Framing and Presentation of Armistice Terms.

Above is shown the framing of the armistice terms by the Interallied Conference at Versailles, France.

Left side of table, from left to right: Second man, General di Robilant, Italian Foreign Minister Sonnino, Italian Premier Orlando, Colonel E. M. House, General Tasker H. Bliss, next, but one, Greek Premier Venizelos, and Serbian Minister Vesnitch.

At the right: Vice Admiral Wemyss, General Sir Henry Wilson, Field Marshal Haig, General Sackville West, Andrew Bonar Law, British Premier Lloyd George, French Premier Clemenceau, and French Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon.

No gathering of plenipotentiaries for a century past has been fraught with such importance.

This drawing of the first meeting of the German armistice delegates with Marshal Foch and allied associates in the Marshal's railroad car at Rethondes, France, was made by an artist especially assigned by the French Government for that purpose.

The allied representatives are (1) Marshal Foch, (2) British Admiral Wemyss, (3) an American delegate, probably General Rhodes, (4) French General Maxime Weygand.

The German delegates are (5) Mathias Erzberger, (6) General von Guendell (7) General von Winterfeld, and (8) Count von Oberndorff.

Marshal Foch read the terms in a loud, clear voice. Conference followed, and the terms were signed Nov. 11, 1918.

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The war of the nations: portfolio in rotogravure etchings: compiled from the Mid-week pictorial. New York: New York Times, Co, 1919. Book. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/19013740/. (Accessed November 08, 2016.)

Images from "The War of the Nations : Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings : Compiled from the Mid-Week Pictorial" (New York : New York Times, Co., 1919)

Notes: Selected from "The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings," published by the New York Times shortly after the 1919 armistice. This portfolio compiled selected images from their "Mid-Week Pictorial" newspaper supplements of 1914-19. 528 p. : chiefly ill. ; 42 cm.; hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 --Pictorial works. New York--New York Format: Rotogravures --1910-1920.

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Part Of: Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 (DLC) sgpwar 19191231

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