The Literature of the Peace Conference

ROM the army o,f English-speaking experts who laboured during 1919 at the Majestic and th'e C;illon there came during 1920 the beginnings of a bibliography of the new diplomacy. Mr. Keynes was early in the field with his influential criticism of the peace and its makers, a criticism which has been not unfairly described by an American delegate ag "a political pamphlet disguised as an economic analyss. "2 His American colleague, Mr. Baruch,a examined the reparation and economic clauses without permitting himself the lu,Xury of a pyrotectmic Chapter III, and gave a valuable statement of the position adopted and maintained by Mr. Wilson's advisers, adding a verbatim report of an important debate on war costs, in which Mr. Dulles, one of the few "discoveries" of the Conference, clearly overwhelmed Mr. Hughes of Australia and M. Klotz in logical disputation. In 1920 came too the first serious efforts to exphin the territorial solutions. In addition to the second of the volumes edited by Mr. Temperley, which will be noticed later, appeared a series of lectures delivered at Harvard by the two professors of history from that university who played leading parts in the $aar and Polish settlements; 4 an.'d a small and quite uvprovocative study of the new map was made by an acknowledged geographical expert, 5 though not' one of those wh,,o so profoundly influenced certain sections of the treaty. It is, however, the present year that has already seen the most striking increase of Peace Conference literature. Mr. Lansing has published his piece iustificative against the charge that he should have resigned his position when he found his views diametrically

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