Abstract

Since the Peace

This article discusses the book "Versailles," by Karl Friedrich Nowak. Nowak, who begins his book with a stirring account of the armistice episode, pictures Foch on that occasion as "betraying in his surliness and ill-temper his real feelings about what he regarded as the premature ending of the war." Foch appears to better advantage later and seems to have withstood with some credit the "brutally frank" attacks of Clemenceau. The central figure of the book, however, is President Wilson. It is going too far to describe Wilson as "the greatest international jurist and interpreter of constitutions in Princeton University and perhaps in the world," but there is no doubt that he "despised Europe's blood-stained past, with its ancient legacies of tribal wars and was determined to impose upon it for all time a new testament of pure humanity."