. Mediæval and modern history . ofGermany and of the new statescreated by the disintegration ofthe Austro-Hungarian monarchyand the Russian and Turkishempires; and (3) the framingof a covenant for a League ofNations. The work was dividedamong a great number of com-mittees or commissions, whowere aided in their task bymore than a thousand histor-ical, ethnological, geographical,and diplomatic experts. The work of framing the League of Nations covenant was firstcompleted. The tentative draft of the epoch-making documentwas published February 14, 1919, and immediately became thesubject of a world
. Mediæval and modern history . ofGermany and of the new statescreated by the disintegration ofthe Austro-Hungarian monarchyand the Russian and Turkishempires; and (3) the framingof a covenant for a League ofNations. The work was dividedamong a great number of com-mittees or commissions, whowere aided in their task bymore than a thousand histor-ical, ethnological, geographical,and diplomatic experts. The work of framing the League of Nations covenant was firstcompleted. The tentative draft of the epoch-making documentwas published February 14, 1919, and immediately became thesubject of a world-wide discussion. The articles of the covenantwere interwoven with and made a part of the treaty with Germany,and likewise a part of each of the separate treaties made withher allies. On June 28, 1919, in the famous Hall of Mirrors in the TrianonPalace at Versailles—the very hall King William I,amidst imposing ceremonies, was proclaimed German Emperor in1871 — the treaty with Germany, which was the first © Harris & Ewing Fig. 117. Premier David Lloyd George of Great Britain. (From a photograph) 668 THE WORLD WAR [§ 729 was signed by the representatives of the allied and associatedpowers on the one side and the delegates of Germany on the important territorial readjustments that directly concernedGermany were as follows : Alsace-Lorraine were restored to Franceto redress the wrong done by Germany in 1871. The Saar basin,a rich German coal and iron region, was temporarily inter-nationalized and the mines ofthe district were ceded in fullownership to France as com-pensation for the wanton de-struction of French mines inthe territories occupied by theGerman armies. To undo the wrong doneto Denmark by Prussia in1864, such parts of Schleswigwere to be reunited to Denmarkas the inhabitants of theseparts by free and secret voteshould determine. On the East, Germany cededPosen, West Prussia on theleft bank of the Vistula, andparts of Silesia to the
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