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Article: Still picking up the tab.(A book on the Paris Peace Confernde of 1919)(Book Review)
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- February 14, 2003
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Paris 1919 Six Months that Changed the World Margaret Macmillan Random House, $35, 570 pp.
In Peacemaking, his classic memoir of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Harold Nicholson regretted that he could not capture "the double stress of turmoil and time-pressure" that shaped his experience as a junior member of the British delegation: "One writes the sentence: 'It was a period of unremitting strain.' The sedative notes of such a sentence, as applied to the scurrying cacophony of the Peace Conference, forces one to smile." The great achievement of Margaret Macmillan's Paris 1919 is to provide a lucid and orderly account of the conference without losing sight of ...