Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad
-- SEPTEMBER 1, 1939, by W.H. AUDEN
When the German delegation of 180 diplomats and technicians went to Versailles in 1919 to negotiate a peace treaty ending World War I, the French forced their train to creep along at 10 m.p.h. so that the Germans would get a vivid sense of the devastation their armies had wrought. In Versailles's Hall of Mirrors, Premier Georges Clemenceau had ominous words for them: "The hour has struck for the weighty settlement of our account."
That account dated...
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