Paths Not Taken: British Labour and International Policy in the 1920s

Distinguished historian Henry Winkler examines the changing and often contradictory views that characterized the British Labour party’s approach to foreign policy from the end of World War I through the 1920s. He documents the progression from Labour’s general indifference toward international issues before World War I, to its almost total rejection of the prevailing international order after the war, to its eventual grudging acceptance of the need to work for international cooperation thro...