Is your point that they shouldn’t have tried to draw the boundaries at all or that they drew the wrong ones? It is remarkable that the way to bring world peace in 1919 was so different to that in 1957 (if that was when the Treaty of Rome was signed!). If Germany really had been given, within the bounds of practicality, all the German-speaking regions that wanted to be a part of the Reich, and if the Great Depression had been avoided, perhaps it might have worked better than it did.
I also wanted to speak up for Paul Marks, from whom I nearly always learned something.
Is your point that they shouldn’t have tried to draw the boundaries at all or that they drew the wrong ones? It is remarkable that the way to bring world peace in 1919 was so different to that in 1957 (if that was when the Treaty of Rome was signed!). If Germany really had been given, within the bounds of practicality, all the German-speaking regions that wanted to be a part of the Reich, and if the Great Depression had been avoided, perhaps it might have worked better than it did.
I also wanted to speak up for Paul Marks, from whom I nearly always learned something.