All 3 Uses of
Treaty of Versailles
in
The Remains of the Day
- This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an 'unofficial' international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised.†
Chpt 2m - *Versailles Treaty = the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I
- But the very fact that the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty made all the more imperative the need to bring to the gathering at Darlington Hall at least one French gentleman with unambiguous influence over his country's foreign policy.†
Chpt 2m -
- But I recall Lord Darlington opening the discussions by formally welcoming the guests, before going on to outline the strong moral case for a relaxing of various aspects of the Versailles treaty, emphasizing the great suffering he had himself witnessed in Germany.†
Chpt 2m -
Definition:
the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I; remembered for demanding exorbitant reparations from the Germans that helped lead to World War II