Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. ILLUSTRATIONS xi
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. Book One: The Twenties
7. A NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS 14
8. THE OLD TRADITION IN A NEW ERA
9. Chapter 1. The British Foreign Office from Grey to Austen Chamberlain 15
10. Chapter 2. The French Foreign Office: The Era of Philippe Berthelot 49
11. DIPLOMACY AT GENEVA
12. Chapter 3. Sweden: The Diplomacy of Osten Unden 86
13. Chapter 4. Czechoslovakia: The Diplomacy of Eduard Benes 100
14. THE STRUGGLE FOR NEW POSITION
15. Chapter 5. Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Early Weimar Republic 123
16. Chapter 6. Turkish Diplomacy from Mudros to Lausanne 172
17. Chapter 7. The Early Diplomacy of Italian Fascism, 1922-1932 210
18. Chapter 8. Soviet Diplomacy: G. V. Chicherin, Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs, 1918-1930 234
19. ON THE SIDELINES
20. Chapter 9. The Department of State and American Public Opinion 282
21. Book Two: The Thirties
22. FIGHTERS FOR LOST CAUSES
23. Chapter 10. Arthur Henderson 311
24. Chapter 11. Maxim Litvinov 344
25. Chapter 12. Alexis Saint-Leger Leger 378
26. THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE
27. Chapter 13. The German Foreign Office from Neurath to Ribbentrop 406
28. Chapter 14. Three Observers in Berlin: Rumbold, Dodd, and Francois-Poncet 437
29. Chapter 15. Two German Ambassadors: Dirksen and Schulenburg 477
30. THE TWILIGHT OF DIPLOMACY
31. Chapter 16. Ciano and his Ambassadors 512
32. Chapter 17. Two British Ambassadors: Perth and Henderson 537
33. Chapter 18. The Voice in the Wilderness: Robert Coulondre 555
34. Chapter 19. The Diplomacy of Colonel Beck 579
35. REACTIONS TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM
36. Chapter 20. Yosuke Matsuoka and the Japanese-German Alliance 615
37. Chapter 21. Two American Ambassadors: Bullitt and Kennedy 649
38. List of Contributors 682
39. Index 685