The Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Peace

The essays in this volume, written by leading historians and a former British foreign secretary, survey the strategy, politics and personalities of British peacemaking in 1919. Many of the intractable problems faced by negotiators are studied in this volume. Neglected issues, including nascent British commercial interests in Central Europe and attitudes towards Russia are covered, along with important reassessments of the viability of the Versailles treaty, reparations, appeasement, and the long-term effects of the settlement. This collection is a compelling and resonant addition to revisionist studies of the "Peace to End Peace" and essential reading for those interested in international history.

Michael Dockrill is Professor of Diplomatic History at King's College, London.

John Fisher is Reader Adviser at the Public Record Office, Kew.

Notes on the Contributors

vii

Preface

xi

Rt Hon. Lord Hurd

Acknowledgements

xiii

Introduction

1

(6)

Michael Dockrill

John Fisher

The Rise and Fall of Morality in Peace Making

7

(6)

Lord Hurd

The Treaty of Versailles Revisited

13

(22)

Zara Steiner

Holding up the Flag of Britain...with Sustained Vigour and Brilliance or `Sowing the seeds of European Disaster? Lloyd George and Balfour at the Paris Peace Conference

35

(16)

Alan Sharp

`Appeasement' at the Paris Peace Conference

51

(16)

Antony Lentin

`That elusive entity British policy in Russia': the Impact of Russia on British Policy at the Paris Peace Conference

67

(36)

Keith Neilson

The Treaty of Versailles, `Never Again' and Appeasement

103

(12)

Keith Robbins

Missions impossible: General Smuts, Sir George Clerk and British Diplomacy in Central Europe in 1919

115

(26)

Miklos Lojko

The Eastern Question: the Last Phase

141

(16)

Erick Goldstein

New Diplomacy and Old: a Reassessment of British Conceptions of a League of Nations, 1918--20

157

(18)

Ruth Henig

Before Gooch and Temperley: the Contributions of Austen Chamberlain and J. W. Headlam-Morley towards `instructing the mass of the public', 1912--26

175

(16)

Keith Wilson

Index

191

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The Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Peace Without Victory?

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