Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII

4. The United States reserves to itself exclusively the right to decide what questions are within its domestic jurisdiction and declares that all domestic and political question...

Rejection of the Peace Treaty 264 The Reservations Which Failed 269 Peace by Congressional Enactment Fails 271 The Map of Europe Remade 279 Our Part in Winning the War 280

In addition to the transatlantic fleet there was an American cross-channel fleet carrying men and cargo from England to France. This fleet consisted of more than a third of a mi...

=ARTICLE 280.=--The obligations imposed on Germany by Chapter I. and by Articles 271 and 272 of Chapter II. above shall cease to have effect five years from the date of the comi...

(b) Amounts due to Germany in respect of transfers under Part IX. (financial clauses), Part XII. (ports, waterways, and railways), and Section IV. (Sarre Basin) of Part III. (po...

The boundaries of Poland not laid down in the present treaty will be subsequently determined by the principal Allied and Associated Powers. A commission consisting of seven memb...

The high contracting parties, in order to promote international coöperation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war...

=ARTICLE 180.=--All fortified works, fortresses, and field works situated in German territory to the west of a line drawn fifty kilometers to the east of the Rhine shall be disa...

=ARTICLE 434.=--Germany undertakes to recognize the full force of the treaties of peace and additional conventions which may be concluded by the Allied and Associated Powers wit...

=ARTICLE 118.=--In territory outside her European frontiers as fixed by the present treaty, Germany renounces all rights, titles, and privileges whatever in or over territory wh...

=ARTICLE 400.=--The agenda of all meetings of the conference will be settled by the governing body, who shall consider any suggestion as to the agenda that may be made by the Go...

the expression "outbreak of war" of the expression "11th November, 1918," and for the expression "duration of the war" of the expression "period from the 11th November, 1918, to...

over in accordance with Article 7 of the armistice agreement of the 11th November, 1918, Article 3 of the armistice agreement of the 16th January, 1919, as well as of any other...

The Elbe (Labe) from its confluence with the Vitava (Moldau) and the Vitava (Moldau) from Prague; the Oder (Odra) from its confluence with the Oppa; the Niemen (Russtrom-Memel-N...

=ARTICLE 31.=--Germany, recognizing that the treaties of April 19, 1839, which established the status of Belgium before the war, no longer conform to the requirements of the sit...

34. At the termination of a period of fifteen years from the coming into force of the present treaty, the population of the territory of the Sarre Basin will be called upon to i...

=ARTICLES 354.=--As from the coming into force of the present treaty, the Convention of Mannheim of 17th October, 1868, together with the Final Protocol thereof, shall continue...

16. The government of the territory of the Sarre Basin shall be intrusted to a commission representing the League of Nations. This commission shall sit in the territory of the S...

=ARTICLE 231.=--The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts, the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the...

1. With Belgium: From the point common to the three frontiers of Belgium, Holland, and Germany, and in a southerly direction; the northeastern boundary of the former territory o...

The original members of the League of Nations shall be the original members of this organization, and hereafter membership of the League of Nations shall carry with it membershi...

=ARTICLE 264.=--Germany undertakes that goods the produce or manufacture of any one of the Allied or Associated States imported into German territory, from whatsoever place arri...

treaty, for a period of five years from the coming into force of the present treaty, natural or manufactured products originating in and coming from the territories referred to...

=ARTICLE 164.=--Up till the time at which Germany is admitted as a member of the League of Nations the German Army must not possess an armament greater than the amounts fixed in...

=ARTICLE 214.=--The repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians shall take place as soon as possible after the coming into force of the present treaty and shall be c...

6. No tariff shall be established on the German railways and canals which may directly or indirectly discriminate to the prejudice of the transport of the personnel or products...

Arrangements for the convening and the organization of the first meeting of the Conference will be made by the Government designated for the purpose in the said Annex. That Gove...

2. As a temporary measure, for the transportation of supplies for certain regions, as well as for the restoration, as rapidly as possible, of the normal conditions of transport,...

=ARTICLE 321.=--Germany undertakes to grant freedom of transit through her territories on the routes most convenient for international transit, either by rail, navigable waterwa...

The number of men discharged for any reason before the expiration of their term of enlistment must not exceed in any year 5 per cent. of the total effectives as fixed by the sec...

=ARTICLE 365.=--Goods coming from the territories of the Allied and Associated Powers, and going to Germany, or in transit through Germany from or to the territories of the Alli...

=ARTICLE 428.=--As a guarantee for the execution of the present treaty by Germany, the German territory situated to the west of the Rhine, together with the bridgeheads, will be...

=ARTICLE 160=--1. By a date which must not be later than March 31, 1920, the German Army must not comprise more than seven divisions of infantry and three divisions of cavalry....

1. From the date of the coming into force of the present treaty, all the deposits of coal situated within the Sarre Basin, as defined in Article 48 of the said treaty, become th...

A special convention between France and Germany, which shall be submitted to the approval of the Central Rhine Commission, will fix the details of this organization, particularl...

=ARTICLE 328.=--The free zones existing in German ports on the 1st August, 1914, shall be maintained. These free zones and any other free zones which may be established in Germa...

=ARTICLE 313.=--The aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall have full liberty of passage and landing over and in the territory and territorial waters of Germany, and...

A special tribunal will be constituted to try the accused, thereby assuring him the guarantees essential to the right of defense. It will be composed of five judges, one appoint...

=ARTICLE 248.=--Subject to such exceptions as the Reparation Commission may approve, a first charge upon all the assets and revenues of the German Empire and its constituent Sta...

(a) not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers to any prohibition in regard to the exercise of occupations, professions, trade, and industry, which shall n...

=ARTICLE 371.=--Subject to any special provisions concerning the cession of ports, waterways and railways situated in the territories over which Germany abandons her sovereignty...

=ARTICLE 327.=--The nationals of any of the Allied and Associated Powers as well as their vessels and property shall enjoy in all German ports and in the inland navigation route...

=ARTICLE 271.=--As regards sea fishing, maritime coasting trade, and maritime towage, vessels of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy, in German territorial waters, the...

And whereas conditions of labor exist involving such injustice, hardship, and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of th...

=ARTICLE 274.=--Germany undertakes to adopt all the necessary legislative and administrative measures to protect goods the produce or manufacture of any one of the Allied and As...

=ARTICLE 372.=--When as a result of the fixing of new frontiers a railway connection between two parts of the same country crosses another country, or a branch line from one cou...

=ARTICLE 421.=--The members engage to apply conventions which they have ratified in accordance with the provisions of this part of the present treaty to their colonies, protecto...

damages caused to the civil populations of the Allied and Associated countries in the form of lines, the inhabitants of the territories referred to in Article 51 shall be assimi...

=ARTICLE 363.=--In the ports of Hamburg and Stettin, Germany shall lease to the Czechoslovak State, for a period of ninety-nine years, areas which shall be placed under the gene...

(1) of their inclusion in goods trains on the lines such of the Allied and Associated Powers as are parties to the Berne Convention of May 15, 1886, as modified on May 18, 1907,...

I. Economic Results of the War 1 II. Wartime Food and Price Problems 34 III. Industry and Labor in Wartime 65 IV. Government Control 87 V. The Money Cost of the War, Edwin R. A....

I. The Peace Conference at Work, Thomas W. Lamont 149 II. Wilson's Fourteen Points 163 III. How the Peace Treaty Was Signed 165 IV. The Peace Treaty--Its Meaning to America, Geo...

In order to render possible the initiation of a general limitation of the armaments of all nations, Germany undertakes strictly to observe the military, naval, and air clauses w...