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TRAITE DE PAIX ENTRE LES PUISSANCES ALLIEES ET ASSOCIEES ET L'ALLEMAGNE ET PROTOCOLE SIGNES A VERSAILLES LE 28 JUIN 1919.TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS AND GERMANY AND PROTOCOL SIGNED AT VERSAILLES JUNE 28 1919 wrapper title

1919Best.-Nr. WRCAM49707Paris 1919. xv14284pp. printed in French and English on facing pages plus four large folding maps. Folio. Original printed wrappers. Minor edge wear small nick on front cover. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened. In a cardboard chemise and slipcase. Official French printing of the Treaty of Versailles a document of monumental importance in American and world history. The treaty made with Germany at the end of the First World War concluded a war of unrivalled devastation while sowing the seeds for the Second World War just twenty years on the horizon. The United States guided by Woodrow Wilson's vision played a central role in the crafting of the treaty. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty however based on the objection of several senators to the Covenant of the League of Nations which was included as Part I of the settlement thereby largely removing American influence and involvement from the international scene in the inter-war period. The Treaty of Versailles was a wide-ranging and ambitious document which sought not only to address the immediate postwar settlement but to punish Germany for its actions in starting and prosecuting the war attempted to remake the map of Europe and created a supra-national political organization the League of Nations. The Covenant of the League of Nations comprises the first part of the treaty. The next most famous part is that dealing with reparations which includes Article 231 the infamous "war guilt clause." By this article Germany accepted the responsibility of her and her allies "for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies." The intent of the article was to affix legal and financial responsibility on Germany but it took on moral implications and was used by Hitler during his rise as an example of Allied perniciousness. Germany had to agree to pay reparations to the allies in the sum of 20000000000 gold marks the amount to be modified by a reparations commission in 1921. Germany also had to recognize the independence of Austria and agree not to compromise that independence in the future. Germany's borders were redrawn with Alsace- Lorraine being given to France West Prussia to Poland and other lands such as Danzig and the Saar Basin stripped away. She lost her overseas possessions the Rhineland was occupied and the German army was limited to one hundred thousand men and largely disarmed. Other provisions address issues of tariffs ports labor aerial navigation prisoners of war and more. As has been noted the many punitive measures of the Treaty of Versailles did much to fan the seeds of discontent in post-war Germany and to facilitate the rise of Hitler who publicly flaunted the provisions of the treaty throughout the 1930s. The refusal of the United States to ratify the treaty and participate in the League of Nations was a crucial part in the chain of events that led to the Second World War. A most important document here in an official French printing with the Protocol as a separate signature at the end. unknown books

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Peace Handbooks.

1920Best.-Nr. 156234London: HMSO 1920. An attractively bound collection of the famous Foreign Office handbooks First editions thus of 125 briefing handbooks on different countries territories and aspects of international law which featured prominently in the Versailles negotiations and in interwar geopolitical relations. The handbooks were originally prepared and published internally by the Foreign Office for the use of British delegates to the Paris Peace Conference. In spring 1917 the FO established a dedicated historical section under the direction of George Walter Prothero 1848-1922 a former president of the Royal Historical Society to compile information on the history geography economy culture and present situation of participating countries and their colonies. Assistance with data and maps was provided by the Admiralty intelligence division naval staff the war trade intelligence department and the geographical section of the General Staff military intelligence division of the War Office. In 1919 over 160 handbooks were eventually issued in blue wrappers. In 1920 "in response to numerous enquiries and requests" the FO decided to release the guides to the public in green wrappers under the HMSO imprint with the text of each substantially unaltered. Several of the internal publications were consolidated into one or published under a different title. This wide-ranging collection encompasses over three quarters of the 162 handbooks issued by HMSO: numbers 1-14 17-23 25-31 33-41 64-66 68-71 74 76-142 144-152 and 154-161. These include many contested European regions - for example Alsace-Lorraine 30 and Lorraine and Saar Minefields 31 - and regional analyses such as France and the Levant 66. It includes many desirable works in the series including Persian Gulf 76 with details of the histories and political situations of the Gulf states Manchuria 69 the extraterritorial cantons of Kiaochow and Weihaiwei 71 and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 98. Together 125 works in 12 vols octavo 205 x 132 mm. With 3 tables recording Kiel Canal tonnage map of Easter Island. Near-contemporary red half morocco Hatchards Piccadilly red cloth sides spines lettered and ruled in gilt raised bands tooled with gilt dotted rolls light pink endpapers top edges gilt. Bound without the original green wrappers for each handbook. A little bumping and rubbing neatly recoloured "Africa" volume with joints repaired and creasing to book block tape repair at fore-edge of "Upper Silesia" p. 34 a few leaves browned in "German Opinion on National Policy Prior to July 1914: Part II" else clean and bright internally. A very good collection indeed presenting attractively on the shelf. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Vereinigtes Königreich3.500,00 £≈ 4.165,28 €

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