Lloyd George, Curzon and the control of British foreign policy 1919-22

This article revises the accepted narrative about British foreign policy in the aftermath of the First World War, which portrays the Foreign Secretory and Foreign Office as subservient to a dynamic and interventionist Prima M inister in the formulation of foreign policy. it argues that the relationsh ip between Prime Minister and Foreign Secretory, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, was for more complex than that suggested by the historical consensus, shape d in port, by David Lloyd George's political opponents and Curzon's enemies . Comparisons ore drown between Curzon's influence over policy towards spec ific geographical areas, and between Curzon's experiences under Lloyd Georg e and his eventual successors as Prime Minister. Andrew Donor Low and Stanl ey Baldwin.