Anglo-American Relations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919

xiv, 442 pages. Footnotes. DJ is price clipped and has small chips, tears, and some soiling. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Notes on Sources, Bibliography, and Index. Also Includes Chapters on The Evolution of Anglo-American War Aims, 1917-1918; From the Pre-armistice Agreement to the Opening of the Peace Conference; The Opening of the Peace Conference and the Anglo-American Controversy over Colonial Claims and the Mandate Principle; The Covenant of the League of Nations: An Anglo-American Document; Anglo-American Policy and the Russian Revolution, 1919; Anglo-American Issues Arising from the "Preliminary Peace," the Military Clauses, and the Disposition of German Sea Power; The Principle of self-determination in Anglo-American Policy; French Security and the Territorial Settlement of Western Europe; The Principle of Self-Determination in Anglo-American Policy; Territorial Problems of Eastern Europe and the Middle East; The Conflict of British and American Policies in the Reparations Settlement; Problems of Immediate and Long-range Economic Cooperation; The Revision of the Convenant and Anglo-American Naval Rivalry; The Birth of the International Labor Organization; The Trial of the Kaiser; American Principles Versus British Treaty Obligations; The Territorial Claims of Italy and Japan; The Anglo-American Reaction Against the draft Treaty and Lloyd George's Proposals for Revision, May 7-June 28; The Breakdown of Anglo-American Cooperation in the Final Stages of the Peace Conference; and Epilogue and Conclusions. Anglo-American Relations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 highlights the relationships between the United Kingdom and the United States during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920. This book gives a full account of diplomatic relations between the United States and England during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The author points out the fundamental community of purpose and interest between the United States and England, despite their failure to translate that basic unity into a common strategy, jointly announced. The year 1919 marks a high point in the world power and prestige of Western democracy. World War I was ended, and the victory belonged to the democratic states. Theirs was the sober task-and the unique opportunity-of formulating a settlement that would guarantee impartial justice and preserve the peace. Dr. Tillman examines here the documentary account of Anglo-American diplomatic relations during this critical period. He shows the interaction of personalities in both governments, the patterns of cooperation and conflict as they negotiated major issues of war and of peace, and the political repercussions in both England and America that led either to compromise or to defeat of some of the best purposes of the Versailles Treaty. Seth P. Tillman, was a key aide to the late Sen. J. William Fulbright who wrote many of the lawmaker's most noted speeches and helped shape his powerfully influential opposition to the Vietnam War. Few know of the extent to which Dr. Tillman helped alter history by working in private on the stands Fulbright took in public. Dr. Tillman was a Capitol Hill intern fresh from a doctoral program in foreign affairs when he went to work in 1961 for Fulbright's committee. He quickly became a principal aide in the Arkansas Democrat's Senate office as well as on the committee. Much of Dr. Tillman's influence derived from his philosophical kinship with his boss. Dr. Tillman assisted Fulbright during his committee's high-profile hearings on the war. He was widely described as a chief collaborator - if not the ghostwriter - behind some of Fulbright's most important addresses and publications in the 1960s. They included his 1964 foreign policy speech "Old Myths and New Realities" and the lectures that became Fulbright's 1966 book, "The Arrogance of Power." Norvill Jones, a former committee staff colleague, credited Dr. Tillman with influencing the senator's views on presidential war po.…