Excerpt from The Inside Story of the Peace ConferenceIT is almost super¿uous to say that this book does not claim to be a history, however summary, of the Peace Conference, seeing that such a work was made sheer impossible by the chief Delegates themselves when they decided to dispense with records of their conversations and debates. It is only a sketch a sketch of the problems which the war created or rendered more acute, of the conditions under which they cropped up of the simplicist ways in which they were conceived by the distinguished politicians who volunteered to solve them of the Delegates' natural limitations and electioneering commit ments and of the secret in¿uences by which they were swayed of the peoples' needs and expectations, of the unwonted procedure adopted by the Conference and of the fateful consequences to the world of its decisions.In dealing with all those matters I aimed at impartiality, which is an unattainable ideal, but I trust that sincerity and detachment have brought me reasonably close to it. Having no pet theories of my own to champion, my principal standard of judgment is derived from the law of causality.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.