After WWI, the Versailles peace conference was intended to create a lasting peace. Instead, it helped lead to WWII, the Cold War, the current Iraq war, and more. David Andelman says we’re still tied up in the loose ends of Versailles in his new book is A Shattered Peace.
Event: David Andelman will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, January 15 at 6 pm
Overseas Press Club
40 West 45th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
A Shattered Peace is available for purchase at amazon.com
Guests:
David Andelman
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The author echos the typical LEFT WING view of the 1919 Peace Conference that was the views of Nicholson and Keynes that poo poohed the efforts and achievements at Versailles, which later gave Hitler the excuses he needed to tear the treaty up. I suggest a more balanced view can be found in "The Versailles Settlement: Was it Foredoomed to Failure" by Ivo J. Lederer (Heath & Co, 1960). It comprises essays of various attendees and onlookers, like Winston Churchill, who dispute the conventional wisdom of the critics of the time.
What about the population exchange of 1922 between turkey and greece which led to millions of refugees in both countries? How are greece and turkey and other countries suffering today as a result?
What was the relationship between CHaim Weitzmann, chairman of the Zionist World Congress, and Emir Feisal of Mecca, representing the Arabs at the Versailles Conference?
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