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Versailles #57: Danzig and the Rhine

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Here we take stock of the situation by the last week of April 1919 by focusing our microscope on two apparently unrelated, but hugely important issues – specifically the future of...

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Versailles #56: OTD 24th April 1919 - The Italians Walk Out

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On 24th April 1919, Italy left the Paris Peace Conference. This stunning development was a long time coming, and was a natural result of the behaviour of the big three. Notwithstand...

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Versailles #55: Italian Stallions

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We finally turn our attention to Italy in this episode history friends, where the relationship of Vittorio Orlando with his peers in the big five comes under our microscope. What we...

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Delegation Game #12: The Tiger Still Roars!

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Episode 12 of the game sees our focus hone in on one eventful day, 19th April 1919, where three separate meetings were held, and where dreams were debated and dashed. The Japanese p...

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1956 Episode 2.14: Attacked At Home

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Episode 2.14: Attacked At Home takes us to the scenes facing Anthony Eden in Britain in the final days of October. Having orchestrated an Israeli-Egyptian war, the plan now was to i...

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1956 Episode 2.13: When A Plan Comes Together

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Episode 2.13: When A Plan Comes Together examines the final moments of peace between 25-29 October, as the different governments involved in the conspiracy to attack Egypt and make ...

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Tim Bouverie: Appeasing Hitler

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Delegation Game #11: Victory in Defeat

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The situation in our alternative universe continues to heat up, but some might say, for the better. The President Marshall of France, Ferdinand Foch, having survived the recent vote...

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Versailles #54: OTD 11th April 1919 - Racial Equality Denied

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The Japanese were utterly determined to pass the racial equality proposal, which actually consisted of a few sentences that would be inserted into the preamble of the League of Nati...

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Versailles #53: Asian Persuasions

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It's high time we turned our attention to a neglected theatre of this story. No, not Africa...No, not the Middle East...Yes, that's right - Asian! Well, more specifically, just Japa...

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Delegation Game #10: Rebuilding Peace

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After a traumatic event which rocked France, the world and the Peace Conference to its core, how can the delegates involved possibly refocus their attentions to the task at hand - t...

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Versailles #52: OTD 5th April 1919 - Wilson Has Had Enough!

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In the first week of April, 1919, American President Woodrow Wilson had reached the end of his tether. He was eternally sick of Georges Clemenceau lording the agonies of France over...

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Delegation Game #9: Paris Is Revolting!

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Whoa, Nelly, have we got a story for you! In the aftermath of failed efforts to achieve satisfaction with reparations and with the intervention into Russia, one could be left feelin...

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Versailles #51: The PM Surprises Us All!

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We return to the question of reparations with some startling revelations. If you thought the French were the greedy, grasping and bitter sponsors of a massive reparations bill, then...

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Versailles #50: Deliberations on Reparations

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At long last, we turn our attention to the controversial issue of reparations. Perhaps no issue at the Paris Peace Conference, and no single tenet of the Treaty of Versailles has be...

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Delegation Game #8: Haunting Paris

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After a week of conspiracy and controversy, the fallout must be confronted. An exhausted and demoralised cast of delegates are challenged with creating some kind of policy approach ...

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Versailles #49: OTD 21st March 1919 - Hungary Sets The World On Fire

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A century ago today, Budapest was circling the drain of revolution, after several months of Bolshevik infiltration and grand promises, combined with mounting frustrations over Presi...

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Versailles #48: Ten Becomes Four

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Check out the collaboration I did w...

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Delegation Game #7: Slaying the Tiger

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Episode 7 of the game analyses the events surrounding the shocking murder of Georges Clemenceau, and the return of the American President to the scene. How will the President cope w...

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Versailles #47: A Presidential Return

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After a month back home in the States, it was high time Woodrow Wilson returned to face the music in Paris. Exactly what tune this music would contain varied depending on whom you a...

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Versailles #46: First Half of March, 1919

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Our largest episode yet, with an absolute legion of things to get through... it must be the first two weeks of March, 1919! Herein we see several things go down in the Council of Te...

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1956 Episode 2.12: Collusion and Delusion

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Episode 2.12: Collusion & Delusion follows on from the previous episode, and takes us to the contentious few days between 22-24 October 1956, where the war plan that would creat...

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Versailles #45: William Bullitt's Mission

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In episode 45 of the Versailles Anniversary Project, we examine the lesser known mission of William C. Bullitt, Philadelphia aristocrat and Ivy League prodigy – at least according...

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1956 Episode 2.11: A Protocol For War

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Episode 2.11: A Protocol For War takes us at long last into that controversial moment when Britain, France and Israel began to move closer together. The Sevres Protocol was neither ...

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1956 Episode 2.10: Israeli Sneaky

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Episode 2.9: Israeli Sneaky takes us first to a scene of division. The Commonwealth, seen as so vital to British interests, was beginning to fracture along the question of what the ...

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Versailles #44: From Russia, No Love

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In our latest episode, we introduce you to the revolutionary wasteland that was Russia in 1919. Russia was a very confusing place at this time, because it was the subject of a lot o...

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1956 Episode 2.9: The Fix Is In

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Episode 2.9: The Fix Is In looks at that moment which has become infamous in history – the collusion between Britain, France and Israel. We are almost ready to see these sneaky me...

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Versailles #43: Freikorps European Tour

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Before we delve into the Russian situation, I felt it would be beneficial, and darkly interesting, to examine what was happening in between the lands caught in the middle of the Rus...

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Versailles #42: Lodge's Reservations

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The unofficial second parter to our examination of Woodrow Wilson's campaign to get the League of Nations approved of back home, in episode 42 we further our analysis of the differe...

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Delegation Game #6: Power Vacuums

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In the aftermath of Woodrow Wilson's exit from Paris, along with the British and Italian premiers, Clemenceau was alone to hold the fort against a resurgent and empowered German del...

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