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The Heavenly Twins was the name assigned to two British delegates, the Judge Lord Sumner and the Banker Lord Cunliffe, during the 1919 Treaty of Versailles negotiations that were to set the terms of the peace to be imposed on Germany following the end of World War I. The two lords, together with the Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes, were responsible for presenting the British and British Dominions' case concerning the amount of compensatory payments, or war reparations, that were to be extracted from Germany.〔 〕 ==Origin of the name the "Heavenly Twins"== There are mixed views on how the handle was coined. For Milo Keynes 〔 〕 the phrase was first used by the American diplomat Norman Davis. While for historian Antony Lentin 〔 the phrase arose among younger members of the British delegation. There were three principal reasons: the "astronomically" 〔The classical reference, more obvious in 1919 than today, was to the Dioscuri, twin brothers who are linked with paried stars Castor and Pollux of the constellation Gemini.〕 large sums the Twins thought should be extracted from Germany, the "beatific smile" they would sometimes both adopt after rendering a judgement in situations where they had the upper hand in a debate, and the fact they were generally inseparable at Versailles - both at work and while enjoying the Paris nightlife. Additionally, Britons in 1919 would have been well aware of Sarah Grand's New Woman novel The Heavenly Twins, a much talked-about bestseller in 1893. 〔 〔 〕 〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heavenly Twins (Sumner and Cunliffe)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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