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The attitude of the conservative Baldwin government towards the attempts to create the system of collective security in the 1920s
Novotný, Lukáš ; Skřivan, Aleš (advisor) ; Kovář, Martin (referee) ; Moravcová, Dagmar (referee)
The postwar Europe was in a complicated position. It was necessary to create a system of a collective security to prevent events similar to the previous war after a period of terror. After a rejection of the United States of America to join the League of Nations, which would provide a functioning of a new order, Great Britain took over a role of the most important subject in creating of a new security system. The Stanley Baldwin Conservative government held a decisive role during negotiations about two essential concepts of the system of collective security (the Geneva Protocol, the Rhineland Pact) in the first half of the 1920s. The Cabinet primarily refused to ratify a document, on which participated a previous Labour government. It had several reasons: unlimited obligations, compulsory arbitration or automatic sanctions. The Rhineland Pact from October 1925 meant a victory of the socalled moderates within the Conservative Party. It refused both a return to the policy of the splendid isolation and an idea of an exclusion of Germany from international relations. The agreement also embodied an idea, which meant the only possible solution on a field of the collective security for Conservatives - an idea of separate treaties that would include limited obligations of Western Europe only. The result of the...

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