The Paris Peace Conference, Part I
Norman Bentwich recalls the official meetings in Paris of 1946, which were concerned with the future of Germany’s former allies in Europe. At these protracted sessions the conflict between the Soviet Union and the Western Powers gradually came into the open.
The peace conference in paris 1946 is almost forgotten. It cannot compare in importance with the Peace Conference of 1919 in the French capital which refolded the map of Europe. Yet it has historical significance, because, during its protracted sessions, the conflict between the Allied Great Powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, Great Britain and France, came into the open, and the Cold War, if not proclaimed, was none the less being waged. This article, which is based on the record made at the time by an observer at the Conference, indicates the origin of that conflict in the discussion of the terms of peace with the minor enemies.
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