> Behalf Of Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
> Only after they realised that WWII was a direct and
> inevitable result after the
> very harsh economic punishments (and as far as I know my
> history it was among
> others especially the American president who pushed for
> those harsh economic
> punishments) after WWI. Well at least they learned something.
>
> Sonja
Umm, Sonja, you need to check your history again. Woodrow Wilson, the
American President, was in fact the only major voice speaking
_against_ reparations and for a favorable peace with Germany. He was
essentially overwhelmed by David Loyd George and Georges Clemenceau.
Clemenceau famously quipped, in regards to Wilson's 14 points, which
were essentially an argument for a fair and generous peace, that
"Jesus Christ had only 10 Commandments." The generous peace after
World War II was largely because Roosevelt was willing to do what
Wilson was not - tell the British and French to go stuff themselves,
because we were running the show and didn't want to do this for a
_third_ time, and Churchill had the wisdom to agree. No one really
cared what the French thought.
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