Table of Contents

Part 1: The Wartime Background 1. Initial Attitudes on Basic Problems 2. The American Factor and British Policy, 1917-18 3. The Armistice and Territorial Questions Part 2: Pre-Conference Preparations 4. Advice of the Experts 5. Governmental Attitudes before Paris Part 3: The Making of the Settlement 6. The German-Polish Frontier 7. ‘Dinner instead of Danzig’ 8. The Rhine Frontier 9. The Treaty of Guarantee 10. Lloyd George, Wilson, and the Saar Dilemma 11. Czechoslovakia, Austria and Greater Germany 12. The Low Countries: Zinc, Strategy and Compensations 13. Appeasement of Statesmanship? 14. Conclusions

About the Author

Harold I. Nelson