Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922

ESSAYS IN LIBERALISM

PREFACE

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE REHABILITATION OF EUROPE - By the Rt. Hon. Lord Robert Cecil - K.C., M.P., Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1918. Minister of Blockade, 1916-1918. Representative of Union of South Africa at Assembly of League of Nations.

THE BALANCE OF POWER - By Professor A.F. Pollard - Hon. Litt.D.; Fellow of All Souls’ College, Oxford; F.B.A.; Professor of English History in the University of London; Chairman of the Institute of Historical Research.

INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT - By Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, K.C.M.G., C.B. - Director of Military Operations—Imperial General Staff, 1915-16.

REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBT - By John Maynard Keynes - M.A., C.B.; Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; Editor of Economic Journal since 1912; principal representative of the Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference, and Deputy for the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council, Jan.-June, 1919.

THE OUTLOOK FOR NATIONAL FINANCE - By Sir Josiah Stamp, K.B.E., D.Sc. - Assistant Secretary Board of Inland Revenue, 1916-19. Member of Royal Commission on Income Tax, 1919.

FREE TRADE - By Rt. Hon. J.M. Robertson - P.C.; President of National Liberal Federation since 1920; M.P. (L.), Tyneside Division, Northumberland, 1906-18; Parliamentary Secretary to Board of Trade, 1911-15.

INDIA - By Sir Hamilton Grant - K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E.; Chief Commissioner, North-West Frontier Province, India; Deputy Commissioner of various Frontier districts; Secretary to Frontier Administration; Foreign Secretary, 1914-19; negotiated Peace Treaty with Afghanistan, 1919.

EGYPT - By J.A. Spender - Editor of the Westminster Gazette, 1896 to 1922; Member of the Special Mission to Egypt, 1919-1920.