The Hello and welcome history friends, delegates all to episode 15 of the delegation game. Last week we ended on something

of an incredible cliffhanger as Woodrow Wilson appeared to have succumbed to the intense

pressures of life in the London Conference. We will deal with the implications of Wilson's

episode today but by and large our episode will be dominated by the undertaking known as the Clemenceau Directive,

the long-running plan between the French and Poles, above all, to arrange an invasion of Bolshevik Russia

from Warsaw. Conveniently for me, the Polish border treaty has passed, which makes everything

a little less ridiculous in the East. It also makes things clearer for Poland's

delegates and her neighbours, and clarity is something in short supply in this game. All delegates

should be excited and encouraged because this right here is the first example of a truly

different outcome to the real-life Paris Peace Conference that they have helped create.

Unlike in our Delegation Game timeline, of course, the Big Three essentially left Russia to its own devices, once it became apparent that White Russian forces, under Admiral Colchak, could not eke

out victory. Any support that the White Russians did muster came far too late, but here in our delegation

game timeline, thanks to the underhanded actions of the Bolsheviks, above all in striking

down the war hero, George Clemenceau, support for an anti-Bolshevik intervention into Russia

remains at an all-time high. Guided first and foremost by the desire for revenge, the French and their Polish allies

are also bolstered by the addition of several Tiger Brigades, constituted of volunteers from

loads of different countries. Stay tuned until the end of the episode to learn how you'll be

able to shape the fate of this intervention through your vote. Our episode is

pulled largely between three different scenes, the Skeleton Conference, which remains in London,

the deeply disconcerting confines of Woodrow Wilson's private chambers, and the triumphant,

ambitious atmosphere of the parade ground at Warsaw, where the Council for Russian Freedoms

meets to bless the fulfillment of the

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