The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . draftthe complete plan for the League ofNations in January, 1919, havingindorsed this plan as set forth byPresident Wilson at the plenarysession where he spoke on theLeague of Nations constitution. Hewas one of the opponents of thearticle for the abolition of conscrip-tion, but subsequently cabled Presi-dent Wilson that the Italian peopleacclaimed the League of the Italian Chamber in March he stated that Italy had agreedto a policy of com
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . draftthe complete plan for the League ofNations in January, 1919, havingindorsed this plan as set forth byPresident Wilson at the plenarysession where he spoke on theLeague of Nations constitution. Hewas one of the opponents of thearticle for the abolition of conscrip-tion, but subsequently cabled Presi-dent Wilson that the Italian peopleacclaimed the League of the Italian Chamber in March he stated that Italy had agreedto a policy of compromise in conjunction with Italian and Jugo-Slavclaims on the eastern coast of the Adriatic. Before the peace treatywas signed, however, his position became insecure and he resignedhis office. Orlando had been a leading figure in the Peace Confer-ence, ranking next after Clemenceau, President Wilson and LloydGeorge, who with Orlando made up what was called the big discontent over the proposed givins of Fiume to the Jugo-slavs then undermined his former great popularitj.^^ ^- Compilod from an article in the New York Premier Orlando 258 PERSONAL SKETCHES OF WAR LEADERS KING PETER OF SERBL\ King Peter was the second man in this war to become a kingwithout a countn-. Serbia was as clean sAvept as Belgium was,altho the sweeping took place more than a year later. Peter at thattime was seventy-one years old and physically infirm. As men readof his wanderings about his doomed country, of his flight from it,followed by a nation of fugitives, his condition attained somethingof a Lear-like majesty. He said he was no longer a king, he wasonly a soldier, but it was as an indomitable soldier and an inspiredfigure that he still ruled Serbia. All through his career, from gainingthe Cross of the Legion of Honor in the Foreign Legion against thePrussians in 1871, through service in the Bosnian outbreak againstTurkey, down to the World War, the soldier predominated in Peter.
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