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Bookplate inserted; bookseller stamp for Angus and Robertson, Sydney inside cover. P. 182 earmarked and highlight made in pencil: “Mr. Baldwin knew little of the Continent [Europe], and he has never made any pretense of understanding foreign internal politics. But he knew a great deal about human nature, and in his attitude to external foreign affairs he was guided by two profound convictions. The one was that another world war would destroy all that was left in civilization. [The other was that the existence of an unarmed British Empire, with all its priceless treasures and perilous contacts, was a standing temptation to war].”; and p. 189 (on the retirement of Stanley Baldwin) earmarked.