Versailles #69: Big Three And One
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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My agora friends and others are going to be in New York for a special conference on 29th June - meet Mike Duncan, Kevin Stroud, David Crowther and more! Search Intelligent Speech Conference now! Use the code WDF to get 5% off your ticket!
The aftermath of the Greek landing was one thing, but there was no ignoring the reception which the peace treaty received in Germany either. The Big Three, sometimes joined by Italy, worked through their to-do list between 16-19 May - by the way yes, apologies for this episode being rather late... But it's no later than the British, American and French reaction to the news of German problems with their treaty. You'll be unsurprised to learn, the Germans had problems with this draft that reached to the very core of its 440 articles, and they were loud in their expressions of disgust. They were not the only ones. Despite the grave criticisms which were leveled against the Treaty, Wilson stood firmly against them. He was, he believed, fighting the good fight, even if the end result was not perfect.
The League would make things right in the world, and that was what mattered now, not the hurt feelings of the Irish, the Chinese, or especially the Italians. This latter party were the most prolific in their disappointments by far - in fact, at one point on a sunny day in mid-May, the Italians faced the full wrath of its three weary allies, who just wanted the Italians to roll over. As Vittorio Orlando knew full well though, this was not an option. He would have to hold on, to Fiume, or the Treaty of London, or whatever he could, with results that tore at the very fabric of the allied accord, but which also make for positively fascinating listening. So why not pull a chair up, make sure Italy isn't sitting on it first, and see how it was that the big four became the big three and one!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there history friends, Zach Twomley here. As always, delivering you the latest installment of the Versailles Anniversary Project. |
| 0:07.6 | If you were not aware, when diplomacy fails is a member of the Agora podcast network, which is a wonderful network of other independent history and non-history podcasts that aim to educate you, bring you information, and just give you some good audio content. |
| 0:24.8 | The reason why I bring this up isn't just because it's a good fact that you should be aware of, |
| 0:29.2 | but also because the Agora Podcast Network is essentially organizing what's being called the Intelligent Speech Conference, |
| 0:37.3 | which you can find out more about by going |
| 0:39.2 | to Intelligent Speechconference.com or following the link in the description below. |
| 0:44.4 | If you enter in the code WDF, you'll get 5% off the tickets for the event, and you should know that |
| 0:50.2 | the tickets have been significantly reduced in price because the lovely people in charge of |
| 0:55.4 | organizing the event, that is Royfield Brown, managed to track down a much better, more roomy venue. |
| 1:01.3 | So if you would like to hear from and potentially meet podcasters such as David Crowther, |
| 1:07.2 | Kevin Stroud, and even Mike Duncan, yes I said Mike Duncan of History of Roman Revolution's fame, |
| 1:12.9 | then make sure and go and check that out. That is Intelligent Speechconference.com |
| 1:18.1 | or use the hashtag Intel Speech19. Unfortunately I won't be able to be there because I can't |
| 1:23.9 | bring myself to New York by the 29th of June, but you should definitely go in any case. |
| 1:29.6 | And who knows, maybe in the future, if these things do well enough, I will be able to bring myself |
| 1:33.7 | to the United States of America once again. |
| 1:37.9 | Maybe meeting people in person is not your thing, though. |
| 1:40.7 | Maybe you'd rather do things over social media over the interweb in that case |
| 1:45.3 | when diplomacy fails is gotcha covered simply check out when diplomacy fails on twitter or on |
| 1:51.3 | facebook at wdf podcast facebook group facebook page you know the drill by now what you may not know is that |
| 1:58.9 | this podcast has recently joined an app called Flick. Flick is a |
| 2:02.5 | great way to bypass all of those, perhaps more awkward social media platforms, and simply get |
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