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    Memoirs

    Suitors and Suppliants: The Little Nations at Versailles

    by Bonsal, Stephen

    Col. Bonsal’s confidential notes & diary, published with the encouragement of Pres. Wilson, depict the hopeless complexities of making peace among the small nations previously absorbed in the three former European empires at the end of World War I.

    This book has 149 chapters featured on this site, containing a total of 113,702 words.


    1. Introduction
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    2. Preface
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    1. Troyon, October 8, 1918
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    2. October 18, 1918
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    3. Paris, October 20, 1918
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    10. November 12, 1918
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    1. Paris, January 6, 1919
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    2. February — undated, 1919
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    7. April 20, 1919
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    1. Paris, January 21, 1919
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    3. New York, May 30, 1919
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    1. Appendix A: Points, Principles, Particulars, and Ends
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    2. Appendix B: Principal Delegates to the Peace Conference
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    3. Appendix C: Glossary of Names
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