Whitehall, Washington, and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1919-1921
1972; University of California Press; Volume: 41; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3638396
ISSN1533-8584
Autores Tópico(s)World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
ResumoImperial Conference of 1921 were crucial in determining whether Britain would remain allied with Japan. J. Bartlett Brebner, J. Chal Vinson, and M. G. Fry have presented different views, however, about the policies and successes of each Dominion at this conference. Did the eloquence of Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Meighen change the minds of British leaders, influencing them to abandon the alliance? Or did the Dominions come to the imperial meeting prepared to drop the Anglo-Japanese tie in order to improve relations with the United States? Or was there a division of opinion about the alliance at the conference, and in Whitehall, which led to a compromise solution: to renew temporarily the bond with Japan and to seek a broader treaty at Washington? The issue is important, for it concerns the genesis of what is viewed generally as a vital turning point in British Far Eastern policy.1
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