This paper reconsiders the case for pensions, suggests that the question was less clear-cut than Keynes insisted, and queries his influential account of Wilson's supposed gullibility and culpability. The paper then considers Lloyd George's intentions in the Pre-armistice agreement, from which the Allied right to reparations and pensions were derived
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Lloyd George and the lost peace: from Versailles to Hitler, 1919-1940
This lively and original book re-evaluates Lloyd George's part, crucial but enigmatic, in the `lost peace' of Versailles. Each chapter examines a separate episode between 1919 and 1940. The first chapters review Lloyd George's protean role at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, his strategy of `making Germany pay' and the part played in it by Lord Cunliffe, ex-Governor of the Bank of England; the causes and consequences of Lloyd George's abortive guarantee treaty to France; and the emergence at the conference of the phenomenon of `Appeasement' -the `worm in the bud'. The final chapters reassess the two episodes commonly considered most damaging to Lloyd George's reputation: his visit to Hitler in 1936 and his bids to halt World War II after the fall of Poland. The author sees Lloyd George as both mercurial and consistent: brilliant and volatile in method, but constant in furthering Britain's interests through his personal diplomacy