French Cafe » 1930s http://www.ot-maurice.com Your Connection To Everything French Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:47 +0000 en hourly 1 International Arbitration, The Pacific Settlement of Disputes and the French Security-Disarmament Dilemma (1919-1931) http://www.ot-maurice.com/international-arbitration-the-pacific-settlement-of-disputes-and-the-french-security-disarmament-dilemma-1919-1931/ http://www.ot-maurice.com/international-arbitration-the-pacific-settlement-of-disputes-and-the-french-security-disarmament-dilemma-1919-1931/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 21:32:17 +0000 admin http://www.ot-maurice.com/international-arbitration-the-pacific-settlement-of-disputes-and-the-french-security-disarmament-dilemma-1919-1931/ International arbitration played an ambiguous role in French planning over national security during the years following the First World War, as policymakers faced the challenge of dealing with the powerful post-war movement in favour of international disarmament. It was a French-driven initiative in 1924 that accorded arbitration a central role as a means to ensure the pacific settlement of international disputes, yet policymakers in Paris remained for the most part convinced that arbitration on its own could never be certain enough to safeguard France. Though they would continue to support the cause of arbitration into the early 1930s, as a means to expand the powers available to the League Council, they rejected the idea that disarmament could follow from a mere increase of confidence or an ethos of goodwill. Disarmament could only follow from concrete measures to underpin security, namely commitments of military assistance against unprovoked aggression. These could be organized through the League or bilaterally, but they could not be substituted for by arbitration.

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]]> http://www.ot-maurice.com/international-arbitration-the-pacific-settlement-of-disputes-and-the-french-security-disarmament-dilemma-1919-1931/feed/ 0 A La Recherche D’Une Guerre Gagnee: The Ligue Des Droits De L’Homme and the War Guilt Question (1918-1922) http://www.ot-maurice.com/a-la-recherche-dune-guerre-gagnee-the-ligue-des-droits-de-lhomme-and-the-war-guilt-question-1918-1922/ http://www.ot-maurice.com/a-la-recherche-dune-guerre-gagnee-the-ligue-des-droits-de-lhomme-and-the-war-guilt-question-1918-1922/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 21:32:17 +0000 admin http://www.ot-maurice.com/a-la-recherche-dune-guerre-gagnee-the-ligue-des-droits-de-lhomme-and-the-war-guilt-question-1918-1922/ Initially conceived as an organization dedicated to the defence of human rights on an individual scale, during the Great War the Ligue des droits de l’homme took the avowedly political position of supporting the Union sacrée. The bona fides of France’s crusade against Germany was vigorously contested by a minority within the Ligue, however, which not only rejected the imputation of unique war guilt to Germany after the war but also questioned the purity of French motives, especially in the light of France’s 1894 alliance with Russia. The immediate post-First World War period set the parameters of a debate that would destroy the Ligue in the 1930s.

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