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 3. Débidour, Histoire diplomatique de l'Europe contemporaine, 1814–78.

4. (a) Treaties, as above, and Hertslet, The Map of Europe by Treaty.

(b) Phillimore (W. G. F.), Three Centuries of Treaties of Peace and their Teaching.

The author has attempted to show how, and how far, the condition of Europe at the outset of the War of 1914 was due to previous diplomatic settlements, and 'how war could be prevented and how it could be humanized and regulated if it did occur'. He makes the broad assertion, that 'treaties of the eighteenth century give us lessons in regulation; treaties of the nineteenth, in humanization; while the twentieth century began with attempts at prevention, imperfect unhappily, and too weak to stand severe strain, but not without value as guides to a more perfect scheme in the future'.

5. The Crown, Ministers, Parliament, and the Conduct of Foreign Policy.

The treatment of this subject in books is inadequate.

Anson, Law and Custom of the Constitution: The Crown; Todd, Parliamentary Government in England; Bagehot, The