IV. The Last Years of the Old Foreign Office, 1898–1905
- 1 March 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Historical Journal
- Vol. 6 (1) , 59-90
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00000911
Abstract
Sir Edward Grey presided over the Foreign Office, Lord Salisbury ruled it. While Salisbury's Foreign Office can still be discussed in Palmerstonian terms, Grey's resembled its modern—day counterpart. After 1906, men who had been clerks began acting as true advisers. This change was in part due to the increasing volume of business and to the personalities of the men involved, but it also resulted from a belated administrative revolution which brought the Foreign Office into line with the other great departments of state. The years under Lord Lansdowne were the transitional ones both in terms of policy and of Foreign Office organization.Keywords
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