Word: lightest
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...possibly equal the Allied and Associated blunders of peace. The Nation which wrecked a continent and endangered civilization has been handled gently. As the attention of the Allies, France excepted, turned from clinching victory to solving domestic difficulties the treaty turned from steel to gelatine, yielding at the lightest touch of a Prussian finger. There were some stern remonstrances, some fierce threats. But in the end there has not been much but talk, and precious moments when peace and righteous vengeance might have been insured have been lost...