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"Yes, indeed, you may use anything and everything you have ever written for us."

VICTOR F. LAWSON.

Thank you, Mr. Lawson, for this, and for the many other unusual privileges that have come to me in the service of The Chicago Daily News.

HARRY HANSEN.

CONTENTS

I am admitted to the Hôtel de Crillon and visit the

sacred precincts of the American mission to nego-

tiate peace-I attend a consultation over the

Fourteen Points, and learn something about their

strange ailment

The Place de la Concorde and the Quai d'Orsay on a

sunny January morning- I become interested in

the last word of kings and the balance of power . 19

Concerning the relative importance of a peace confer-

ence and a foot-ball game, and how it feels to sur-

vey the great of the earth through a doorway. . 32

How President Wilson went across the seas with his

formula for peace, and found that Europe had a

few ideas on the same subject..

M. Clemenceau becomes the victim of an assassin's bul-

let, and proves that his physique is as strong as

his will is firm

An invitation to tea lures me to the Hôtel Lutetia, and

I learn how 40,000,000 human beings fare on the

other side of the world.

A dip into President Wilson's mail-bag and what I

found there Also throwing light on what hap-

pened when the smaller nations heard of self-de-

How the Prince of the Hedjaz pitched his Arabian

tent in the apartments of a Parisian hotel, and

how he disconcerted the plans for a Jewish Pales-

tine and a French Syria by his modest request for

the empire of the califate

The story of a little town called Fiume, and how the

amazing unanimity with which all parties con-

cerned applied the Fourteen Points almost dis-

rupted the Peace Conference

Conference days in Paris - Jottings from a note-book

in the year of the great peace

How Belgium set about to get a brand-new parchment

for a tattered scrap of paper, and what came of it 194

The eighth point wins a splendid victory, and then

comes the Saar basin, and the whole fourteen suf-

The President prepares a garden party at Principo,

and the invited guests drag out the family skele-

Walks in the Paris of the conference, and how they led

to haunts of another day

"Nach Paris!" said the Germans, and how they

finally got there. Also showing that the German

sometimes not only gets what he wants, but also

what is coming to him.

A pilgrimage to the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, and

how it recalls the founding of an empire forty-

eight years ago .

How Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau made use of his

fifteen days, which were pretty dark, and his fif-

teen nights, which were just as dark

The story of the twenty-eighth of June, and how Ger-

many found peace at the end of a long, long road

President Wilson leaves France with two treaties of

peace, and the United States Senate gets the stage

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