ABSTRACT
This book examines the careers of the men who served as British foreign secretary between 1919 and 1939, focusing in particular on the ways in which they sought to mould foreign policy during their time in office. A vast amount has of course been written on international relations during the inter-war years, including a number of valuable biographies about the various individuals who headed the Foreign Office, but there has been less interest in analysing the complex array of factors that helped to determine the modus operandi of a particular foreign secretary.1 The chapters that follow are designed to help fill this gap in the literature.
