18 January, 1919 - 94 years ago today - delegates gather in the Salle de Horloge, French Foreign Ministry, Quai d'Orsay, Paris, for the commencement of the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Versailles, perceptively described by the 1920s comic historians of England, Sellar and Yeatman, as the "Peace to end Peace".  At least some people saw where this would lead ... JR.

The Beginning of the End of the Beginning ...

English girl, whose house was destroyed in a German air raid, being lead away down  the street. 


Bombed out

Image of Ethiopia after the Italian conquest. A staged propaganda image, but very very nice and effective. 
"Faccetta nera, bella abissina..." was the name of a famous Italian song of the time. DVX