Versailles #15: OTD 13 Dec 1918 - Wilson's Welcome
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 13th December 1918 - US President Woodrow Wilson lands in France.
Woodrow Wilson had a vital role to play in the Treaty of Versailles, and was certainly the most dynamic actor in the Paris Peace Conference. Apparently immune to the old trappings of statecraft, intrigue and power, Wilson represented something new and promising for those French citizens and Europeans who were sick of war and who longed for something better. Wilson's rapturous welcome convinced him that he had done the right thing by deciding to travel to Paris personally, even though many had disapproved back home.
Flattered, excited, vindicated though he was, the reception did not last. Wilson would never be so popular in France again...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, history friends. My name is Zach Twomley and this is the latest episode of the Versailles |
| 0:05.1 | Anniversary Project. Normally when I start these things, I'd like to let you know the best way to support. |
| 0:10.9 | Maybe I'll talk about the delegation game where you can create your own delegate and send them to Paris. |
| 0:16.5 | That is, of course, a very good thing to do. But I'm all about telling those that want to help for free about the best ways, well, to support and to help out this podcast. |
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| 0:33.2 | If you want, you can tell other people about it, but really, that's a great thing to do, because it means that people who come across the podcast will see your review and will be like, oh, |
| 0:42.0 | people actually like this show, so I'll go and listen to it. |
| 0:44.4 | If you are aware of how iTunes reviews work, then you'll know that it's impossible to actually |
| 0:50.8 | challenge them, which can be a bit problematic when certain people with |
| 0:55.5 | certain opinions come along and say something not very favourable, and then the unfavorable |
| 1:00.5 | review is kind of just stuck there and there's nothing I can really do about it. |
| 1:04.0 | So in line with that, I thought I'd do this thing called name and shame. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, it's not really name and shame because these people are using pseudonym |
| 1:11.2 | so we don't actually know their names. And maybe this comes across as a little bit bitter, |
| 1:14.7 | but sometimes I get a bit annoyed because of the way iTunes works. And of course, the way people |
| 1:19.5 | might misunderstand me or call me out on something and then, well, not really give me any chance |
| 1:24.8 | to respond. So yes, name and shame. And I don't really buy the whole, |
| 1:28.5 | well, you shouldn't be reading them out because if they put them on iTunes, then they're happy |
| 1:32.6 | for them to be seen. So, why wouldn't they be happy for them to be read out? In any case, |
| 1:36.6 | this is an iTunes review left relatively recently, and it's by a guy called Jimbo 5301 and the title is too clever by half. |
| 1:45.6 | Now this is about the Korean War series we did, but this is just to give you an idea of the kind of stuff that when diplomacy fails is up against. |
| 1:51.6 | If you weren't aware, our Korean War series was a slight bit unconventional and we thought about things outside the box. |
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