I'm a history geek so I'm going to give a mention to this piece of news. 90 years ago today, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. The defining document of our times, the treaty that led to the Second World War and the destabilization in the Middle East.
I won't bore you with the details as Margaret MacMillan has written a very good book (Paris 1919) about the Paris Peace Conference and the price we still pay today for the decisions made.
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great, permanent noble things.
Harold Nicolson, British delegate to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference
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You know things were going to go south in a hurry when the Germans referred to the League of nations as the league of victors....
Almost 20 years later, Neville Chamberlain felt the same way after negotiating a peace agreement with Hitler, saying "We have peace in our time".
A few Months later, WW2 began.
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