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Collective Security and American Foreign Policy; From the League of Nations to Nato.
Collective Security and American Foreign Policy From the League of Nations to Nato Author:Roland N. Stromberg General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1963 Original Publisher: Praeger Subjects: Security, International International organization United States International relations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you bu... more »y the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ///. America and World Peace in the 1920 s The Decline of Collective Security Of The two decades between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II, economist W. Arthur Lewis has remarked that, to future historians, "they will appear at the same time among the saddest, the most exciting, and the most formative in human history. . . . There can have been few periods of 21 years into which so much experience has been packed. ... An age of dislocation and an age of experiment."1 The League of Nations was one vessel into which sadness, excitement, hope, and perhaps formation were packed. There were also the rise of Communism, Fascism, and Nazism and a terrible economic depression, along with "vast experiments designed to eliminate it." There were an intense pacifism and new forms of violence, along with much brilliance and disturbance in the worlds of thought, literature, and art. The doctrine of collective security was only one ingredient in this explosjyemixture. It was fated, however, to plajLjio small part in the as yet largely unevaluated tragedy of these years that saw one war breed another, greater war. Though the League of Nations became a flourishing institution, the idea of enforced peace declined during the 1920's. There was as much of a battle over Article 10 at Geneva, beginning with the first meeting, as there had been in the U. S. Senate. Canada led the onslaught against it, demanding nothing less than its complete suppression (which ranged the Ca...« less