Gautam Mukunda schreef:
> > 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.
Point taken. Indeed the French pushed and the Americans caved under that
pressure. You are absolutely right. Sorry for the mistake. :o)
Sonja
>
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