Engraving, left: Restrained Enthusiasm. Mr MacDonald, Mr Hoover} "Loud cheers for disarmament! Now then, all together - Hip! Hip!..." M Briand. "Tres bien." Signor Mussolini. "Bravo!" [Britain and USA try to sell disarmament at the London Naval Conference as they stand in front of 'Come to London and Disarm', while Mussolini looks unimpressed and Briand looks suspiciously at him]
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The London Naval Conference (1908–09) was a continuation of the debates of the 2nd Hague Conference, with the United Kingdom hoping for the formation of an International Prize Court. Ten nations sent representatives, the main naval powers of Europe and the United States and Japan. The conference met from December 4, 1908 to February 26, 1909. The agreements were issued as the Declaration of London, containing seventy-one articles it restated much existing international maritime law.
The signatories' governments did not all ratify the Declaration and it never went into effect. During the First World War the neutral United States under President Wilson pushed for the major antagonists to respect the treaty, hoping that the good protection in the Declaration for neutral vessels would be enforced.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: No Man's Land: Fiction from a World at War, by Pete Ayrton (1 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 1, Block B: No Man's Land: Fiction from a World at War, by Pete Ayrton (2 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 1, Block C: No Man's Land: Fiction from a World at War, by Pete Ayrton (3 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 1, Block D: No Man's Land: Fiction from a World at War, by Pete Ayrton (4 of 4)
Hour Two
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 2, Block A: Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, by Richard Rhodes  (1 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 2, Block B: Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, by Richard Rhodes  (2 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 2, Block C: Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, by Richard Rhodes  (3 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 2, Block D: Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, by Richard Rhodes  (4 of 4)
Hour Three
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 3, Block A: At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference in 1930, by John H. Maurer and Christopher Bell (1 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 3, Block B: At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference in 1930, by John H. Maurer and Christopher Bell (2 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 3, Block C: At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference in 1930, by John H. Maurer and Christopher Bell (3 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 3, Block D: At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference in 1930, by John H. Maurer and Christopher Bell (4 of 4)
Hour Four
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 4, Block A: Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941, by Joseph Maiolo (1 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 4, Block B: Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941, by Joseph Maiolo (2 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 4, Block C: Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941, by Joseph Maiolo (3 of 4)
Saturday 6 June 2015  / Hour 4, Block D: Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941, by Joseph Maiolo (4 of 4)
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