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Eugen Millington-Drake - A River Plate 80 Video
Admiral Graf SpeeBattle Of The River PlateBritish Foreign OfficeEugen Millington DrakeHenry HarwoodNaval Diplomacy
Study Eugen Millington-Drake - A River Plate 80 Video, a Dr. Alex Clarke video from 27 Nov 2019, with 5 time notes. Topics include Admiral Graf Spee, Battle Of The River Plate, British Foreign Office.
Time notes
- 0:04Millington-Drake's diplomatic network in UruguayChapter
Eugen Millington-Drake's years in Uruguay gave Henry Harwood useful local introductions and linked Foreign Office relationships to Royal Navy activity in the River Plate region.
- 2:05Harwood and Millington-Drake discuss the Graf Spee crisisNotable Point
Henry Harwood's naval command and Eugen Millington-Drake's diplomatic access come together in a meeting during the Admiral Graf Spee crisis.
- 2:33Soft diplomacy before the Battle of the River PlateChapter
Millington-Drake's long South American service built the regional knowledge and personal connections that Britain could draw on when the River Plate crisis began.
- 4:20Why British naval influence depended on the Foreign OfficeNotable Point
Britain's naval reach in the 1930s rested on a funded diplomatic service, a lesson applied here to modern claims about Global Britain.
- 5:24Diplomatic influence over Pan-American neutralityNotable Point
Britain used relationships across American governments to influence the Panama Declaration and Pan-American neutrality policy, even though support for Britain was not universal.