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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 258 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=15mm, Gew.=381gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Mehr…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 258 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=15mm, Gew.=381gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VIII THE TREATY OF PEACE Long ere the delegates to the Peace Conference began to assemble at Paris, in December, 1918, the magnitude of the work they must perform, and the difficulties they must overcome, before even a preliminary treaty of peace could be framed, were quite apparent. More than one of the nations that fought Germany and her allies were already preparing to lodge claims more in accord with their national ambitions than with the fourteen points that were to be made the basis of peace. Belgium was looking forward to the restoration of Luxemburg, and to obtaining a part of Lemburg and the left bank of the Scheldt. Alsace-Lorraine was, of course, to go to France, but she would also demand a surrender of the Saar coal fields. Denmark, it was understood, would insist on a return of Northern and Central Schleswig. Poland must be free, but how to draw her frontiers, and how to give her, in the words of President Wilson, an assured "direct outlet to the great highways of the sea," would be most difficult to determine. Such an outlet was down the valley of the Vistula to Danzig. But Danzig was a German town, and could a settlement which cut communication between East and West Prussia last long ? What was to become of Russia, of Turkey, of German Austria, of the late Emperor, of the German Colonies, and what restitution and reparation Germany must make, were but a few of the problems awaiting solution by the Peace Conference. Towards the close of January, 1919, the Conference settled down to the work before it, and immediately took up the case of Russia, adopted a proposal of President Wilson to summonrepresentatives of the many groups or governments in Russia to a conference at Prinkipo; decided to send a civil and military commission to Poland; appointed a n...<

ISBN: 0217141080

ISBN: 0217141080