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Portrait of a Decision: The Council of Four and the Treaty of Versailles book cover

1st Edition

Portrait of a Decision The Council of Four and the Treaty of Versailles

By Howard Elcock Copyright 1972
402 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1972, Portrait of a Decision drawing on materials like- Cabinet minutes, the Lloyd George and Lothian papers, Foreign Office correspondence- provides the first comprehensive reassessment of the negotiations in Paris since those who were present wrote their memoirs. The making of the Treaty of Versailles was a watershed between the diplomatic worlds of the nineteenth and... Read more

Acknowledgements Preface 1. Prelude, 1915- 1918 2. The Armistice: September- November 1918 3. Preparations for the Conference: Uncertainties and Disagreements, November- December 1918 4. The Conference Opens: First Problems, January 1919 5. Detailed Work: February 1919 6. The Guilt of Germany: Reparations, Disarmament and War Guilt, February 1919 7. The Tensions Increase: March 1919 8. Fontainebleau and After: Territorial Questions, March- April 1919 9. War Guilt, Reparations and Other Issues, March April 1919 10. Italy's Month: April 1919 11. The Peace Congress: May 1919 12. The Last Crisis: June 1919 13. Portrait of a Decision Bibliographical References Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography Index

Biography

Howard Elcock enjoyed a long and distinguished academic career. He taught at the university of hull between 1966 and 1981 and then Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) where he became professor emeritus in 1997.

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