ROBERT WILLIAM SETON-WATSON
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In a private capacity he attended and participated in the WWI Paris Peace Conference as an advisor to “subject people”. As he was an advocate for colonial subject people, he was very unpopular with most of the delegates to the conference. He, however, was very critical of their narrow-mindedness, their racism, and narrowness of view based on the short term interests of their countries.
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Robert William Seton-Watson FBA FRHistS, commonly referred to as R. W. Seton-Watson and also known by the pseudonym Scotus Viator, was a British political activist and historian who played an active role in encouraging the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the emergence of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia during and after World War I.
