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The Paris Peace Conference has been the
subject of voluminous historical and rhetorical study. (2) Further, there
are many sources that contain information about Colonel House's activities
in the absence of President Wilson at the conference . These include collections
of original documents, such as The Intimate Papers of Colonel House
(1928) edited by Charles Seymour and The Papers of Woodrow Wilson
(1966-92) edited by Arthur Link, recollections/memoirs,
such as Robert Lansing's The Peace Negotiations, a Personal Narrative
(1921) and Ferdinand Czernin's Versailles 1919 (1964) and scholarly
works, such as Wilson and His Peace Makers (1986) by Arthur Walworth
and The Versailles Settlement (1991) by Alan Sharp. There is also
an enormous popular press devoted to the history of the peace conference,
such as Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace (1944) by Thomas Bailey
and Mr. House of Texas (1940) by Arthur Howden.
For this particular paper, the major works
consulted were Wilson and His Peacemakers (1986) by Arthur Walworth,
which covered the major events of the conference while Wilson was in America.
This work was particularly helpful in establishing the chronological order
of events at the conference. The Versailles Settlement Peacemaking in
Paris, 1919 (1991) by Alan Sharp gave a broader picture of the conference
and helped to understand "The German Settlement." Sharp provided a background
introduction on the "Rhineland" and gave a history of the issue.
Collections of original document sources
used were The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1966-92), edited by Arthur
Link, which contained diary notes and the correspondence of President Wilson
and included some excerpts from House's diary. The Intimate Papers of
Colonel House (1928), edited by Charles Seymour, provided a first hand
view of Houses perspective.
For background information, the following
books were valuable. Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace (1944), by
Thomas Bailey, covered the period of what happened while Wilson was absent.
Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House (1956), by Alexander and Juliette
George, gave an understanding of House and Wilson's relationship. Finally,
Mr. House of Texas (1940), by Arthur Howden, was a biography of
House which contributed to an understanding of House's own behavior at
the conference.
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