The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . at its labors would end in re-moving forever from the world the menace of aggression by armedforce. He made a long and admirable address in the course of whichhe said: ^This very day forty-eight years ago, on the 18th of January, 1871,the German Empire was proclaimed by an army of invasion in theChateau at Versailles. It was consecrated by the theft of two Frenchprovinces. It was thus a violation from its origin and, by the faultof its founders, it was
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . at its labors would end in re-moving forever from the world the menace of aggression by armedforce. He made a long and admirable address in the course of whichhe said: ^This very day forty-eight years ago, on the 18th of January, 1871,the German Empire was proclaimed by an army of invasion in theChateau at Versailles. It was consecrated by the theft of two Frenchprovinces. It was thus a violation from its origin and, by the faultof its founders, it was born in injustice. It has ended in oblivion. Youare assembled in order to repair the evil that has been done and toprevent a recurrence of it. You hold in your hands the future of theworld. I leave you gentlemen to your grave deliberations and declarethe Conference of Paris open. All eyes were then fixt on President Wilson who, in felicitousterms proposed, as the first business of the conference, that PremierClemenceau be made permanent chairman. In his speech acceptingthe otfer M. Clemenceau, having in mind the traditional difficulties. FRENCH OFFICIAL PHOTO. THE CLOCK HALL AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE IN PARISHere the Peace Conference met until it held sittings in Versailles 299 SKETCHES, PEACE TREATY, CHRONOLOGY that attend ne«::oliations of peace treaties, remarked that, as themembers of the Conference had come to«;etlier as friends, so asfriends they should disi)erse after their labors. After other pre-liminary formalities the Conference adjourned. On January 28,when the first i)lenary session of the Conference was held, it wasaddrest by President Wilson wlio, with great earnestness declared:We are not here alone as representatives of Governments, but asrepresentatives of jieoples, and in the settlement we make we needto satisfy, not the opinions of governments, but the opinion of man-kind. Select classes of men no longer direct the affairs of theworld, said he; the fortunes of
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