The Anatomy of the Cold War: Montague Burton Lecture on International Relations delivered in The Queen's University of Belfast on April 21, 1955
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom: Marjory Boyd, M.A., Printer to The Queen's University of Belfast, 1955. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 27, [1] p. Occasioonal footnotes. Very scarce item. Sir Montague BUrton died shortly after this lecture was founded. Accordingly this pamphlet documents the only lecture under his foundatin given in Belfast. In publishing this lecture the University wished to pay tribute to his memory. From Wikipedia: "Sir Montague Maurice Burton (15 August 1885, Lithuania 21 September 1952, Leeds) founded Burton, one of Great Britain's largest chains of clothes shops. From Wikipedia: "Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo (23 July 1886, La Coruña, Spain-14 December 1978, Locarno, Switzerland) was a Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist. He had two daughters. He graduated with a degree in engineering in Paris, France before gaining a Masters of Arts at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He then went to work as an engineer for the Northern Spanish Railway Company but abandoned this work to return to London and become a journalist, writing in English, for The Times. At this time he began publishing his first essays. In 1921 he became a press member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations and became chief of the Disarmament Section in 1922. In 1928, he became Professor of Spanish at Oxford University for three years, during which time he wrote a book on nation psychology called Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards. In 1931 he was appointed ambassador to the United States of America and a permanent delegate to the League of Nations, a post he kept for 5 years. Between 1932 and 1934 he was Ambassador to France. In 1933 he was elected to the National Congress, serving as both Minister for Education and Minister for Justice. In July 1936, as a classic liberal he went into exile in England to escape the eruption of the Spanish civil war. From there he became a vocal opponent of, and organised resistance to, the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. In 1947, he was one of the principal authors of the Oxford Manifesto on liberalism. He was one of the co-founders, in 1949, of the College of Europe. In his writing career he wrote books about Don Quixote, Christopher Columbus and the history of Latin America. He militated in favour of a united and integrated Europe. He wrote in French and German as well as Spanish and Galician (his mother tongue) and English. In 1973 he won the Karlspreis for contributions to the European idea and European peace. In 1976, he returned to Spain after the death of dictator Francisco Franco. The Madariaga European Foundation has been named after him, promoting his vision of a united Europe making for a more peaceful world. The 1979 1980 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour." The author contended that: The communist regime is frail. No effort, no attempt is made to drive wedges into the splits. The Berlin rising, the Vorkuta strike, the nationalist tensions inside the Soviet Union, ...are so many assets for the West which the West allows to lie fallow. The author advocated "A programme of active, progressive liveration should be set up and put into operation forthwith." Born a Lithuanian Jew (Moshe Osinsky) in Kaunas province, he came alone to England in 1900. In 1901, he was staying in Cheetham, Manchester. He started as a peddler, then set up as a general outfitter in Chesterfield in 1903 selling readymade suits bought from a wholesaler. Following his marriage to Sophie Marks in 1909 the name of the company was changed from M. Burton to Burton & Burton. They had one daughter (1910) then a son (1914). On the birth of twin boys in (1917) he gave his name as Montague Maurice Burton. However, he had not changed his name legally, which caused problems during the First World War. By 1913 he had five men's tailor shops with headquarters in Sheffield and manufacturing in Leeds. He had four hundred shops, and factories and mills, by 1929, when the company went public. His firm made a quarter of the British military uniforms during World War II and a third of demobilisation clothing. He was knighted in 1931 for "services to industrial relations" Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Pencil resrue residue on t-p.
Keywords: Cold War, Montague Burton, Communism, East-West Relations, East-West Trade, Containment, Vorkuta, Nationalism
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