Ignotus
From Versailles to the war
CONTENTS
Tartalom
I. THE LOST PEACE
Beggars in the hotel - Peace and peace treaties - "Nie wieder krieg!"
II. "LA DOULOUREUSE"
Bills - From Tsar to Soviets - The Baltic - Biting off his own foot - Rome wants to be Rome - Smyrna, the "sphere of interest" - "Mare nostrum" - From Abyssinia to Hitler - The corpse in the kitchen.
III. THE PRINCIPLE OF NATIONALITIES
Beauty-treatment of maps - Nation and nationality - Artificial nations - Worse than a crime - Railway in a cul-de-sac - Bismarck, the British favourite - The buffer torn apart - "Danube Confederation" - Nations and humans.
IV. "SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY"
V. BREACH OF PROMISE
America regrets having created the world - Sheep in the pit - South America practises philosophy in Europe - Policeman without a truncheon - Democracy on the run - Democracy and Bolshevism - Forsaken Weimar - Guns against workers' flats - The Hradsin sleeps - Teschen was their only sorrow.
VI. THINGS WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN DONE
The murdered South German - A nation "omitted" - Plebiscite: for Hitler - There was no need to shoot himself - Postponed war: forfeited peace - The whale submerged.