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Paul Hymans: Belgium (Haus Publishing - Makers of the Modern World)
Sally Marks
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Hardcover. Paul Hymans was the champion of the small states in the League of Nations Commission at the Paris Peace Conference and was rewarded by becoming the League's first president. He thereby brought about Belgium's transition from the status of sheltered child to full participation in much great-power diplomacy. Series Editor(s): Sharp, Alan. Series: Makers of the Modern World. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps, black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDB; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 206 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
On 4 February 1919 in the League of Nations Commission at the Paris Peace Conference, Paul Hymans resisted minimal representation of small states on the League Council by shouting at Lord Robert Cecil, What you propose is a revival of the Holy Alliance of unhallowed memory!' It was Hymans, above all, who struggled to give the small states at the Conference a voice, making himself deeply disliked in the process. He was was rewarded by becoming the League's first president. Belgium had suffered the greatest degree of devastation in the Great War. When the country was liberated and the ... Read more
On 4 February 1919 in the League of Nations Commission at the Paris Peace Conference, Paul Hymans resisted minimal representation of small states on the League Council by shouting at Lord Robert Cecil, What you propose is a revival of the Holy Alliance of unhallowed memory!' It was Hymans, above all, who struggled to give the small states at the Conference a voice, making himself deeply disliked in the process. He was was rewarded by becoming the League's first president. Belgium had suffered the greatest degree of devastation in the Great War. When the country was liberated and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Haus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Series
Makers of the Modern World
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905791811
SKU
V9781905791811
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Ref
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About Sally Marks
Sally Marks is an independent historian in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is author of The Ebbing of European Ascendancy: An International History of the World 1914-1945 (2002), The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe 1918-1933 (1976, rev. ed. 2003) and Innocent Abroad: Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (1981), winner of the AHA's George Louis Beer ... Read more
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