Imperialism and sovereignty: The League of Nations' drive to control the global arms trade

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages

  Stone, David R ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0010128330     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002200940003500204     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. For American non-participation, see F.P. Walters, A History of the League of Nations (London 1 952), 72-3
2. Sally Marks, The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe, 1918-1933 (New York 1976), 14
3. Two exceptions to general disappointment with the League are George Scott, whose The Rise and Fall of the League of Nations (New York 1973), 400-1
4. Gerald J. Mangone, whose A Short History of International Organization (New York 1954), 128-54, is similarly positive
5. Felix Morley, The Society of Nations: Its Organization and Constitutional Development (Washington 1932), 606
6. Wallace McClure, World Prosperity as Sought through the Economic Work of the League of Nations (New York 1933), 25
7. David Armstrong, Lorna Lloyd and John Redmond, From Versailles to Maastricht: International Organizations in the Twentieth Century (London 1996), 22
8. Claudena Skran, Refugees in Inter-War Europe: The Emergence of a Regime (Oxford 1995), esp. 3-9
9. Antony Alcock, History of the International Labour Organisation (London 1 97 1); Claudena Skran, Refugees in Inter-War Europe: The Emergence of a Regime (Oxford 1995), esp. 3-9
10. See Elton Atwater, 'British Control Over the Export of War Materials', American Journal of International Law, 33 (1939), 292-317, esp. 292-4
11. H. C., Allen, Great Britain and the United States: A History of Anglo-American Relations (1783-1952) (New York 1955), 486-91
12. Hague Conventions, 13th Convention, chap. 1, art. 6 in James Brown Scott (ed.), The Hague Conventions and Declarations of i899 and 1907 (New York 1915), 210
13. Third Commission report on 13th Convention in James Brown Scott (ed.), The Reports to the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907 (Oxford 1917), 844
14. James Brown Scott, The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 (Baltimore 1909), 628
15. Along with the arms trade convention, two other treaties were signed that day in St Germainen-Laye: the peace treaty with Austria and a convention of the Powers on policy in colonial territories. See Dictionnaire Diplomatique, vol. 2, 631-4; 'Convention for the Control of the Trade in Arms and Ammunition' in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 7, 332-3
16. Report of the Temporary Mixed Commission on Armaments', 15 September 1921: LNA, Assembly A81.1921 [ix-1], 14
17. 'Secretary-General memorandum 'Resolutions of the Assembly on the Subject of Armaments', 26 January 1921: LNA, Council 21/4/17 [ix-1], 2
18. Joseph C. Green, 'Supervising the American Traffic in Arms', Foreign Affairs, 15 (1937), 730
19. Betty Glad, Charles Evans Hughes and the Illusions of Innocence (Urbana 1966), 174-8; Secretary of State to Harding, 2 August 1922: FRUS 1922, vol. 1, 551-3. See also correspondence in FRUS 1922, vol. 1, 547-55; Hughes to Grew (Minister in Switzerland), 8 February 1924: FRUS 1924, vol. 1, 28
20. Gibson is better known for his role as a neutral American diplomat in occupied Belgium during the early days of the first world war. See Hugh Gibson, 1883-1954 (New York 1956). On the make-up of the American delegation, see FRUS 1925, vol. 1, 27
21. Paul-Boncour speech, 6 May 1925: LNA, A.13.1925.IX [ix-6], 143. Paul-Boncour's Entre Deux Guerres: Souvenirs sur la IIIe République (New York 1946), book II, 183, includes some brief thoughts on the Arms Traffic Conference
22. 'Resolutions and Recommendations Adopted on the Report of the Third Committee', 22 and 25 September 1925, League of Nations Special Supplement, 32 (October 1925). 20-1
23. John Stanley and Maurice Pearton, The International Trade in Arms (New York 1972), 25