Western Civilization - History Of European Society

554Chapter 28

after the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, could only
hope that the treaty would be based on the idealistic
Fourteen Points stated in early 1918, in a speech by
U.S. president Woodrow Wilson (who had endorsed
“peace without victory” as late as 1916). Although
dozens of states sent diplomats to Paris, the basic ele-
ments of the treaties were negotiated among represen-
tatives of the “Big Four” wartime allies—chiefly by
Wilson, Premier Georges Clemenceau of France, and

Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain, and

sometimes including Premier Vittorio Orlando of Italy.

This was similar to the situation at Vienna in 1815

(where France had initially been excluded from negoti-

ations among the four victorious great powers), with an

important exception: One of the great powers that had

fought long for the allied cause, Russia, was an ex-

cluded pariah state in 1919, governed by Communist

revolutionaries who had negotiated a separate peace.

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