We risk being seen as a generation of sleepwalkers

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LAST week saw the 100th anniversary of the day leaders of the Great Powers assembled in the Hall of Mirrors within the Palace of Versailles. German representatives were summonsed to sign the peace treaty ending the First World War, the Treaty of the Versailles. The armistice had been signed on November 11, 1918 and peace treaty talks started on January 19, 1919. On one level, what the delegates achieved in six months is quite remarkable.