Edward Mandell House Quotes
… empires cannot be shattered and new states raised upon their ruins without disturbance. To create new boundaries is always to create new troubles. The one follows the other.
He unfortunately turned out to be right as Germany started WWII to get back the territory that they lost at the Treaty of Versailles for starting WWI.
Edward Mandell House, 1858-1938, Army Colonel and Aide to President Woodrow Wilson Edward Mandell House, 1858-1938, Army Colonel and Aide to President Woodrow Wilson, Description of Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles WWI Peace Conference, Concerns about the WWI Versailles Peace Treaty, Diary, June 29, 1919
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The Romanovs were the family of the Russian Czars while the Hapsburgs were the family names of the Emperors of Austria. The Austrian Army Chief of Staff hated the Russians and was constantly urging war against Czarist Russia. The archduke, the heir to the Austrian throne, was constantly arguing against attacking Russia. When Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, it triggered WWI. He was no longer able to have a voice against war, and Austria and Russia were soon at war. At the end of WWI, the Austrian Empire—an ally of Germany was broken up and the Russian Revolution ended the Romanov dynasty. The Archduke was absolutely right.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. England had occupied Iraq, expecting to be welcomed by the natives, but like the George W. Bush ill-fated invasion almost a century afterward calls for withdrawal were met by the same rationale for maintaining the occupation. The English policy makers like the Bush administration were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
The Sultan of Turkey had just committed the Empire to a jihad against Britain in support of Germany in WWI: 1st Earl of Oxford
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Referring to the peace negotiations following World War I: 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
and later wife. Stevenson is describing the German foreign minister’s behavior at Versailles and Lloyd George’s angry reaction.
He was one of the first democratic politicians of Germany who argued for rapprochement between France and Germany and may have been the first to suggest a European Union. Most of the world was very distrustful of German nationalism, and Stresemann presented one of the positive aspects of it. He died of a stroke in 1929 and the political vacuum was eventually filled by Hitler and the Nazis as the Weimar Republic was short lived. As democratic as Stresemann was, he still was preoccupied with German territorial control. Germany’s aggression in WWI led to a peace treaty that fixed borders that were always contested by Germany. The German position was that if there was an area or France, Poland, or other country where there was a community of German speaking people, then that area should be a part of Germany. This was one of the main reasons for Germany’s aggression on WWII.
Vidal was one of the first who suggested that America may be in a state of decline. He deliberately used the language of the famous, classic work by Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
What makes the situation even more complicated is that most of the land of the Middle East has been governed by a succession of Empires who may have drawn the lines differently from the previous governing dynasty. For example, the land that is Israel today, has been governed by Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, Romans, various Arab dynasties, Turkey, England, and the Jews again. Turkey governed it for the longest period.
since the end of WWI The railroads were nationalized for WWI and he ran them all as a government official
Edward Mandell House was an American diplomat, and an advisor to President Woodrow Wilson. He was known by the nickname Colonel House, although he had performed no military service. He was a highly influential back-stage politician in Texas before becoming a key supporter of the presidential bid of Wilson in 1912. Having a self-effacing manner, he did not hold office but was an "executive agent", Wilson's chief advisor on European politics and diplomacy during World War I (1914–18) and at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. In 1919 Wilson, suffering from a series of small strokes, broke with House and many other top advisors, believing they had deceived him at Paris.
