ABSTRACT
People often think and speak and write as if this failure were not only deplorable but extraordinary, and not to be expected. They seem to assume that there must have been not only very great villains at work on one side, but also very great fools at work on the other to produce such a result. The treaties dictated by the Paris Conference were named after various places in the neighbourhood, the German treaty being called the Treaty of Versailles. It was followed by the Treaty of Saint-Germains with Austria, the Treaty of Trianon with Hungary, the Treaty of Neuilly with Bulgaria, and finally, in 1920, the Treaty of Sevres with Turkey. The disruption of the old Habsburg Empire, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, was not the work of the Conference. It had been already accomplished in the last weeks of the war and the interval between the armistice and the treaties.
