The Peace Negotiations: A Personal NarrativeLansing, Robert
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The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative
Lansing, Robert
League of Nations; Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920); Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
American programme, lack of definite, as subject of disagreement;
Fourteen Points announced; not worked out; insufficiency of Fourteen
Points; Lansing's memorandum on territorial settlements; effect of
President's attendance at Conference; embarrassment to delegates of
lack; _projet_ of treaty prepared for Lansing; President resents it;
no system or team-work in American Commission; reason for President's
attitude; no instructions during President's absence; results of
lack; and Preliminary Treaty; influence of lack on Wilson's
leadership; text of Fourteen Points.
Annunzio, Gabriele d', at Fiume.
Arabia, disposition. _See also_ Near East.
Arbitral Tribunal, in Lansing's plan.
Arbitration, as form of peace promotion; in Lansing's plan; in Wilson's
original draft; in Cecil plan; in Treaty. _See also_ Diplomatic
adjustment; Judicial settlement.
Armenia, mandate for; protectorate. _See also_ Near East.
Armistice, American conference on.
Article X. _See_ Affirmative guaranty.
Assembly (Body of Delegates), in Wilson's original draft; analogous body
in Cecil plan; in Treaty.
Auchincloss, Gordon, and drafting of League.
Austria, Archduchy and union with Germany, outlet to sea.
Austria-Hungary, dissolution; Fourteen Points on subject people.
Azerbaidjan, Wilson and.
Baker, Ray Stannard, and Shantung.
Balance of power, Clemenceau advocates; Wilson denounces; and Cecil
plan; League and. _See also_ Affirmative guaranty; Equality of
nations.
Balfour, Arthur, signs French alliance.
Balkans, Fourteen Points on. _See also_ states by names.
Belgium, and Anglo-Franco-American alliance, full sovereignty,
Bessarabia disposition,
Bliss, Tasker H. American delegate, opposes affirmative guaranty, and
Covenant as reported, and proposed French alliance, and Shantung,
letter to President, _See also_ American Commission; American
programme.
Body of Delegates. _See_ Assembly.
Boers, and self-determination,
Bohemia, disposition,
Bolshevism, peace as check to spread,
Bosnia, disposition,
Boundaries, principles in drawing,
Bowman, Isaiah, Commission of Inquiry
Brest-Litovsk Treaty, to be abrogated,
Bucharest Treaty, to be abrogated,
Buffer state on the Rhine,
Bulgaria, boundaries,
Bullitt, William C., on revision of Covenant, testimony on Lansing
interview, Lansing's telegram to President on testimony, no reply
received, and Wilson's western speeches,
Canada, Papineau Rebellion and self-determination,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Cecil, Lord Robert, plan for League, Wilson opposes it, text of plan,
Central Powers, Wilson and need of defeat, hope in Wilson's attitude,
peace or Bolshevism, _See also_ Mandates, and states by name.
China. _See_ Shantung.
Chinda, Viscount, and Shantung,
Civil War, and self-determination,
Clemenceau, Georges, Supreme War Council, advocates balance of power,
and Cecil plan, and Franco-American alliance, _See also_ Council of
Four.
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