DOCUMENTS ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 1933 EDITED BY JOHN W.
WHEELER-BENNETT PREFACE THE outstanding events of international
interest during the year 1933 were connected, directly or
indirectly, with the concentrated efforts to solve the problem
which dominated all othersthe problem of FrancoGerman Relations and
the attainment of a Disarmament Convention. There were undoubtedly
other important aspects of international affairs during the same
period, but all were over shadowed by the drama which was played
first at Geneva and latterly in the capitals of Europe. For this
reason the greater part of the Documents Volume for 1933 is devoted
to Disarmament and its attendant problems of Security and of the
German Claim to Equality. The 1932 Volume closed with the FivePower
Agreement of December 11, which paved the way for the return of
Germany to the Disarmament Conference in January 1933. The present
volume, therefore, begins with the British Draft Convention of
March 1933, and includes all relevant documents both on this phase
and also on the negotiations which culminated in the signature of
the FourPower Pact in July, the second withdrawal of Germany in
October, and the subsequent diplomatic conversations between the
Powers. Because these were prolonged until well into the spring of
the present year, and because it was considered more useful to give
a complete documentation of the subject, it was decided to include
the memoranda exchanged up to the final French Note of April 17,
1934, which terminated the AngloFrench and Anglo German exchanges.
The whole story up to the eve of the reconvening of the General
Commission on May 29 is therefore to be found under one cover and
is thus made easy for reference. Other important events of which
the documents are given are the World Economic Conference, the
principal pronouncements on the Gold Clause in international
agreements, the negotiations which pre ceded the token War Debts
payments to the United States in June and December, the situation
created by the activities of the NationalSocialist Party in
Austria, the German Concordat with the Holy See, the recognition of
the U.S.S.R. by the United States, and the PanAmerican Conference
at Montevideo. Dictates of space have necessitated the omission of
much other interesting material. The difficulty of choice has been
very great responsibility and blame for selection lies with the
Editor. Some surprise may be felt that such vital documents as the
laws governing the National Recovery Administration in the United
States, the Italian Corporations Bill, and the Enabling Act passed
by the German Reichstag onMarch 23, 1933, find no place in this
volume. Undoubtedly these documents have very great international
implica tions and repercussions, but in themselves they are matters
of purely domestic legislation and therefore lie outside the terms
of reference of a volume of Documents on International Affairs. All
these docu ments, however, and many others, will be found in the
collection of the Information Department at Chatham House and may
be con sulted there.
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