BOOK I

MILESTONES TO DISASTER
1919–May 10, 1940

“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once ‘the Unnecessary War’ There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.”

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EUROPE 1921 – AFTER THE PEACE TREATIES