Near the end of April 1919 members of the Belgian delegation appeared--uninvited--in Woodrow Wilson's study, complaining that they would not sign the treaty as it was currently written. They argued that of all the allies Belgium had suffered the greatest material loses at the hands of the Germans. Did they have a legitimate complaint? Why did their protest go largely unheeded?

Near the end of April 1919 members of the Belgian delegation appeared--uninvited--in Woodrow Wilson's study, complaining that they would not sign the treaty as it was currently written. They argued that of all the allies Belgium had suffered the greatest material loses at the hands of the Germans. Did they have a legitimate complaint? Why did their protest go largely unheeded?