William Tyler
1918-1922: A Faulty Peace and Broken Promises
Summary
1918 saw the end of ‘the war to end all wars’, and a promise from Prime Minister Lloyd George to create a country ‘fit for heroes to live in’. Neither was to come about. Despite an attempt to return to the era of pre-war reforms, by the end of 1922 Lloyd George was out of office and the Liberals reduced to a small caucus. The month of the collapse of Lloyd George’s government also saw the first of the inter war hunger marches.
William Tyler
William Tyler has spent his entire professional life in adult education, beginning at Kingsgate College in 1969. He has lectured widely for many public bodies, including the University of Cambridge and the WEA, in addition to speaking to many clubs and societies. In 2009, William was awarded the MBE for services to adult education, and he has previously been a scholar in residence at the London Jewish Cultural Centre.
Because we had no mechanism to try him, basically, and because he was no threat, and he himself was a cog in the wheel, and by 1918 was a very small cog. We only get the concept of international courts once we create the inquiry into the horrors of Nazism, after World War II. That is different. That is different, because of the horrors of Nazism, and not simply that Germany took us to war. It is the Holocaust, and all the other horrors associated with Nazism that made it essential that people were put on trial. And since then we’ve developed international law to deal with those questions.