The Treaty of Peace Between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany: And Other Treaty Engagements, Signed at Versailles, June 28th, 1919 ; Together with the Reply of the Allied and Associated Powers to the Observations of the German Delegation on the Conditions of PeaceH.M. Stationery Office, 1920 - 310 pages Of Conditions of peace -- Index to the Treaty of Peace -- Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany -- Protocol supplementary to the Treaty of peace -- Treaty between the British Empire and France respecting assisance to France in the event of an unprovoked aggression by Germany -- Agreement between the United States of America and France respecting assistance to France in the event of unprovoked aggression by Germany -- Agreement between the United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, and France, and Germany, with regard to the Military occupation of the territories of the Rhine -- Treaty of peace between the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan, and Poland -- Reply of the Allied and Associated Powers to the observations of the German Delegation on the Conditions of Peace. |
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A.P. parties thereto administration Allied and Associated Allied or Associated Alsace-Lorraine Annex armaments Army ARTICLE Associated Powers Belgium boundary Bulgaria ceded Central Rhine Commission cession China Claims Clearing Office coming into force Contracts Convention Council Court Covenant Czecho-Slovak Danzig debts disarmed and treated dispute Ditto Ditto Ditto duties East Prussia economic resources enemy Eupen export Finance fixed France free zones frontier German auxiliary German Empire German Government German nationals German territory Germany renounces Germany undertakes Kiel Canal kilometres Labour League of Nations Marienwerder ments merchant ship military mines Mixed Arbitral Tribunal months of Treaty Moresnet Navigation November 11 occupation of Baltic Original member payment period plebiscite Poland ports prescriptions present Treaty Principal Allied provisions railways régime renewed between Germany Reparation Commission Representative resident Restitution rights and interests river Saar Basin Section signatory Silesia tion treated as merchant Treaty coming Upper Silesia VIII Vistula vote waterways
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Page 14 - Will entrust the League with the general supervision of the trade in arms and ammunition with the countries in which the control of this traffic is necessary in the common interest; (e) Will make provision to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of all members of the League.
Page 13 - To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the wellbeing and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilisation and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant.
Page 11 - State, and that they will take the necessary steps to afford passage through their territory to the forces of any of the Members of the League which are co-operating to protect the covenants of the League.
Page 11 - Assembly, if concurred in by the Representatives of those Members of the League represented on the Council and of a majority of the other Members of the League, exclusive in each case of the Representatives of the parties to the dispute...
Page 8 - The Members of the League recognize that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations. 2. The Council, taking account of the geographical situation and circumstances of each State, shall formulate plans for such reduction for the consideration and action of the several Governments.
Page 7 - The permanent Secretariat shall be established at the Seat of the League. The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary-General and such secretaries and staff as may be required. 2. The first Secretary-General shall be the person named in the Annex ; thereafter the Secretary-General shall be appointed by the Council with the approval of the majority of the Assembly.
Page 12 - If both parties to the dispute when so invited refuse to accept the obligations of membership in the League for the purposes of such dispute, the Council may take such measures and make such recommendations as will prevent hostilities and will result in the settlement of the dispute.
Page 15 - Amendments to this Covenant will take effect when ratified by the members of the League whose representatives compose the Council and by a majority of the members of the League whose representatives compose the Assembly.
Page 12 - League, have undertaken any obligations inconsistent with the terms of this Covenant, it shall be the duty of such Member to take immediate steps to procure its release from such obligations.
Page 194 - During the night ; (c) In unhealthy processes. (5) Extension and application of the International Conventions adopted at Berne in 1906 on the prohibition of night work for womsn employed in industry and the prohibition of the use of white phosphorus in the manufacture of matches. SECTION II. GENERAL PRINCIPLES. ARTICLE 427. The High Contracting Parties, recognising that the well-being, physical, moral and intellectual, of industrial wage-earners is of supreme international importance...