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Various. Essays in Liberalism
Essays in Liberalism
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PREFACE
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE REHABILITATION OF EUROPE
By the Rt. Hon. Lord Robert Cecil
K.C., M.P., Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1918. Minister of Blockade, 1916–1918. Representative of Union of South Africa at Assembly of League of Nations
The Two Views of the League
The Negative and the Positive
The Spirit of the League
The Mistake of Versailles
Economic Peace
The Two Causes of Unrest
THE BALANCE OF POWER
By Professor A.F. Pollard
Hon. Litt.D.; Fellow of All Souls’ College, Oxford; F.B.A.; Professor of English History in the University of London; Chairman of the Institute of Historical Research
Balance or League?
The Theory of Balance
The Change since Castlereagh
Mischievous Hallucination
Where the Line is Drawn
Basis of Security
The Alternative
INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT
By Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, K.C.M.G., C.B
Director of Military Operations—Imperial General Staff, 1915–16
A Group of New Armies
The League’s Commission
Washington
A General Defensive Pact
The Appeal to Public Opinion
REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBT
By John Maynard Keynes
M.A., C.B.; Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; Editor of Economic Journal since 1912; principal representative of the Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference, and Deputy for the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council, Jan.-June, 1919
The Breakdown of Germany
The Illusion of a Loan
A Policy for the Liberal Party
THE OUTLOOK FOR NATIONAL FINANCE
By Sir Josiah Stamp, K.B.E., D.Sc
Assistant Secretary Board of Inland Revenue, 1916–19. Member of Royal Commission on Income Tax, 1919
The Two Parts of a Budget
A Century of the National Debt
The Capital Levy
Difficulties of Valuation
A Desperate Remedy
FREE TRADE
By Rt. Hon. J.M. Robertson
P.C.; President of National Liberal Federation since 1920; M.P. (L.), Tyneside Division, Northumberland, 1906–18; Parliamentary Secretary to Board of Trade, 1911–15
The “New Circumstances” Cry
Tariffs and Wages
Members One of Another
The Dyestuffs Act
The Paris Resolutions
Science and Experience
INDIA
By Sir Hamilton Grant
K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E.; Chief Commissioner, North-West Frontier Province, India; Deputy Commissioner of various Frontier districts; Secretary to Frontier Administration; Foreign Secretary, 1914–19; negotiated Peace Treaty with Afghanistan, 1919
Frontier Raids
Frontier Policy
Afghanistan
Internal Unrest
The Rise of Ghandi
The Present Situation
Our Duty To India
EGYPT
By J.A. Spender
Editor of the Westminster Gazette, 1896 to 1922; Member of the Special Mission to Egypt, 1919–1920
After-War Mistakes
The Hope of the Future
THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT
By Ramsay Muir
Professor of Modern History in the University of Manchester, 1913 to 1921
The Growth of the Civil Service
A Check upon Bureaucracy
The Cabinet
Modern Changes in the Cabinet
The House of Commons
Representation of “Interests”
Devolution
THE STATE AND INDUSTRY
By W.T. Layton
M.A., C.H., C.B.E.; Editor of the Economist, 1922; formerly Member of Munitions Council, and Director of Economic and Financial Section of the League of Nations; Director of Welwyn Garden City; Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1910
The Liberal Bias
Retrospect and Prospect
State Ownership: For and Against
Trusts and Monopolies
Distribution
The Case for Profit-Sharing
Industrial Publicity
A National Industrial Council
THE REGULATION OF WAGES
By Professor L.T. Hobhouse
Professor of Sociology, London University
The Establishment of Trade Boards
Women’s Wages
The Question of a Single Minimum
Trade Boards Holding the Field
UNEMPLOYMENT
By H.D. Henderson
M.A.; Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge; Lecturer in Economics; Secretary to the Cotton Control Board from 1917–1919
The Causes of Trade Depressions
The Scale of Relief
A Model Scheme from Lancashire
The Moral Obligation of Industries
The Present Machinery of Relief
THE PROBLEM OF THE MINES
By Arnold D. McNair
M.A., LL.M., C.B.E.; Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Secretary of Coal Conservation Committee, 1916–1918; Secretary of Advisory Board of Coal Controller, 1917–1919; Secretary of Coal Industry Commission, 1919 (Sankey Commission)
The Liberalisation of Industry
The Question of Royalties
A National Mining Board
The Mystery as to Profits
The Lessees of the Future
THE LAND QUESTION
By A.S. Comyns Carr
Member of Acquisition of Land Committee, 1918
Housing
Land for Public Purposes
Rating Relief for Improvements
The Lesson of the Slums
A Rate and a Tax upon Site Values
AGRICULTURAL QUESTIONS
By Rt. Hon. F.D. Acland
P.C.; M.P. (L.) North-West Cornwall; Financial Secretary, War Office, 1908–10; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1911–15; Financial Secretary to Treasury, Feb.-June, 1915; Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, 1915–16; a Forestry Commissioner. Chairman of the Agricultural Organisation Society
The Destruction of a Policy
Employment and Wages
Access to the Land
Independence
Co-operation
