suite But British statesmen were convinced that with the Prussian element vanquished they could draw a line under recent history and assume that another war with Germany was out of the question. As a result, even before the Peace Conference began they brushed aside Marshal Foch's appeals to bear in mind the potential threat that Germany posed to the European balance of power and the crucially important role of Eastern Europe within the overall balance. Instead, they took out their frustration on France for constantly raising these awkward questions. 48 Thereafter Franco-British relations went from bad to worse. At the Peace Conference Clemenceau sought practical guarantees against a renewal of German aggression. Lloyd George resisted him at every turn. Clemenceau, a liberal Anglophone who as a young man had translated J. Burberry pas cher 160;S.160;Mill's Life of Auguste Comte and the first volume of Logic, was dismayed, but sought to reason with the British. To no avail. The British delegation flatly rejected all warnings about Germany from either him or Foch.[ 67][ 67] Robert Boyce, The Great Interwar Crisis…, op. 160;cit. ,. survetement gucci soldes ..suite 49 On the weekend of 21-23160;March, Lloyd George, frustrated by French policy, gathered his advisers for two days of reflection at Fontainebleau. The resulting memorandum, circulated in Lloyd George's name to the French and Americans, has won praise from generations of historians as an exemplary statement of enlightened internationalism.[ 68][ 68] Antony Lentin, an authority on the peace settlement, describes... Doudoune moncler soldes suite No doubt this was just how Lloyd George and his colleagues regarded it. Yet his reference to Alsace-Lorraine, used to illustrate the consequences of an oppressive peace settlement, reveals a different feature of British attitudes. According to the memorandum, Prussia-Germany's seizure of these French provinces in160;1870 should have made Germany stronger and France weaker, but in fact it had done just the opposite because it led France to create alliances and eventually force the return of the lost provinces. 50 France itself has demonstrated that those who say you can make Germany so feeble that she will never be able to hit back are utterly wrong. Year by year France became numerically weaker in comparison with her victorious neighbour, but in reality she became ever more powerful. She kept watch on Europe; she made alliance with those whom Germany had wronged or menaced; she never ceased to warn the world of its danger and ultimately she was able to secure the overthrow of the far mightier power which had trampled so brutally upon her. You may strip Germany of her colonies, reduce her armaments armies to a mere police force and her navy to that of a fifth rate power; all the same in the end if she feels that she has been unjustly treated in the peace of160;1919 she will find means of exacting retribution from her conquerors.
160;S.160;Mill's Life of Auguste Comte and the first volume of Logic, was dismayed, but sought to reason with the British. To no avail. The British delegation flatly rejected all warnings about Germany from either him or Foch.[ 67][ 67] Robert Boyce, The Great Interwar Crisis…, op. 160;cit. ,. survetement gucci soldes ..suite 49 On the weekend of 21-23160;March, Lloyd George, frustrated by French policy, gathered his advisers for two days of reflection at Fontainebleau. The resulting memorandum, circulated in Lloyd George's name to the French and Americans, has won praise from generations of historians as an exemplary statement of enlightened internationalism.[ 68][ 68] Antony Lentin, an authority on the peace settlement, describes... Doudoune moncler soldes
suite No doubt this was just how Lloyd George and his colleagues regarded it. Yet his reference to Alsace-Lorraine, used to illustrate the consequences of an oppressive peace settlement, reveals a different feature of British attitudes. According to the memorandum, Prussia-Germany's seizure of these French provinces in160;1870 should have made Germany stronger and France weaker, but in fact it had done just the opposite because it led France to create alliances and eventually force the return of the lost provinces. 50 France itself has demonstrated that those who say you can make Germany so feeble that she will never be able to hit back are utterly wrong. Year by year France became numerically weaker in comparison with her victorious neighbour, but in reality she became ever more powerful. She kept watch on Europe; she made alliance with those whom Germany had wronged or menaced; she never ceased to warn the world of its danger and ultimately she was able to secure the overthrow of the far mightier power which had trampled so brutally upon her. You may strip Germany of her colonies, reduce her armaments armies to a mere police force and her navy to that of a fifth rate power; all the same in the end if she feels that she has been unjustly treated in the peace of160;1919 she will find means of exacting retribution from her conquerors.
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