Review: Europe: Britain in Tomorrow's World
| Author | Trevor Lloyd |
| Date | 01 March 1973 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207302800120 |
| Published date | 01 March 1973 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS
1773
the
end
may
explain
something,
but
there
had
been
plenty
of
time
in
the
Paris
winter
of
1939-40
to
size
up
the
situation.
Harvey
had
often
condemned
Sir
Eric
Phipps
for his
wretched,
prejudiced
reporting
from
France,
but
he
himself
seems
to
have
made
limited inquiries.
His
circle
of
acquaintances,
though
it
eschewed
the
likes
of
Caillaux,
nevertheless
seemed
to
stop
short in admiration
with
people
so
captivating
and
yet
so
finally
empty
as
Herriot.
One
of
his
interesting
personal
verdicts
(with perhaps
just
a
shade
of
substance
to
it)
concerns
Jean
Monnet,
whom he
judged
'a
mixture
of
gangster
and
conspirator,'
even
though
'in
England
they
think
him
the
cat's pyjamas.'
Touches
like
that,
pub-
lished
in
1970,
underline
the
authenticity
of
this
journal
which
brings
alive
once
more
the
pre-war
atmosphere
of
Whitehall
and
that
strange
opening
year
of
the
war
in
France.
The
editing,
by
John
Harvey,
the
diplomat's
son,
is
light;
there
are
a
few
misidentifications
of
persons.
A
selection of
apposite
letters
to
Eden
and
Halifax
(whom
Harvey
served
after
Eden's
departure,
equally
loyally,
if
without
passion)
is
appended.
The
late
Lord
Harvey's
inten-
tion
that
his
diaries
unadorned
should
contribute
something
to
the
understanding
of
his
times
is
realized.
John
C.
Cairns/University
of
Toronto
BRITAIN
IN
TOMORROW'S WORLD
Principles
of
Foreign Policy
Grant
Hugo
London:
Chatto
&
Windus [Toronto:
Clarke,
Irwin],
1969,
256pp,
$8.40
Mr
Hugo
has
set
out
to
define
the
principles
underlying
British
foreign
policy,
and
his final
conclusion
is
in
terms
that
may be
general
enough
to
be
applied
to
other
states
as
well.
The
argument
is
that
'the
purpose
of
foreign
policy
is
to
promote
the
independence
and
authority
of
the
[particular]
nation-state,
to
the
extent
that
these
are
compatible with
preservation
of
the
existing
social
order,
with
national
aspirations
and
with
national
capacities'
(p
168).
One
trouble
with
this formula
is
that
almost
anything
can
be
squeezed
into
it.
Mr
Hugo
sees
that
Britain's
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