VII. Grey, Hardinge and the Foreign Office, 1906–1910
- 1 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Historical Journal
- Vol. 10 (3) , 415-439
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00027680
Abstract
Sir Edward Grey entered the Foreign Office at a time when it was being rapidly transformed. A change in the registration system had freed the junior officials from most routine operations and encouraged the senior men to take a more active part in the actual formation of foreign policy. At the same time, a new group of men took over the most important departmental positions and entered the chief European embassies. For the most part, these men were far more conscious of German power than their predecessors and set the tone of British policy during the first years of Grey's Foreign Secretaryship. Charles Hardinge, Louis Mallet, William Tyrrell and Eyre Crowe in London, Francis Bertie, ambassador in Paris, Arthur Nicolson in St Petersburg and, after 1907, Goschen in Berlin were all to play important roles in shaping the new course.Keywords
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