The Peace Negotiations

The Peace Negotiations, subtitled A Personal Narrative, is by Robert Lansing. The contents list, among others, chapters on reasons for writing a personal narrative, a general plan for a league of nations, self-determination, the system of mandates and the Shantung settlement. The text says that early in October, 1918, it required no prophetic vision to perceive that the World War would come to an end in the near future. The text says the President considered it essential to have an American member added to the Supreme War Council, which then consisted of M. Clemenceau, Mr. Lloyd George and Signor Orlando.

The text says Colonel House sailed from New York on October 17, en route for Paris where the Supreme War Council was in session. The narrator says he favored the speedy negotiation of a short and simple preliminary treaty that, so far as the League of Nations was concerned, would hold a series of declarations and an agreement for a future international conference. The text says that in every case of mandate the Mandatory shall render to the Council an annual report in reference to the territory committed to its charge.