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
Interparliamentary Congress, in Cecil plan,
Inviolability of League property,
Irish, and self-determination,
Isolation, policy, and affirmative guaranty, and mandates, and French
alliance,
Italy, and Cecil plan, territory, _See also_ Fiume; Great Powers.
Japan, and Cecil plan, in Council of Ten, _See also_ Great Powers;
Shantung.
Judicial settlement of international disputes, Lansing's plan,
subordinated in Wilson's draft, Lansing on diplomatic adjustment and,
Lansing urges as nucleus of League, in Lansing's resolution of
principles, Lansing's appeal for, in Covenant, arbitrators of
litigant nations, difficulties in procedure, cost, elimination from
Covenant of appeal from arbitral awards, how effected, Lansing's
appeal ignored, in Cecil plan, _See also_ Arbitration; Diplomatic
adjustment.
Jugo-Slavia, and Anglo-Franco-American alliance, port, erected, _See
also_ Fiume.
Kato, Baron, and Shantung,
Kiao-Chau. _See_ Shantung.
Kiel Canal, internationalization,
Koo, V.K. Wellington, argument on Shantung,
Labor article, in Wilson's original draft, in Treaty,
Lansing, Robert, resignation asked and given, divergence of judgment
from President, reasons for retaining office, reasons for narrative,
imputation of faithlessness, personal narrative, subjects of
disagreement, attitude toward duty as negotiator, policy as to advice
to President, President's attitude towards opinions, method of
treatment of subject, conference on armistice terms, selected as a
negotiator, opposition to President being a delegate, President's
attitude toward this opposition, and Commission of Inquiry, arrival
in Paris, and balance of power, and paramount need of speedy peace,
opposition to mandates, opposition to French alliance treaty, signs
it, personal relations with President, memorandum on American
programme (1918), has _projet_ of treaty prepared, Wilson resents it,
on lack of organization in American Commission, and lack of
programme, and American Commission during President's absence, on
Wilson's _modus vivendi_ idea, opposition to secret diplomacy, effect
on Wilson, and Fiume, and Shantung, Bullitt affair, views on Treaty
when presented to Germans, and ratification of Treaty _See also_
American Commission; League; Wilson.
Latvia Wilson and autonomy
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