Versailles Treaty Birth of World War II Reconsidered
Elmo Scott Watson revisits the 1919 Versailles peace Pact and its aftermath. The article analyzes the Covenant of the League of Nations, postwar borders, and arms limits while questioning whether the era’s hopes for a durable peace were realistic. It cites Germany’s obligations, colonial mandates, and the Rome Berlin axis context shaping future conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Union
Palace of Versailles
Paris
France
Prussia
Germany
North Sea
Baltic
Heligoland
Dune
Herr Hitler
League of Nations
Italy
United States
Uncle Sam
Great Britain
Africa
Hall of Mirrors
Versailles
Sultan M'Kwawa Skull and the Versailles Treaty
The tale links Germany’s 19th century East African campaigns against Wahabi Bantus led by Sultan M'Kwawa to Article 246 of the Versailles Treaty. After M'Kwawa’s death, Germany’s skull and the British demand for it stirred long parliamentary questions, while the claim of reparations proved elusive and later debated as a symbol of imperial cruelties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
M'kwawa
German East Africa
East Africa
Africa
Sultanate
M’kwawa
Allah
von Prinz
Merkal
Tanganyiks
Star Dust and Stars Make Ready in 1939 Screen World
Virginia Vale reviews Young Mr. Lincoln with Henry Fonda as a convincing Lincoln and praises Alice Brady Donald Meek and Richard Cromwell. Kenny Baker earns acclaim as Nanki Poo in The Mikado screen version. David Niven shines in Whose Wife? Bob Burns crafts spontaneous Thursday rehearsals. ODDS AND ENDS note Fairbanks Jr. vs Gable lookalike and other industry tidbits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star Dust
Abe Lincoln
Kenny
Bob Burns
Sven
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Fonda
Mr. Lincoln
Lincoln
Alice Brady
Donald Meek
Richard Cromwell
Kenny Baker
Radio Fame
Martyn Green
Sydney Granville
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Elizabeth Bergner
Baker
Victor Schertsinger
David Niven
Merle Oberon
Alexander Korda
Loretta Young
Gene Towne
Graham Baker
Tay Garnett
Mexican Tea Towels Brighten the Kitchen Pattern 1824
Brighten your kitchen with a seven motif transfer pattern from The Sewing Circle. Includes illustrations of stitches materials required and color schemes. Bend 15 cents and mail name address and pattern number to Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York NY.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Cornerstone of representative government in the Constitution
James G. Stahlman, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, declares the cornerstone of representative government was laid by the Federal Constitution and warns liberty perishes when the four freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and worship are abridged or abolished.
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Council of the
League of Nations
Kurt Schuschnigg
Austria
Germany
Eduard Benes
Czecho-Slovakia
United States
Rhine
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Czech
Sudetenland
Charles Lindbergh
Germa
TT Bose
James G. Stahlman
Publishera Dasociation
Flattery and its perils in human behavior
The excerpt notes that flattery deceives across characters: cowards fear, dependents seek gain, and friends are swayed by tenderness. It treats flattery as a common but unreliable influence in social relations.
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Hese
Sailles
Georges Clementin
David Lloyd Brze
Wood- Wilson
Vittoria Orlando
Verles
Leagu Nations
Wilson
Sten
Japan
Hwo
Gerhy
East Prussia
Mandatory Power
Ruanda Urundi
Belgium
Tanganyika
Cameroons
Togoland
Southwest Africa
Union of South Africa
Pacific Islands
Caroline, Marianne
Marshall Islands
New Guinea
Australia
Navru
Western Samoa
New Zealand
Virginia Vale
Spota
Stors
Bing Crosby
Aunt Boo
Suntsy
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Clark Gable
John Garfield
George Rass
Joan Crawford
Broadway
Sigrid Curie
Universal
Algiers
Western
THE
Cornei
Ydia B. Pinkham
Pinkham
Emerson
Drin
Hot Sobut
Tousen Allei
Watore
Doans
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