I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
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The Versailles Dictate cannot be an eternal document, because not only its economic, but also its spiritual and moral premises are wrong.
We have three properties where we actually tore down the clubhouses and built new ones. At the one at Versailles on the Lakes in Oakbrook Terrace we even have a home theater room. We put in the latest exercise equipment and a demonstration kitchen, where we have classes.
It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
With Versailles (the treaty) in 1919, we viewed the Arabs as largely tribal, bedouin, backward. They couldn't govern themselves... the French, British, provided the stable government that allowed commercial transactions.... As a consequence of our lack of confidence in them, we've communicated that democracy is a vital, difficult option for everyone but them.