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The Inside Story of the Peace Conference By: Emile Joseph Dillon (1855-1933) |
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The Peace Conference
by Dr. E.J. Dillon HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON THE INSIDE STORY OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE Copyright 1920, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published February, 1920 To
C.W. BARRON in memory of interesting conversations on historic occasions These pages are inscribed.
CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE FOREWORD ix I. THE CITY OF THE CONFERENCE 1 II. SIGNS OF THE TIMES 45 III. THE DELEGATES 58 IV. CENSORSHIP AND SECRECY 117 V. AIMS AND METHODS 136 VI. THE LESSER STATES 184 VII. POLAND'S OUTLOOK IN THE FUTURE 264 VIII. ITALY 272 IX. JAPAN 322 X. ATTITUDE TOWARD RUSSIA 344 XI. BOLSHEVISM 376 XII. HOW BOLSHEVISM WAS FOSTERED 399 XIII. SIDELIGHTS ON THE TREATY 407 XIV. THE TREATY WITH GERMANY 455 XV. THE TREATY WITH BULGARIA 464 XVI. THE COVENANT AND MINORITIES 469
FOREWORD It is almost superfluous to say that this book does not claim to be a
history, however summary, of the Peace Conference, seeing that such a
work was made sheer impossible now and forever by the chief delegates
themselves when they decided to dispense with records of their
conversations and debates. It is only a sketch a sketch of the problems
which the war created or rendered pressing of the conditions under
which they cropped up; of the simplicist ways in which they were
conceived by the distinguished politicians who volunteered to solve
them; of the delegates' natural limitations and electioneering
commitments and of the secret influences by which they were swayed; of
the peoples' needs and expectations; of the unwonted procedure adopted
by the Conference and of the fateful consequences of its decisions to
the world. In dealing with all those matters I aimed at impartiality, which is an
unattainable ideal, but I trust that sincerity and detachment have
brought me reasonably close to it. Having no pet theories of my own to
champion, my principal standard of judgment is derived from the law of
causality and the rules of historical criticism. The fatal tactical mistake chargeable to the Conference lay in its
making the charter of the League of Nations and the treaty of peace with
the Central Powers interdependent. For the maxims that underlie the
former are irreconcilable with those that should determine the latter,
and the efforts to combine them must, among other untoward results,
create a sharp opposition between the vital interests of the people of
the United States and the apparent or transient interests of their
associates. The outcome of this unnatural union will be to damage the
cause of stable peace which it was devised to further. But the surest touchstone by which to test the capacity and the
achievements of the world legislators is their attitude toward Russia in
the political domain and toward the labor problem in the economic
sphere. And in neither case does their action or inaction appear to have
been the outcome of statesman like ideas, or, indeed, of any higher
consideration than that of evading the central issue and transmitting
the problem to the League of Nations. The results are manifest to all. The continuity of human progress depends at bottom upon labor, and it is
becoming more and more doubtful whether the civilized races of mankind
can be reckoned on to supply it for long on conditions akin to those
which have in various forms prevailed ever since the institutions of
ancient times and which alone render the present social structure
viable. If this forecast should prove correct, the only alternative to a
break disastrous in the continuity of civilization is the frank
recognition of the principle that certain inferior races are destined to
serve the cause of mankind in those capacities for which alone they are
qualified and to readjust social institutions to this axiom... Continue reading book >>
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