Versailles #38: Wrestling With Wilson
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today we bravely venture to where this podcast normally steers clear - American politics. This is an essential trip though, because we must examine what happened in the US once the President returned there to present his League between 20 February and 8 March 1919. This period was spent campaigning for the new world order which Wilson so desperately wanted, and which he had fought for in person in Paris for a month. Yet, underneath the surface, and even underneath the open opposition which Republicans and Democrats alike mounted against his vision, there were other issues which Wilson had brought upon himself, and others which have since been laid at his feet regardless of fault. It was an immensely challenging time, and would ultimately come to be known the unsuccessful sequel to the Paris Peace Conference - the Treaty Fight...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, and welcome to When Diplomacy Fails. My name is Zach Twomley, podcaster, lecturer, |
| 0:05.7 | Delegation Game Master, and an all-round, wonderful chap. This is the 38th installment of the Versailles |
| 0:11.9 | anniversary project, so if you've never listened to this project before, maybe go and do that, |
| 0:16.3 | because otherwise, you'll have no idea what's going on. If you're wondering how we managed to |
| 0:20.4 | squeeze 38 episodes out of something like the Treaty of Versailles, when normally all you hear about |
| 0:25.3 | that treaty is that it caused the Second World War, then, well, that should just tell you |
| 0:29.9 | everything that this podcast is all about. When diplomacy fails, goes in depth into things that |
| 0:34.9 | happened in history, and we have never gone more in depth into anything |
| 0:39.8 | than the Treaty of Versailles. We've been looking at this since early November, so that should |
| 0:44.4 | give you an idea of exactly how deep we are and we're not even nearly finished yet. If you're |
| 0:49.6 | wondering, again, because there's lots of things to wonder when seeing this show and its massive |
| 0:53.8 | back catalogue. |
| 0:54.9 | If you're wondering how I managed to have time to do that, it's because this is a listener-supported |
| 0:59.3 | podcast supported by fans of when diplomacy fails just like you. |
| 1:03.6 | We bring it to you several times a week absolutely free, and we're able to do that because |
| 1:08.1 | you guys support so well on Patreon. |
| 1:11.4 | To the extent that this podcast forms a large part of my income and is pretty much my job. |
| 1:16.8 | It is my job, but I also have another job as a lecturer in a university, |
| 1:20.9 | just in case you're wondering exactly whose act formally is. |
| 1:24.5 | For $1 a month, you can get 10 episodes of Louis X 14th's Arms and Armies. I've |
| 1:29.6 | seen several people come and snap that up. If you wanted to come, pay $1,000, listen to all that |
| 1:34.1 | stuff in a day and then cancel your dollar. Well, I'd be kind of like, what just happened, |
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