The terms of the document misnamed the Peace Treaty . . . violate the conditions of the Armistice. . . . They do not bring an en
d to militarism, but fasten the system more firmly on the peoples of the Allied countries. . . . The treaty is a capitalist, militarist, and imperialist imposition. . . . It does not give the world peace, but the certainty of other and more calamitous [catastrophic] wars. –Manchester Guardian,
May 9, 1919
How does this passage reflect the British reaction at the end of World War I?
It claims that Germany has been treated unfairly.
It calls for a harsher punishment for Germany.
It demands recognition for the British role in the war.
It explains that the treaty will effectively prevent future wars.
Driven by French and British desires to make Germany pay for the job it had played in the most difficult strife the world had at this point seen, Wilson and the other Allied delegates at the harmony gathering had for sure moved away from an unadulterated harmony without success.
The Versailles Treaty was marked on 1919. In the interim, restriction to the bargain and its Article 231, seen as an image of the treachery and cruelty of the entire archive, rotted inside Germany.
