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Chief among the personnel at the Foreign Office is the Permanent Under-secretary, the senior civil servant who oversees the department and advises the Foreign Secretary. This book is a study of the twelve men who held this office from 1854 to 1946.

A major re-interpretation of international relations from Versailles to the outbreak of war in 1939. The book argues that the new world order created in 1919 provided inadequate means the League of Nations, arms control and public censure - to deal with the threats of Communism, Nazism, fascism and Japanese expansionism.