Created back in the wake of the depression by roosevelt in order to help make Home Ownership more widely available. After words airs sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous after words programs at booktv. Org. Columbia University Professor Susan Pedersen is next on booktv. She recalls the paris peace be conference after world war i and the creation of the league of nations. The great war had been a war of empires, and to the victorious allied powers, it seemed as if militaristic and aggressive empires had been defeated while the oppressive empire, the russians, had fallen by the wayside in the throes of revolt. It seemed as if the good empires who thought of themselves as having reluctantly acquired their possessions and had administered these for the good of their peoples had triumphed. Now it was left to the victors to clean up the mess, so to speak. President wilson had stressed the selfdetermination of nations as one of his 14 points, but this idea came up against dem
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