R.M. Douglas is Assistant Professor of History, Colgate University, New York. He was awarded a PhD in History by Brown University in 1996. He is the author of Feminist Freikorps: The British Voluntary Women Police, 1914-1940 (1999) and Imperialism on Trial: International Oversight of Colonial Rule in Comparative Perspective (forthcoming)

• Introduction1. 'Half a League Onward': The Labour Critique of the Nation-State, 1900-392. Dictatorship of the Secretariat: Transport House and the Rise of 'Muscular' Internationalism3. Internationalism or Anti-Nationalism?: Backbench and Beckroom Visions of World Order, 1939-454. Trustees for Humanity: Ministerial Planning for International Government, 1940-455. Utopia Deferred: The Attlee Adminitration and the United Nations, 1945-516. An Offer They Couldn't Refuse: Labour Internationalism and Colonial Trusteeship7. Socialism in One Country: The Failure of Labour Europeanism Conclusion

R.M. Douglas is Assistant Professor of History, Colgate University, New York. He was awarded a PhD in History by Brown University in 1996. He is the author of Feminist Freikorps: The British Voluntary Women Police, 1914-1940 (1999) and Imperialism on Trial: International Oversight of Colonial Rule in Comparative Perspective (forthcoming)

• Introduction1. 'Half a League Onward': The Labour Critique of the Nation-State, 1900-392. Dictatorship of the Secretariat: Transport House and the Rise of 'Muscular' Internationalism3. Internationalism or Anti-Nationalism?: Backbench and Beckroom Visions of World Order, 1939-454. Trustees for Humanity: Ministerial Planning for International Government, 1940-455. Utopia Deferred: The Attlee Adminitration and the United Nations, 1945-516. An Offer They Couldn't Refuse: Labour Internationalism and Colonial Trusteeship7. Socialism in One Country: The Failure of Labour Europeanism Conclusion