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When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Delegation Game #5: King Albert's Honour

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8773 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Oh boy, this is gonna be a good one! Episode 5 of the Delegation Game examines the aftermath of some pretty important deals which were passed, by hook or by crook, and which now challenge those present in Paris to adapt. The League of Nations Charter is the most significant of these, and in this very eventful, chunky episode, we examine the perspective of the King of the Belgians, Albert I, who was selected to chair this meeting according to the League's Charter. What's that? Woodrow Wilson wasn't selected? Well now, the President won't be happy about that will he? Within are additional alternative history developments, as the Germans shock the world by becoming accredited delegates in the Council of Ten, the French have a fit, and Dinglebrush Dinglebrushes...

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0:00.0

Thank you.

0:03.0

I'm going to All right, and we are live.

0:43.2

Welcome, welcome, history friends, delegates, all to episode five of the delegation game.

0:49.5

My, my, you have all been so very busy over the last week.

0:53.6

I asked you guys to make me a League of Nations,

0:56.3

and you did that as well as so much more. In fact, I think this is actually the busiest week

1:01.4

you guys have ever created. You made so many proposals, you did so much negotiation and

1:06.8

scheming and all that stuff, some stuff I probably didn't even notice, you've been very,

1:11.0

very busy indeed.

1:12.0

And everyone displayed a refreshing level of civility and professionalism throughout the course

1:17.1

of the negotiations.

1:18.6

Well, except for Dinglebrush, of course, but we can't always be lucky.

1:22.2

We can't win every time, but you guys did do a lot of winning.

1:25.0

A lot of proposals were passed, successful dice rolls and everything else, which is very, very nice.

1:30.3

Sorry, the episode is so late in the day, although even though I'm releasing this at 10pm my time,

1:35.3

I understand that because of this weird thing called time zones, some of you guys are getting it

1:39.8

at a quite reasonable hour.

1:41.4

So maybe I'll release it at a 10 p at 10pm GMT anyway in the future,

1:45.2

just because pretending that I can actually guarantee to deliver it at noon GMT,

1:50.2

which was the original plan, isn't always feasible.

1:53.7

In any case, as you can see, it's a massive episode today.

1:57.1

So let's get into some housekeeping before we actually launch it, because housekeeping is fun.

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