Right now I am listening to Mgt McMillan's lectures on the Versailles conference...
What is interesting is how some of the small things at this conference led to other problems...
The German resentment is well known...
But what about both the Japanese and Chinese disappointment in the treaty? Or how the collapse of the Turkish empire led to modern Iraq being made out of three separate provinces that had little in common...
And how about that chef who tried to submit a petition about his small country....a man named Ho Chi Minh...
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