If Only Leaders Meeting in Paris Could Agree on WWI’s Lessons
- Russia, Turkey, U.S. bring opposite experiences of war’s end
- Versailles settlement shows need for more ‘realism’ today
A little girl has her hand shaken by an American soldier on the streets of London on Aug. 15, 1917.
Photographer: A.R. Coster/Hulton Archive via Getty Images
French President Emmanuel Macron hosts leaders from around the globe this weekend to commemorate the end of World War I, an effort to unite them against the kind of nationalism that drove the conflict a century ago and which appears to be gaining strength again.
That task might be easier if the 69 countries expected could agree on what the 1918 armistice meant.