2017-№4 (57) Article 10

Akchurina O.S., Demidov S.V.

From the British empire to the Commonwealth of Nations. P.81- 85.

UDC 947

The article examines the impact of the First World War on the evolution of strategic planning in the UK. The authors show the linkage of the approach of a prominent British politician and a public fig-ures to the idea of creating the first universal peace organization with the intentions of transforming the British Empire into the Commonwealth of Nations.

 

British Empire, Commonwealth of Nations, League of Nations, R. Cecil.

 

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