154.That conventional wisdom is summarized and critiqued in Margaret MacMillan,
155.MacMillan,
156.MacMillan,
157.MacMillan,
158.Political Intelligence Department, “Bolshevik Aims in the West and in the East,” February 19, 1920, CAB 24/99/55, TNA.
159.“Effect of Secret Diplomacy on the Public Mind,” April 4, 1919, Private Memorandum, Robert Lansing Papers, LC.
160.“Mantoux’s Notes of Two Meetings of the Council of Four,” March 27, 1919,
161.“Hankey’s Notes of Two Meetings with the Council of Ten,” January 15, 1919,
162.Imperial War Cabinet, December 30, 1918, CAB 23/42, TNA.
163.John Maynard Keynes,
164.John Thompson,
165.Wilson, “Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Conditions of Peace,” January 8, 1918, APP.
166.Imperial War Cabinet, December 30, 1918, CAB 23/42, TNA.
167.Edward House, diary entry, October 28, 1918, EHP; Kagan, “Woodrow Wilson.”
168.Wilson, Address at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, September 27, 1918,
169.Wilson, Address at Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles, September 20, 1919,
170.Noble,
171.“Indications of an Explosion,” March 28, 1919, Private Memorandum, Lansing Papers, LC.
172.MacMillan,
173.“Mantoux’s Notes of a British–French–Italian Meeting,” April 21, 1919,
174.Colin Dueck,
175.John Milton Cooper,
176.Edward House, diary entry, January 1, 1919, EHP; Cooper,
177.“Review of the Present Condition of the Peace Conference,” January 22, 1919, Private Memorandum, Lansing Papers, LC.
178.“Great Britain’s World Responsibility,”
179.Mackinder,
180.Mackinder,
181.Mackinder,
182.Mackinder,
183.Mackinder,
184.Mackinder,
185.B. W. Blouet, “Sir Halford Mackinder as High Commissioner to South Russia, 1919–1920,”
186.“Report on the Situation in South Russia by Sir H. Mackinder, MP,” January 1920, CAB 24/97/17, TNA; Mackinder to Curzon, November 21, 1919, FO-800-251, TNA.
187.Halford J. Mackinder, “Notes of Points, Supplementary to His Memorandum of January 21, 1920,” January 29, 1920, FO-800-251, TNA.
188.“Report on the Situation in South Russia”; “Notes of Points.”
189.“Report on the Situation in South Russia.”
190.“Report on the Situation in South Russia”; “Notes of Points.”
191.Curzon to Keyes, February 9, 1920,
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