JAN 17 1923 COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. First Edition PREFACE THIS volume, it is hoped, will contribute vitally to the documentary record of America at Paris, illuminating not only the inside history of the Peace Conference, but exhibiting in the form of original letters, memoranda, and minutes, the underlying processes through which the final decisions were reached. Nothing could more clearly present the workings of the President's mind, or his intimate relationships with his advisers, than many of these documents; here are exposed the veritable procedures by which the Americans worked out their policies and came to their decisions. Relatively few of the sixtynine documents here included have been published before; and all are referred to or quoted from in Volumes I and II of this book. They are all from Woodrow Wilson's private files, his own records preserved at Paris, except the following: From Norman H. Davis: Documents 49, 54, 55. From Bernard M. Baruch: Documents 29, 47, 60. Documents 31, 32, 40. From Dr. Isaiah Bowman: Document 36. From Major General Mason M. Patrick: Document 61. From Ray Stannard Baker: Documents 4, 5, 6, 16, 21, 35, 38, 39, 43, 68, 69. It is a matter of great regret that the minutes of the Councils of Four, Ten, and Five, upon which so much of the narrative in Volumes I and II is based, have not yet been published. Their great bulk makes it wholly im possible, of course, to include them here, except for a few annexed reports and memoranda. The minutes of one important meeting of the Heads of States, however, that of March 20, before the Council of Four began functioning formally, is here presented in full in Document I. It will serve as an excellent specimen of the voluminous minutes of the Four as kept by the Secretary, Sir M. P. A. Hankey. Since the League of Nations was so peculiarly an enterprise of the Americans at Paris with President Wilson as its chief sponsor the record of the origin and development of the Covenant is of special interest. The President methodically preserved every scrap of memoranda connected with the League, including not only his his own original notes, made upon his typewriter or in shorthand, but letters and memoranda from Colonel House, General Bliss, and other American advisers; and these are here presented as completely as possible. A number of important unpublished documents of foreign origin-British, French, and Italian-are here included not only for the light they throw upon the methods of the Peace Conference, but more especially for the influence they had upon American policies at Paris. CONTENTS OF VOLUME III DOCUMENTS PAGE PREFACE. PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE DOCUMENT I. Minutes of the Secret Conference of the Four Heads of States, on March 20, 1919, relative PART II. THE OLD AND THE NEW DIPLOMACY. ORGANIZA- DOCUMENT 2. Report made early in January, 1918, by the American Inquiry to President Wilson regard- ing "War Aims and Peace Terms." It was pre- pared by Dr. S. E. Mezes, David Hunter Miller and Walter Lippmann. The President used this report in formulating six of his Fourteen Points. Stenographic notes which he made on the margin of this document (see facsimile, Volume I, p. 111) were translated by him for the author and ap- DOCUMENT 3. The "Fourteen Points" and the Four Points. President Wilson's Fourteen Points, from his Address to the Joint Session of Congress, Jan- uary 8, 1918. President Wilson's Four Points, from his Address at Mount Vernon, July 4, 1918. DOCUMENT 4. Statement adopted by the Council of Ten, January 17, for presentation to the Press rep- DOCUMENT 5. Text of Resolutions adopted by dele- gates of the Allied and American Press, at the Hotel Ritz, January 16, 1919. . DOCUMENT 6. Record of protests and resolutions adopted by American press correspondents, April 23, 1919, regarding admission to meeting of Allied with German delegates at Versailles May 7, at which the treaty was formally presented to the DOCUMENT 7. Preliminary French plan of procedure for the Peace Conference with letters of trans- mission from Ambassador Jusserand, November 29, 1918, to the State Department, and from Frank PART III. THE LEAGUE AND THE PEACE. DOCUMENT 8. The "Phillimore Report" of March 20, 1918, to the British Cabinet regarding the or- ganization of a League of Nations. The basic DOCUMENT 9. Colonel House's proposed draft of a covenant for the League of Nations, July 16, 1918, with his letter of transmittal and explanation to President Wilson. The articles starred are those DOCUMENT 10. President Wilson's first draft of the Covenant of the League of Nations. DOCUMENT 11. General J. C. Smuts's recommenda- tions for a League of Nations, as copied from his pamphlet for President Wilson's use. DOCUMENT 12. President Wilson's second draft (first printed draft) of the Covenant, distributed Jan- DOCUMENT 13. Memorandum made by Major-General PAGE |