Versailles #48: Ten Becomes Four
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Check out the collaboration I did with Thom Daly, where we talked about Ireland and Brexit!
As the Paris Peace Conference welcomed back the American President and the Big Three began to entrench themselves once more into the familiar grind, it became clear that much had changed. Rather than move further away from each other, it was fortunate indeed that the allied leaders determined to double down on their efforts to foster cooperation by gathering together for a new kind of meeting – the first assembly of the Council of Four. For the next few months, the meeting synonymous with personable allied meetings, great progress and large egos would dominate the halls of Paris. Yet, in this episode, as we’ll see, the meeting had humble beginnings, and its results hardly suggested that the allies were onto a winning formula. Within this show, we will also draw on the observations provided by House, to build a picture of an allied front which contained no end of problems, but a reassuring determination nonetheless to push through these difficulties, and create a new world order on the other side which all could be proud of. It was the end of an old phase of the conference, and the beginning of something brand new…
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. My name is Zach Twomley and you're about to listen to the latest episode of the Versailles Anniversary Project. |
| 0:05.9 | Before we go any further, you should know that this episode is brought to you by Brexit. No, seriously, it is because in a, well, it's not really. |
| 0:13.6 | But in a way it is because, recently, I did a episode talking all about Brexit and its impact on Ireland with Tom Daly of the American |
| 0:22.5 | Biography podcast. If you'd like to find that episode, if you'd like to hear what I think about |
| 0:27.1 | Brexit and all of its glories, then check that out. It's super easy to do so. All you have to do |
| 0:33.0 | is search Agora Podcast Network in wherever you get your podcasts from, or if you don't like searching |
| 0:38.6 | for things, just click on the link in the description below. The Agora Podcast Network is, of course, |
| 0:44.3 | the podcast network that I am part of, and I should mention it more often, but I don't, |
| 0:48.6 | because I'm, well, liable to forget these things. The Agora Podcast Network is full of other |
| 0:53.4 | podcasts, |
| 0:55.7 | just like when diplomacy fails, |
| 0:57.2 | that deal with history, politics, |
| 0:58.7 | all sorts of stuff. |
| 1:00.1 | So you should check them out. |
| 1:01.7 | We're a great bunch of folks. |
| 1:03.7 | And I should emphasize that I really, |
| 1:05.6 | really enjoyed meeting with all of them last November in Harvard. |
| 1:07.3 | With all that out of the way, though, guys, |
| 1:08.9 | and with that little advertisement done, |
| 1:11.3 | I'd just like to say, welcome, and I hope you enjoy the show. |
| 1:34.9 | 3,000 miles from home, an American army is fighting for you. |
| 1:42.0 | To the end, it's the high ideals for which America stands may endure upon the earth. |
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