Some Problems of the Peace Conference — John Shaqi
Some Problems of the Peace ConferenceHaskins, Charles Homer
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Some Problems of the Peace Conference
Haskins, Charles Homer
Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920); World War, 1914-1918 -- Territorial questions
So far the printed accounts of the Conference are the work of
journalists, who from the nature of the proceedings cannot be fully
informed. The most direct information was perhaps possessed by Ray
Stannard Baker, chief of the American service of publicity, but his
volume, _What Wilson did at Paris_ (New York, 1919), is _ex parte_
and very brief. E. J. Dillon, _The Inside History of the Peace
Conference_ (New York, 1920), is a diffuse composite of hearsay
and newspaper clippings; it is anti-French but in general friendly
to small nations. H. Wilson Harris, _The Peace in the Making_ (New
York, 1920), is an intelligent account by a fair-minded British
Liberal. Sisley Huddleston, _Peace-Making at Paris_ (London, 1919),
is more impressionistic. J. M. Keynes, _The Economic Consequences
of the Peace_ (London and New York, 1919), is the brilliant but
untrustworthy work of a British financial expert who finally repented
of the treaty. Influenced by German propaganda, it is in general
anti-French, anti-Belgian, and anti-Polish, and disparages political
self-determination in favor of economic frontiers. Of the various
critiques which the book has called out, the most searching is that of
David Hunter Miller, in the New York _Evening Post_, February 6 and
10, 1920, and in separate pamphlets.
A volume on the Conference, with an elaborate atlas, is announced by
an American territorial expert, Isaiah Bowman; a fuller work is in
preparation by British and American experts under the editorship of
Harold W. V. Temperley, of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Of the material collected in France for the Conference, the only
systematic publication is the _Travaux du Comité d’Etudes_, in two
volumes with an atlas (Paris, 1919). Most of the British material was
printed but not published, a useful exception being C. K. Webster,
_The Congress of Vienna_ (Oxford, 1918). The Foreign Office series
of _Handbooks_ has now been made public (London, 1920). The most
important American publication of the sort is the _Atlas of Mineral
Resources_ to be issued by the United States Geological Survey
(Washington, 1920).
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