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10 GEORGE V

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The United States of America, The British Empire, France, Italy and Japan,

These Powers being described in the present Treaty as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers,

These Powers constituting with the Principal Powers mentioned above the Allied and Associated Powers,

of the one part;

And Germany,

of the other part;

Bearing in mind that on the request of the Imperial German Government an Armistice was granted on November 11, 1918, to Germany by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in order that a Treaty of Peace might be concluded with her, and

The Allied and Associated Powers being equally desirous that the war in which they were successively involved directly or indirectly and which originated in the declaration of war by Austria-Hungary on July 28, 1914, against Serbia, the declaration of war by Germany against Russia on August 1, 1914, and against France on August 3, 1914, and in the invasion of Belgium should be replaced by a firm, just and durable Peace.

For this purpose the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES represented as follows:

The President of the United States of America, by:


 * The Honourable Woodrow, acting in his own name and by his own proper authority;
 * The Honourable Robert Secretary of State;
 * The Honourable Henry, formerly Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States at Rome and Paris;
 * The Honourable Edward M. ;
 * General Tasker H., Military Representative of the United States on the Supreme War Council;

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, by:


 * The Right Honourable David, M.P., First Lord of His Treasury and Prime Minister;
 * The Right Honourable Andrew, M.P., His Lord Privy Seal;
 * The Right Honourable Viscount, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., His Secretary of State for the Colonies;
 * The Right Honourable Arthur James, O.M., M.P., His Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
 * The Right Honourable George Nicoll, M.P., Minister without portfolio;
 * And