Memorial and Petition for Liberty: Presented to the President of the United States and to the Peace Conference in Paris (Classic Reprint)
Memorial and Petition for Liberty: Presented to the President of the United States and to the Peace Conference in Paris (Classic Reprint)

Author: Ukrainian Convention of the Connecticut

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-17

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780267647606

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Excerpt from Memorial and Petition for Liberty: Presented to the President of the United States and to the Peace Conference in Paris The part of Ukraine in question, being the subject of this peti tion, is Eastern Galicia and Kholm, the two provinces called West Ukraine and comprising an overwhelming majority, nearly 75 per cent. Of the Ukrainian population, which in arrogant spite of all principles of justice and humanity has been by a brute force of arms conquered by the imperialist Polish army and forcefully and against the will of the population annexed to Poland. Those two territories, kept for nearly six hundred years under a heel of a severe Polish oppression, have nevertheless preserved their Ukrainian character up to the present time, and now, when the time seemed near for their liberation, may we not ask the question: Are the same prominent persons going to hurl them in the abyss of slavery and ruin, who, standing at the brim of the abyss, preach the lofty ideas of liberty to them? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace
The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Author: John Maynard Keynes

Publisher: tredition

Published: 2022-05-09

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 334764302X

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The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes - The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) is a book written and published by the British economist John Maynard Keynes. After the First World War, Keynes attended the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as a delegate of the British Treasury. In his book, he argued for a much more generous peace, not out of a desire for justice or fairness – these are aspects of the peace that Keynes does not deal with – but for the sake of the economic well-being of all of Europe, including the Allied Powers, which the Treaty of Versailles and its associated treaties would prevent. The book was a best-seller throughout the world and was critical in establishing a general opinion that the treaties were a "Carthaginian peace" designed to crush the defeated Central Powers, especially Germany. It helped to consolidate American public opinion against the treaties and against joining the League of Nations. The perception by much of the British public that Germany had been treated unfairly was, in turn, a crucial factor in later public support for the appeasement of Hitler. The success of the book established Keynes' reputation as a leading economist, especially on the left. When Keynes was a key player in establishing the Bretton Woods system in 1944, he remembered the lessons from Versailles as well as the Great Depression. The Marshall Plan, which was promulgated to rebuild Europe after the Second World War, was similar to the system proposed by Keynes in The Economic Consequences of the Peace.