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Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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3. Victory medal fordomestic service 5. Photograph of thooriginal clay modelof the Victory But-ton, A. A. Weinman,Sculptor 0. Battle service, alsoshowing defensivesector bar THE AMERICAN VICTORY MEDAL PHOTOGRAPHS © BY F. P. MERRITT 294 PERSONAL SKETCHESTHE TREATY OF PEACE AND A CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR Part II THE CONPEEENCE AND THE SIGNINGOP THE TREATY 205
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s - 3 •ji;(i THE CONFERENCE OF THE ENTENTE IN PARIS January 18, 1919—April 30, 1919 ON the Quai dOrsay in Paris on January 18 the curtain rose onthe first scene in the final act of the World War drama. Thiswas the formal assembling of the Peace Conference,^ in the famousClock Hall of the Foreign Office. At the head of the council tablewas the gilded chair of the President of France, M. Poincare. Whenall the chairs had been occupied some Indian princes in turbans gaveto the scene its only distinctive costumes. It Avas an assemblage ofthe leading statesmen of the Entente world, German delegates notbeing present. At the head of the horseshoe were representativesof Great Britain and the United States; on the outside of the left-hand table representatives of British Colonies, whose recognition hadbeen one of the significant acts of the conference, Australia comingfirst, Canada next, and India last. After the British Colonials camethe Japanese. Inside both tables sat smaller nations, Cu

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