"The Right Lessons from Versailles 100 Years Later" Topic
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Tango01 | 28 Jun 2019 3:49 p.m. PST |
"One hundred years today, in the early afternoon of Saturday, June 28, 1919, the Great War, as it was then called – later known as the First World War – came to a ceremonious end in the historic Hall of Mirrors at Versailles Palace, outside of Paris. Precisely five years to the day beyond the assassination of the Austrian archduke in Sarajevo that had lit the match to the global disaster, and before more than 1000 onlookers, two seniors officials in the German Foreign Ministry, Johannes Bell and Hermann Müller, signed first, followed by the victorious Americans, British, French, Italians, and Japanese, in that order. Herren Müller and Bell, described later by Sir Harold Nicolson, a member of the British delegation to the Versailles conference, as looking like death, left immediately afterward for Germany. But to the victors went the spoils: wild demonstrations commenced in Paris and London as soon as the Treaty was signed…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Tom Molon | 28 Jun 2019 5:20 p.m. PST |
Thought provoking article. Thanks, Armand |
Tango01 | 29 Jun 2019 11:46 a.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement Armand
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