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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. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII PARIS IN 1919. THE MAKING OF PEACE The time has not yet come when a satisfactory history of the Peace Conference can be written. It is too vast and complicated a subject, and besides, the work it undertook is by no means finished, and as a body it still exists. And when that history is written, it will fill a shelf with fat volumes, whose very indexing will constitute a formidable work. On the mind of the public the Conference produced a bad impression. I. suppose expectation had run too high; we thought that the Armistice meant the defeat of the Germans, that the defeat of the Germans meant a Conference, and that the Conference would make peace in about a fortnight, and all would immediately be as it was in 1914, save the aching vacancies at every hearth-side. Those must remain, but all the other shadows would flee away. We prepared to welcome the Conference with open arms. Had we kept them open all the time we should have had to have an Aaron each to support them; for indeed it was long a-coming, and longer still a-going. If I have to record that Paris went through months of impatience and discontent, at any rate one must remember that she had excuses. She had passed through the war with a noble dignity which even her profiteers could not defile; but on the morrow of the Armistice there fell upon her that natural reaction which attacks us all after a long spell of endurance and a sudden overwhelming joy. She wanted rest and ease; and neither was possible. The Conference was heralded by enormous crowds of secretaries and under-secretaries and private secretaries, who filled the hotels, snapped up every furnished flat, hired every car, and, worst of all, put up the price of living. The natural traffic of the city had...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781230429847
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230429840
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 186 gr


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