It appears to me that the Entente has conquered too much, too thoroughly.

The madness of expiring militarism, in spite of all its orgies, has perhaps celebrated its last triumph at Versailles.
Postscript.
Taking it altogether, the real historical truth concerning the peace movement is that, in general, neither the Entente nor the ruling, all-powerful military party in Germany wished for a peace of understanding.

They both wished to be victorious and to enforce a peace of violence on the defeated adversary.

The leading men in Germany--Ludendorff above all--never had a genuine intention of releasing Belgium in an economic and political sense; neither would they agree to any sacrifices.

They wished to conquer in the East and the West, and their arbitrary tendencies counteracted the pacifist leaning of the Entente as soon as there were the slightest indications of it.