Stanley Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva Protocol

Baldwin was a British Conservative politician, who served as Prime Minister from 1923 and onward. He took his studies at Harrow and Trinity College. This is where he would work for a short time for his father, Chairman of the Great Western Railway. From 1908 and onward, he would serve as a member of the House of Commons. While running as Prime Minister, he served under George V, Edward VIII and George VI, and was a major help during the General Strike of 1926.

Here is only one thing which I feel is worth giving one's whole strength to, and that is the binding together of all classes of our people in an effort to make life in this country better in every sense of the word. That is the main end and object of my life in politics. -Baldwin

Baldwin has now refuses to ratify Geneva agreement. The Geneva Protocol ensures that the use of chemical and biological weapons in war is prohibited. The Protocol was written and signed in a conference that was held in Geneva, Switzerland from May 4 to June 17 of 1925.

A possible reason that Baldwin refused to ratify the Protocol is that this would weaken his position in a chemical arms race with Russia, Austria-Hungary, the United States, Italy France and Germany.