Review: Commission Nationale pour la publication de documents diplomatiques Suisses, Documents diplomatiques Suisses 1848-1945, Volume. 7 (1918-1920), part 1 (November 11, 1918 to June 28, 1919). Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1979. LXXVIII and 964 pp.

Authors

Heinz K. Meier

Keywords

Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, diplomatic history

Abstract

This is the first in a projected series of sixteen volumes of documents designed to illuminate the diplomatic history of Switzerland from the founding of the modern Swiss state in 1848 to the end of World War II, a scholarly enterprise of major proportions. The apparatus behind the enterprise is an elaborate and intricate one. A National Commission for the Publication of Swiss Diplomatic Documents (DDS), under the presidency of Jacques Freymond from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, comprising historians from every university of the country and representatives of the Swiss .Federal Archives, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Swiss Historical Association, supervises and guides the enterprise. The history departments of the Swiss universities have been given the task of preparing individual volumes, covering the different timespans, for publication. The DDS thus will be a product of cooperation among all important segments of the historical profession in Switzerland.

Recommended Citation

Meier, Heinz K. (1981) "Review: Commission Nationale pour la publication de documents diplomatiques Suisses, Documents diplomatiques Suisses 1848-1945, Volume. 7 (1918-1920), part 1 (November 11, 1918 to June 28, 1919). Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1979. LXXVIII and 964 pp.," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 17: Iss. 3, Article 11.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol17/iss3/11