Churchill’s vivid scientific imagination contrasted with the complacement peacemakers at Paris, who could have benefited from his less hopeful visions of the future. Detail from “The Signing of the Peace in the Hall of Mirrors” by Sir William Orpen (1878-1931). Seated L-R: Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, David Loyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, Arthur Balfour. The jurist Johannes Bell is signing for Germany, with German Foreign Minister Hermann Müller leaning over him. (Imperial War Museum, public domain)