Assize of Arms; the Disarmament of Germany : SIGNED : J H Morgan : 1st 1945

Assize of Arms; the Disarmament of Germany and Her Rearmament (1919-1939)

By Brigadier-General J. H. Morgan

With a Preface by Lieut. General Sir G. M. W. MacDonogh.

Volume 1 only (volume II was never published . .originally intended to be two volumes but Morgan only got round to publishing the first)

London, Metheun & Co. Ltd, 1945. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by Brigadier-General J. H. Morgan. Hardback book with dust jacket. 291 pages including the index. Illustrated.

CONDITION
A good copy in a poor jacket which has a large piece missing from the spine and a little more at the top of the spine.  BOards and spine are good. All contents present and pages good throughout. Overall a good signed first edition.

Brigadier-General John Hartman Morgan (20 March 1876 – 8 April 1955) was a British lawyer with expertise in constitutional law. He lectured and wrote on the topic, and he also joined military service during World War I.

Morgan was also employed by the Inter-Allied Military Commission of Control as Deputy Adjutant-General in Berlin from 1919 to 1923. Here he witnessed German attempts to build up their army contrary to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. He published his findings in October 1924 in the Quarterly Review, titled "The Disarmament of Germany and After". In reply to the German Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, Adolf Schlepegrell, who claimed in October 1933 that Germany had fulfilled the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty, Morgan wrote to The Times: "Germany never disarmed, never intended to disarm, and for seven years did everything in her power to obstruct, deceive, and "counter-control" the Commission whose duty it was to disarm her".

Morgan was also a legal adviser to the United Nations War Crimes Commission at Nuremberg from 1947 to 1949.

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