¹ See Conditions of an Armistice with Germany, Supplement to this Journal, Vol. 13 (1919), p. 101, and Secretary Lansing's communication to the German Government, Nov. 5, 1918, ibid., p. 95

² Summary of Observations of the German Delegation on the Conditions of Peace, printed in David Hunter Miller΄s My Diary at the Peace Conference of Paris, Vol. XIX, p. 283.

³ The treaty is printed in Supplement to this Journal, Vol. 13 (1919), p. 151. See p. 251 et seq/., for the Reparation provisions

⁴ See communications of Count Brockdorff-Rantzau and M. Clemenceau's reply, printed in Miller, op. cit., Vol. XVIII, pp. 242-250

⁵ In his address of Sept. 27,1918, particularly mentioned by Germany in her note of Oct. 6, 1918, requesting the President to initiate peace negotiations, President Wilson specifically charged that the Central Empires “forced this war upon us.” (Congressional Record, Sept. 28,1918, Vol. 56, Pt. II, p. 10887.) In Secretary Lansing's note of Oct. 14,1918, the President very solemnly called the attention of the Government of Germany “to the language and plain intent of one of the terms of peace which the German Government has now accepted.” The note then quoted from the President's address of July 4, 1918, “The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly, and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world,” and added, “The power which has hitherto controlled the German nation is of the sort here described.” (This Journal, Supp. Vol. 13 (1919), p. 89.)

⁶ Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement. Written from his unpublished and personal material by Ray Stannard Baker, 1922. Vol. II, p. 373.

⁷ Letter of Norman H. Davis, March 25,1919 (autographed original), to President Wilson, with memorandum of American experts on the reparation settlement, their estimates, and those of the French and British (typewritten original), printed as Document 56 by Ray Stannard Baker, op. cit., Vol. I l l, pp. 383-396.

⁸ Annotations of the Treaty of Versailles, reproduced in Miller, op. cit., Vol. XIX, p. 288.

⁹ Letter of Norman H. Davis and Vance McCormick to President Wilson, April 4 (autographed original), with draft clauses, comments and reservations (typewritten copy), reproduced as Document 58 in Baker, op. cit., Vol. I l l , pp. 403-408.

¹⁰ Annotations of the Treaty of Versailles, Miller, op. cit., Vol. XIX, pp. 288-289. Concerning the first change mentioned in the above quotation, a paragraph entitled “ Acknowledgment by Enemy” appears as number 9 of Schedule A attached to the Reparation memorandum of Messrs. Davis, Strauss and Lamont sent to Col. House on March 24th. Baker, op. cit., Vol. I l l , p. 389. Concerning the second change, the following reservation was made to the basic text of April 4th: “ Article 1 is agreed to subject to : (a) Italian reserve with respect to substituting for ΄enemy States΄ where it first occurs, the word ΄Germany,΄ thus proclaiming the liability of Germany for all consequences of the war of herself and her Allies.” (Baker, op. cit., Vol. I l l , p. 404.)

¹¹ Annotations of the Treaty of Versailles, reproduced in Miller, op. cit., Vol. XIX, p. 253.

¹² Annotations of the Treaty of Versailles, Miller, op. cit., Vol. XIX, pp. 254-258'.

¹³ Miller, op. cit, Vol. VII, p. 147. See the statement of Mr. Lloyd George in the Council of Four on April 29th, that “ He had himself returned to London in order to explain to the British Parliament that Germany could not pay the whole costs of the war,” and his previous statement in discussing the second paragraph of the draft presented by Mr. Lamont, Mr. Keynes, and M. Loucheur on April 7th, which in modified form, became Article 232 of the treaty, that “ it was necessary to state somewhere the reason why the Allies agreed to accept less than the whole cost of the war. The phrase had been put in to justify the Treaty to the French and the British peoples.” (Annotations of the Treaty of Versailles, Miller, op. cit., Vol. XIX, pp. 291 and 294.) Among the reserves to this text appears the following: “ (b) French reserve as to the political policy of incorporating Article 1 and the first half of Article 2, as this is in the nature of a preamble and might be omitted or placed in the general preambles of the Treaty.” (Draft clauses, comments and reservations, accompanying letter of Norman H. Davis and Vance McCormick to President Wilson, April 4,1919, Baker, op. cit., Vol. Il l, p. 404.)

¹⁴ See tables submitted by the Special Committee on Reparation reproduced in Document 56, Baker, op. cit., Vol. I l l , pp. 394-396

¹⁵ Annotations of the Treaty of Versailles, Miller, op. cit., Vol. XIX, p. 284.

¹⁶ Report on the Work of the Reparation Commission from 1920 to 1922, by Andrew McFadyean, General Secretary. Reparation Commission. Y. London, 1923, p. 25

¹⁷ The table of claims is printed in the Report on the Work of the Reparation Commission, ibid., Appendix VII, opposite page 190.

¹⁸ Quoted from the Report on the Work of the Reparation Commission, ibid., p. 34.

¹⁹ The General Secretary of the Reparation Commission, in the report heretofore quoted, in referring to the table of claims printed as Appendix VII of his report, says: “ It would be idle to pretend that a consideration of it in isolation would greatly assist the reader to reconstruct for himself the process by which the total of 132 milliards was arrived at. As has been explained, the procedure followed by the Commission was such that it was not possible to say which of the items figuring in the claims were submitted to reduction and in what degree.”(Page 36.)

²⁰ Report on Work of the Reparation Commission, ibid., p. 23.

²¹ See address by Mr. Owen D. Young, chairman of the committee of experts that drafted the Young Plan, delivered at San Francisco, March 24, 1930, and printed in the New York Times, March 25th

²² Bulletin of International News, Aug. 1, 1929. (Information Service on International Affairs, London.)

²³ Report reproduced as Document 54 in Baker, op. cit., Vol. I l l, p. 376.

²⁴ Paragraph 5 of Schedule C attached to the Reparation memorandum of Messrs. Davis, Strauss and Lamont, submitted to Col. House March 24, 1919. Reproduced in Baker, op. cit., Vol. I l l , p. 394.

²⁵ See article “ The Dawes Report on German Reparation Payments,” this Journal, Vol. 18 (1924), p. 419.

²⁶ Ibid.

²⁷ London Times, Aug. 18, 1924, p. 16.

²⁸ Reparation Commission, XIV. Official Documents. The Experts' Plan for Reparation Payments, pp. 10 and 39.

²⁹ London Times, Oct. 29, 1923, p. 12.

³⁰ Final Act of the Hague Conference, Jan. 20, 1930. British Parliamentary Papers, Misc. No. 4 (1930), Cmd. 3484, p. 14.

³¹ Report of the Committee of Experts, Supplement to this Journal, p. 81.