By Stephanie C. Salzmann
The treaty of Rapallo, concluded in 1922 among Germany and the Soviet Union, the 2 vanquished powers of the nice conflict, ranks excessive one of the diplomatic coups de shock of the 20th century. Its actual significance, besides the fact that, lies within the repercussions of the alliance at the next rules of the 2 triumphant powers, Britain and France. This research examines the influence of Rapallo on British overseas coverage among 1922 and 1934, whilst the German-Soviet courting had nearly ended. The "ghost of Rapallo" is the vital topic of this tale, as ever because the treaty's end Rapallo has been a byword for Soviet-German mystery and in all probability risky collaboration. This booklet describes how the British seen the Rapallo co-operation, how they handled this specified courting, and the way the lingering reminiscence of Rapallo affected British coverage for many years to come back. whereas interpreting a selected element of diplomacy it throws extra gentle on broader issues of eu relatives within the Nineteen Twenties and early Nineteen Thirties. Dr Stephanie Salzmann accomplished her PhD at Trinity corridor, Cambridge.
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3. 42 Cabinet conclusion, 30 June 1922, CAB 23/30. 43 Wirth to D’Abernon, 25 July 1922, ADAP, ser. A, vi, doc. 158. 44 Lampson minute, 26 July 1922, PRO, FO 371/7569/C 10444; Lampson minute, 27 July 1922, FO 371/7569/C 10631; Balfour memo, 1 Aug. 1922, FO 371/8793/C 13587. 45 Lampson minute, 26 July 1922, PRO, FO 371/7569/C 10444 (original emphasis). 46 Aufzeichnung Maltzan, 22 July 1922, ADAP, ser. A, vi, doc. 158. 47 French objections, and a growing feeling that Germany had overstepped the mark in her demands, cooled British interest in a German application in the summer of 1922.
Britain also had to consider French misgivings about Germany’s entry into the League. 44 Lampson’s warning ‘not to overdo it and not to justify the accusation of the French that we, the British, had been more German than the Germans in our efforts to get her in’45 was necessary. D’Abernon, in his enthusiasm for the German case, was once again in danger of exceeding his brief. e. 46 Yet 41 Drummond to FO, 12 June 1922, PRO, FO 371/7568/C 8576; Sthamer to AA, 6 July 1922, ADAP, ser. A, vi, doc. 128, n.
He argued that German admission to the League and the Council was also strongly in France’s interest. 42 D’Abernon therefore talked to Reichskanzler Wirth, who told the ambassador that his government would find it very difficult to take up the British suggestion. The League, Wirth argued, was identified with the treaty of Versailles, which Germany would not sign for a second time. Therefore, the German preconditions for an entry into the League were that Berlin was spared another humiliating formal recognition of the peace treaty, and that she would get a seat on the Council.