The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-24
A BIT OF HISTORY

from thirty-tWo Allied countries anu
Germany participated. The five lead
ing nations, the United States, Great
Britain, France, Italy and japan
were represented in the peace con-
ferences at Paris by five delegates
each while the delegations of other
nations and British dominions were
composed of from one to three men.
The representatives of the United
States were President Wilson; Sc
cretary of State Robert Lansing;
Henry White, formerly American
Ambassador at Rome and Paris
Colonel Edward NJ House and Cen
eral flasher H. Bliss Georges Clemen
caeu, Premier of France, was chair
man of the Peace Conference.
At first a Supreme Council or
! Council Of Ten was organized as
Ito include two representatives each
| from Great Britain, France the
! United States, Italy and Japan. Sub
sequently this council was divided in
| two parts-a Council of Four, COM
posed of President Wilson and Pre-
miers Lloyd George, Clemencaeu and
Orlando; and Council of Foreign
Ministers.
The Conference of the Allied De-
legations convened officially on jan
uary Is to draw up the terms to be
submitted when completed to the
German Delegation. President Wilson
had arrived in France on Deem
Der 10 and had visited England, Italy
and parts of France.
One Of the first acts of the Con
ference was to send a proposal to all
Russian factions to meet on the
Princes Islands to endeavor to COM
pose the Russian internal situation
but this plan was rejected by the
Russians. Various factions which
We're disputing over territory in diff
ferent sections of Europe were di-
rected by the Peace Conference to
discontinue their conflicts.
The first step toward the actual
drafting of the Treaty occurred on
January "a when the Conference
agreed to the plan for organization
CT a League of Nations and a COM
mittee was appointed to draw up
covenant By January 30 the Con-
ference had adopted the plan of
governing colonies and backward ma
tions through manufactures issued to
various nations, subject to the direc-
tion approval of the League of Ma
tions.
The covenant of the League of Ma
tons was completed on February IA.
On the following day President Will
son left France for the United States
He returned to France arriving there
March 10. In his absence the Council
of Ten had continued the work de-
spite an attempt to assissinate Pre-
mier Clemenceau
A report of the International
Labor Legislation Committee was
adopted April II. Reparation de-
mands to be made on Germany
were approved April Ia and the
Germans were invited on April 16
to send their delegation to Versailles
to receive the Treaty.
The Peace Conference next con-
sidered the treaty with Austria The
Italian Delegation insisted upon OBJ
tanning control of the formerly
Austrian city of Fiume but on April
90 President Wilson gave out a
statement that Fiume could not be
given to Italy On the next day Pre-
miner Orlando returned home and
for more than a week thereafter
the Italian Delegates were absent
but returned on May in time to
participate in the conference with
the German Delegates.
A revised covenant of the League
of Nations intended to conform in re-
spect to the Monroe Doctrine to OBJ
lection raised in America was adopt
ed by the Peace Conference on April
2S. Geneva was selected as the seat