ILLUSTRATIONS ALLIED SIGNATURES TO THE TREATY.... Frontispiece A PLENARY SESSION OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE GERMAN SIGNATURES TO THE TREATY .... PAGE 22 26 34 GERMANY IN 1919 61 BOUNDARIES OF GERMANY IN THE WEST.. THE SAAR BASIN THE GREAT EMPIRE THAT WAS AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 86 BOUNDARIES OF GERMANY IN THE EAST.. 74 82 94 The Treaty of Peace and the League of Nations. OUT UT of the blood and the havoc of the Great War came the noblest fruition of humanitarian thought and effort that the world has ever known. It came in the form of a League of Nations and a Peace Treaty transcending in international importance every compact since the dawn of time. Into it entered the members of the conquered Teutonic Alliance on the one side and on the other side were arrayed the five principal powers with general interests; the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan comprising the Supreme Council, and a Plenary Council composed of representatives of twenty-three powers that had either formally declared war against or were in a state of diplomatic rupture with the Teutonic Alliance. Idealism and materialism fought for mastery in that world-shaking and world-shaping congress of the victor nations. While the civilized world looked on, masters of diplomacy and leaders bearing the aspirations of entire nations Vol 7-1 nd England attached great importance was is inspection of the battlefields of the western ront and of the towns and fields laid waste by OW THE FRONT LINE WAS MANNED BY EACH NATION, chart and those that follow are reproduced from the Statistical Summary ed by Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, Chief of the Statistics Branch of the Staff, U. S. Army. many and Austria. France, in particular, ted that no true picture of the war and dea of the just reparations to be demanded Germany and its allies could be formed |