Margaret MacMillan, a Canadian historian whose masterly evocation of the Paris peacemakers of 1919 has been a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic since it was published in 2001, has now done fitting justice to another great diplomatic episode.

• 2001年以回顾1919年巴黎和会体系为主体的鸿篇巨制在大西洋两岸名盛一时的加拿大历史学家马格丽特麦克米兰，现在要对这又一幕宏大的外交篇章作出公允的评判了。