The Paris Peace Conference: everything you wanted to know
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The Middle East, the Arabs and the British Mandate
There were significant independence movements in germany's former african colonies, which are parcelled up and mostly go to the british and french. There was strong arab opposition to unrestricted jewish immigration into palestine. So you can argue that the decisions taken at san rimo don't really reflect very much what the peace conference's own attempt to sound out local opinion had. But how far does soviet russia cast a shadow over the paris peace conference?
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