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Paul Hymans: Belgium

RRP: Price: £12.99
Haus Price: £10.40
Friends of Haus: £9.75
Publication Date:
2010-01-16
ISBN:
9781905791811
Format:
Hardback
Territory:
World
Category:
History, Makers of the Modern World, New Titles
Pages:
208
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Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
By Sally Marks
Paul Hymans (1865-1941). 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 Peace Conference was set up, it was determined to succeed in its claims for territory and reparations. Equally important was the need for security from larger nations’ ambitions. Only some of these would be achieved at Versailles, leaving a lasting legacy which influenced the country’s policy as the Second World War approached. Hymans instigated Belgium’s transition from the status of sheltered child to full participation in much great-power diplomacy.
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