Diplomatic Negotiation

This monograph was defended and published as a dissertation on 4 November 2014.
Cover: Picture of the secret final negotiations on the German First World War reparations in the room
of British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in the Hôtel Beau-Rivage (Lausanne, 1932), taken
by Dr. Erich Salomon (Berlin 1886–Auschwitz 1944), inventor of the ‘candid camera’. French Prime
Minister Briand called him ‘le roi des indiscrets’.
Cover photo: bpk Photo Agency / Erich Salomon; source: De Vries and Hunter, 1963
Language editor: Rebecca Solheim
Index: Sander des Tombe
Layout: Textcetera, The Hague
Print: Gildeprint, Enschede
ISBN 978-94-610-8781-2
NUR 805
Copyright: P.W. Meerts / Clingendael Institute, The Hague / 1 st edition 2014, 2 nd slightly revised
edition, 2015
pmeerts@clingendael.nl
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