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Curzon's comeuppance

Posted by: Professor Jonathan Conlin, Posted on: 25 November 2022 - Categories: Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
Cartoon of Curzon and Ismet

Professor Jonathan Conlin of The Lausanne Project explains how that "most superior person" (as he was described by contemporaries at Oxford) met his match at Lausanne 100 years ago. Of all the treaties negotiated in the wake of World War 1, …

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