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‘The peace of Versailies lacked moral validity from the start.’ Critically evaluate.

  • UPSC 2011
  • World Wars

The charge of lacking moral validity is a distinct one from mere harshness or impracticality — it asks whether the process and principles behind Versailles were themselves ethically defensible, or whether the settlement was, from its very inception, a hypocritical betrayal of the ideals it claimed to embody.

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