ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an analysis of the present method of conducting foreign affairs and the present relationships between Parliament and the Foreign Office. It will be sufficient to enter into some of the broader considerations with regard to the practical means of introducing some sort of popular control in the management of foreign affairs. It argues that the question of practicability from the desirability of democratic control. Certain reforms of electoral methods likely to be established in the near future, together with the extension of the franchise to the adult population of both sexes, will help to broaden the basis of democracy, and to secure a more truly representative system of government. There has been a tendency, consequent on mere declarations of statesmen, to over-estimate the strength of democracy, or rather, perhaps, to under-estimate the power of the old forces that have held sway for so long.
