Versailles #61: The Last Day of April
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The 30th April was a strange day. It was barely a microcosm in the grand scheme of the Paris Peace Conference, and it was wedged awkwardly between the Italian walkout and the German arrival, not to mention the madcap adventures of the drafting committee, as hundreds of overworked printers and technicians worked to get the Treaty finished within 48 hours - the intended deadline at this stage. It is little wonder that the big three were busy then - they held no fewer than FIVE meetings on the same day. What did they have to show for it by the end? Some notes taken on the Italian feelings, the confirmation of Japanese intransigence over China, and French stubbornness over Alsace-Lorraine...and that was it! If the allies continued to work without working like this for the next few days, then it didn't look good for either the drafting committee, or the Peace Conference itself. As a new month dawned, the big three seemed more sluggish than ever...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, my name is Zach Tomla, you're about to listen to the latest episode of the Versailles Anniversary Project. |
| 0:05.5 | In case you are wondering, this is episode 61, which means that 60 episodes in this |
| 0:11.6 | Wapper project have already been released since we started it in early November. |
| 0:17.9 | By that logic, you should hopefully realize that jumping in here out of nowhere is |
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| 0:32.3 | waiting for me to get on with this, thanks for joining us for this ridiculous project and I hope you're able to keep up with |
| 0:38.4 | it as much as possible. It's been a crazy last few days. We've seen an awful lot of things |
| 0:44.0 | happening and the way that the structure of this project works means that maybe you'll have |
| 0:49.1 | some idea now as to exactly how busy these people were a century ago. You might also be realizing that this is taking an awful lot of work, and yeah, it is taking |
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