1. Useful are P. Towle, ‘British Security and Disarmament Policy in Europe in the 1920s’; Z. Steiner, ‘The League of Nations and the Quest for Security’; and M. Vaïsse, ‘Security and Disarmament: Problems in the Development of the Disarmament Debates, 1919–1934’, all in R. Ahmann, A. M. Birke and M. Howard (eds), The Quest for Stability: Problems of West European Security, 1918–1957 (London: German Historical Institute, and Oxford University Press, 1993).
2. The 1927 naval conference produced only stalemate and Anglo-American antagonism, with France and Italy refusing even to attend. The abortive 1928 ‘arms compromise’ was a secret deal in which Britain dropped its insistence on limiting trained reserves and France agreed to back Britain’s position on limiting cruisers; this apparently cynical manoeuvring also produced American anger. D. Carlton, ‘Great Britain and the Coolidge Naval Conference of 1927’, Political Science Quarterly, 83 (1968); R. Fanning, ‘The Coolidge Conference of 1927: Disarmament in Disarray’, in B. J. C. McKercher (ed.), Arms Limitation and Disarmament: Restraints on War, 1899–1939 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992); D. Carlton, ‘The Anglo-French Compromise on Arms Limitation, 1928’, Journal of British Studies, 8 (1969);
3. B.J.C. McKercher, The Second Baldwin Government and the United States, 1924–1929: Attitudes and Diplomacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 55–76 and 140–70.
4. series II–X, League of Nations Publications (LNP) series ‘IX.Disarmament’;League of Nations,1926
5. J. Wheeler-Bennett, Disarmament and Security since Locarno, 1925–1931 (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1932), pp. 43–141 and 281–306; and the 1926–30 volumes of A. Toynbee’s annual Survey of International Affairs (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1928–31).