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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
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al, and air terms. Germany profestto be wholly unable to accept the Reparations Commission set up bythe Allies as involving an infringement of her sovereignty, but pro-posed a cooperative German commission to work alongside it. She 328 THE CONFERENCE AND SIGNING OF THE TREATY accepted responsibility only for civilian losses in occupied Belgiumand France and agreed to a maximum payment of 100,000,000,000marks, provided the other terms as to colonies, overseas trade, andterritories were accepted as she proposed. She refused to sanctionthe trial of the former Kaiser or to accede to his extradition fromHolland, on the ground that no German could be brought before aforeign court without established law or legal basis. Similarly, shecould not agree to extradite other Germans accused of violations ofthe laws and customs of war. Instead, she proposed a court of neu-trals to judge the fact of crime, punishment to remain with the court.A letter covering the Ententes reply to this plea from Ger-
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^^^.^^^s^smmmnm THE WEIMAR THEATER Here met the German National Assembly after leaving Berlin in the winter of 1918-1919. The statue is of Gothe and Schiller in bronze many for what she called a peace of justice, was signed by M.Clemeneeau, President of the Peace Conference, and addrest toCount von Brockdorff-Rantzau, President of the German delegation.It contained the following passages that were widely praised inEntente circles at the time: The Allied and Associated Powers feel it necessary to begin theirreply by a clear statement of the judgment of the world, which has beenforged by practically the whole of civilized mankind. In the view of 329 SKETCHES, PEACE TREATY, CHRONOLOGY the Allied ami Associated Powers the war which began on the 1st ofAugust, 1914, was the greatest crime against humanity and the freedomof the peoples that any nation calling itself civilized has ever consciouslycommitted. For many years the rulers of Germany, true to the Prus-sian tradition, strove for a po

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