All the subsequent misfortunes of Europe did not stem from the Treaty of Versailles, as it became fashionable for a while to maintain, but Versailles was only the first of the postwar settlements (the last one, the Treaty of Lausanne, was not signed until July 1923) and apart from the formal diplomatic instruments there were the day-to-day administrative or strategic decisions, sometimes irreparable ones, taken by the Allied representatives in Paris, sitting as a kind of soviet of victors.
