Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230305110
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement by : Anonymous
Download or read book Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement written by Anonymous and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XLIX The German Responses And Allied Replies--CritiCisms By General Smuts--Attempts At ReVision--The Signing In The Hall Of Mirrors THE period of the German responses is in many ways the most interesting and significant of the Peace Conference. It brought out more clearly and definitely than ever before the real problems of peace, especially in its more difficult and complicated economic aspects; and it invoked a response from the public opinion of the world not possible before because neither the terms of the Treaty, nor the contentions of the Germans was known. It was a period, in proportion to the entire length of the Peace Conference somewhat extended, lasting from May 7, when the "book," as Clemenceau called it, was laid down before the Germans at the Trianon Palace, and June 28, when it was signed in the Hall of Mirrors. During this period the Germans, housed in the hotel at Versailles, were furiously busy with their responses, couriers were speeding back and forth with red-sealed documents, and every effort was being made to finish the Treaty and get to the signing. As it was said in the last chapter there were three tests to be applied to the Treaty: Was it just? Would the Germans accept it? Could it be practically carried out? In one of the very first of the German notes, May 10, the attack is opened upon all three of these points. It asserts I that a first perusal of the Treaty reveals that "on essential points the basis of the Peace of Right, agreed upon between the belligerents, has been abandoned." It also asserts that some of the demands are such as "no nation could endure" and that "many of them could not possibly be carried out." But what effect the Germans hoped to obtain by this wholesale preliminary...