Category: History - Modern (1750+)
It is the method of modern statesmen to talk as much folly as the public demand and to practise no more of it than is compatible with what they have said, trusting that such folly in action as must wait on folly in word will soon disclose itself as such, and furnish an opportu...
The deeper and the fouler the bogs into which Mr. Lloyd George leads us, the more credit is his for getting us out. He leads us in to satisfy our desires; he leads us out to sav...
6. CHAPTER IIThe Treaty of Versailles was ratified on January 10, 1920, and except in the plebiscite areas its territorial provisions came into force on that date. The Slesvig plebiscite (Fe...
7. CHAPTER IIIThe settlement of Reparations communicated to Germany by the Allied Powers on May 5, 1921, and accepted a few days later, constitutes the definitive scheme under the Treaty acco...
8. CHAPTER IVThe Treaty of Versailles specified the classes of damage in respect of which Germany was to pay Reparation. It made no attempt to assess the amount of this damage. This duty was...
9. CHAPTER V“The application of morals to international politics is more a thing to be desired than a thing which has been in operation. Also, when I am made a participant in crime along wi...
10. CHAPTER VIIt is fashionable at the present time to urge a reduction of the Allies’ claims on Germany and of America’s claims on the Allies, on the ground that, as such payments can only b...
5. CHAPTER IIt is the method of modern statesmen to talk as much folly as the public demand and to practise no more of it than is compatible with what they have said, trusting that such fol...
4. CHAPTER VII1. CHAPTER II3. CHAPTER IV2. CHAPTER III