Versailles #39: OTD 19 Feb 1919 - Clemenceau's 'Accident'
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
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🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Three thousand miles from home, an American army is fighting for you. |
| 0:18.0 | To the end, it's the high ideals for which America stands may endure upon the earth. |
| 0:30.6 | I earnestly intrigued my countrymen to pause before they rush Hitler into this revolutionary change, which may well be irretrievable. |
| 0:51.0 | I know that it is hard for Americans to realize the magnitude of the war in which we are involved. |
| 0:59.6 | France and Italy, between them, have made waste people with Libya and their eyes and the whole |
| 1:05.3 | scheme of international relationships that in fairness confusion affairs of the world |
| 1:10.0 | can be set straight |
| 1:11.6 | only by the permit |
| 1:12.9 | and most determined |
| 1:14.4 | exhibition of the will |
| 1:15.7 | to leave and make the right to avail. |
| 1:18.9 | We're here |
| 1:20.4 | because we're here, |
| 1:22.8 | because we're here, |
| 1:25.0 | because we're here. |
| 1:26.9 | Because we're here. |
| 1:59.5 | The we're here, because we'renavursary Project Episode 39. |
| 2:08.5 | Today is the 19th of February 2019, and on this day in history 100 years ago, occurred the following events. |
| 2:12.6 | With Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George, both absent, George Clemenceau was holding the fort as far as the major leaders were concerned. |
| 2:20.9 | His concerns were legion, but with the American president, conspicuous by his absence, there was reason to be positive that he could bend Edward House to his will. |
| 2:30.4 | If an agreement was properly hammered out and buttoned up before Woodrow Wilson returned, then Clemenceau could achieve his major goal, that of keeping Germany down. |
| 2:39.6 | The League had been a foolish distraction, an institution so uninteresting to him that he placed one of his least favourite individuals, Leon Bourgeois, upon its commission. |
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