ABSTRACT
This essay was first published as a review of Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939, edited by E.L. Woodward and Rohan Butler, Second Series, Vol. 7: 1929-1934 (London, HMSO, 1958), in the Manchester Guardian (3 April 1958). Louis Barthou, who was foreign secretary and a right-wing figure in the national government, was killed when King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated in Marseille in October 1934.
