A Boat Against the Current

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Showing posts with label Treaty of Versailles. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Treaty of Versailles. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Quote of the Day (John Maynard Keynes, on the Fallout From WWI and The Failed Treaty of Versailles)

“If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for very l...

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Quote of the Day (Pope Benedict XV, on Peace and the “Germs of Former Enmities”)

“…[I}f in most places peace is in some sort established and treaties signed, the germs of former enmities remain; and you well know, Venerab...

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MikeT: I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand

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