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Excerpt from From Bismarck to Adenauer, Aspects of German Statecraft W H E N President Woodrow Wilson went to the Peace Conference in 1919, he was given a copy of a study of the Congress of Vienna, prepared specially for the Paris meet ings by the English historian C. K. Webster. Mr. Wilson refused to read it, on the grounds that neither he nor anyone else dealing with the revolutionary problems created by the First World War had anything to learn from the diplomacy of the previous century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.