Departure of President from Paris for United States February 14, 1919 President lands at Boston February 24, 1919 Departure of President from New York for France March 5, 1919 President arrives in Paris March 14, 1919 Organization of Council of Four About March 24, 1919 President's public statement in regard to Fiume April 23, 1919 Adoption of Commission's Report on League of Nations by the Conference April 28, 1919 The Shantung Settlement April 30, 1919 Delivery of the Peace Treaty to the German Plenipotentiaries May 7, 1919 Signing of Treaty of Versailles June 28, 1919 Signing of Treaty of Assistance with France June 28, 1919 Departure of President for the United States June 28, 1919 Departure of Mr. Lansing from Paris for United States July 12, 1919 Hearing of Mr. Lansing before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations August 6, 1919 Conference of Senate Committee on Foreign Relations with the President at the White House August 19, 1919 Hearing of Mr. Bullitt before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations September 12, 1919 Return of President to Washington from tour of West September 28, 1919 Resignation of Mr. Lansing as Secretary of State February 13, 1920 CHAPTER I REASONS FOR WRITING A PERSONAL NARRATIVE "While we were still in Paris, I felt, and have felt increasingly ever since, that you accepted my guidance and direction on questions with regard to which I had to instruct you only with increasing reluctance.... "... I must say that it would relieve me of embarrassment, Mr. Secretary, the embarrassment of feeling your reluctance and divergence of judgment, if you would give your present office up and afford me an opportunity to select some one whose mind would more willingly go along with mine." These words are taken from the letter which President Wilson wrote to me on February 11, 1920. On the following day I tendered my resignation as Secretary of State by a letter, in which I said: