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ence was to send 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
were disputing over territory in diff
ferent sections OF Europe we're 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
OF league OF nations and a commit
tee was appointed to draw up a cove
nant. By January 80 the conference
had adopted the plan OF governing
colonies and backward nations
through mandatories issued to var
ious nations, subject to the direction
and approval OF the league of ma
tlons.
The covenant of the league OF ma
tlons 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 13. In his absence the coun-
ell OF ten had continued it's work
despite an attempt to assassinate
Premier Clemenceau.
A report of the international labor
legislation committee was adopted
April IL. Reparation demands to
be made on Germany were approved
April IA and the Germans were in
vited on April 16 to send their dele
cation 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 Aus
trian city of Fiume but on April 23
President Wilson gave out a state
ment that Fiume could not be given
to Italy. On the next day premier
Orlando returned to Rome and for
more than a week thereafter the
Italian delegates we're absent but re-
turned on May in time to partici-
pate in the conference with the Ger
man delegates.
A revised covenant of the league
OF nations intended to conform in re-
spect to the Monroe Doctrine to OBJ
Jections raised in America was
adopted by the peace conference on
April 2S. Geneva was selected as
the seat OF the league.
Shantung was disposed of on April
30 when the council OF three voted
to turn 1t over to the Japanese on
assurances that 1t would be given
later to the Chinese.
The Germans. headed by Count
BrockdorffIRa arrived in ver-
sailles and presented their creden-
tials to the allied delegates on MAY 1.
The peace treaty was presented to
the Germans at Versailles on May 7,
the anniversary of the sinking of the
Llisitania. and an official summary
OF the treaty was made public that
day. 1t was also announced that the
United States and Great Britain had
pledged aid to France against pos
sible future German aggression. The
manner in which the Germans re-
ceived the treaty was described as
insolent. Numerous German leaders
declared they would not sign it and
week of mourning was decreed by
the German government but the de-
cree was virtually unheeded.
Thereafter the German delegates
submitted various notes to the coun-
Gil of four asking for concessions or
critlcising the terms proposed in the
treaty as submitted to them. On
May 16 1t was announced that the
German treaty would become effec-
tive when ratified by Germany and
three of the allied or associated pow
ers.
The German reply to the first
form of the peace treaty was pre-
sented to the allied delegates on
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