The Pros And Cons Of The Paris Peace Conference

In 1919 the countries involved in World War I met at the Paris Peace Conference in hope to find solutions to maintain world peace. In hope to maintain world peace, the Allies who won World War I created an agreement between themselves and the defeated countries. John Maynard Keynes - an English economist – worked for the British government with a position at the treasury. He attended the Paris Peace Conference and wrote the book The Economic Consequences of Peace, in which he stated his opinions about the treaty.

However, the treaty, which was designed to maintain world peace, was seen as a diplomatic verbiage. In addition, there was no stability, or binding force in the treaty. At the conference the League of Nations was created, but also seen as a diplomatic verbiage because it was designed in the same way as the treaty. Nevertheless, the most binding and central provision of the treaty, is an unrecorded clause, which states that the Allies tried to suppress Soviet Russia. president made all the major decisions together with representatives from Great Britain, Italy, and France. The U.S. president, Woodrow Wilson wrote a statement with fourteen points that was used for the peace negotiations. The points were drawn in the Mid-Victorian Liberalism; however, in the meantime, democracy had outgrown the Mid-Victorian Liberalism. The problem with the fourteen points was that the demand of absentee ownership was incompatible with the humane principles of the Mid-Victorian Liberalism. In addition, communism is a threat to the absentee of ownership. Therefore, to be able to eliminate the communism they had to discard the fourteen points. Even though some people saw the U.S. president as defeated because his points didn’t go through, it wasn’t much of a defeat because the main objective was to overcome the communism. The President did lose some of his own prestige; however, the Allies got one step closer to overcome the