The Paris Peace Conference, 1919: Peace without Victory?

Table of contents

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• Title Page i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Notes on the Contributors vii
• Preface xi
• 1 - The Rise and Fall of Morality in Peace Making 7
• 2 - The Treaty of Versailles Revisited 13
• 3 - 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
• 4 - ‘Appeasement’ at the Paris Peace Conference 51
• 5 - ‘That Elusive Entity British Policy in Russia’: the Impact of Russia on British Policy at the Paris Peace Conference 67
• 6 - The Treaty of Versailles, ‘Never Again’ and Appeasement 103
• 7 - Missions Impossible: General Smuts, Sir George Clerk and British Diplomacy in Central Europe in 1919 115
• 8 - The Eastern Question: the Last Phase 141
• 9 - New Diplomacy and Old: a Reassessment of British Conceptions of a League of Nations, 1918–20 157
• 10 - Before Gooch and Temperley: the Contributions of Austen Chamberlain and J.W. Headlam-Morley Towards ‘Instructing the Mass of the Public’, 1912–26 175
• Index 191