Abstract
In Manchuria on 18 September 1931 while Britain, preoccupied with the economic crisis, was recovering from the shock of the naval mutiny and about to face the abandonment of the Gold Standard, Japan’s Kwantung Army opened ‘a new chapter of violence’ in international affairs.1
‘Historically the connection between our naval strength and our relations with Japan has always been recognised.’
(Board Memo ‘A New Standard of Naval Strength, 26 April 1937, ADM 1/9081.)
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Notes and References
G. T. Davis, A Navy Second to None (Connecticut, 1940/1971) p. 351.
Capt M. D. Kennedy, The Estrangement of Great Britain and Japan 1917- 1935 (1969) p. 173.
Referred to in 254th CID, 2 December 1931, CAB 2/5.
W. Hancock and M. Gowing, British War Economy (1949) p. 63.
CID paper 1082-B, 23 February 1932.
Cabinet meeting, 23 March 1932 (19) 32, CAB 23/70.
Lord Chatfield, It Might Happen Again (1947) p. 78.
Davis, A Navy Second to None, p. 356.
S. W. Roskill, Naval Policy Between the Wars (1976) vol. II, p. 144.
Chatfield, It Might Happen Again, p. 78.
Hancock and Gowing, British War Economy, p. 63.
R. P. Shay, British Rearmament in the 1930s (Princeton, 1977) p. 18.
Ibid, p. 71.
The First Lord, quoted in Roskill, Naval Policy, vol. II, p. 146.
Director of Torpedoes and Mining, 1918–20; Third Sea Lord and Controller, 1920–3; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, 1925–8; C-in-C Mediterranean, 1928–30; First Sea Lord, 1930–3.
From Roskill, Naval Policy, vol. II, p. 150 and Board Memo ‘A New Standard of Naval Strength’, April 1937, para. 9, ADM 1/9081.
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Gordon, G.A.H. (1988). Far Eastern Crisis and the End of the Ten Year Rule. In: British Seapower and Procurement between the Wars. Studies in Military and Strategic History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08958-1_10
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