OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE ALLIED AND Signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, September 10, 1919. The United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan, These Powers being described in the present Treaty as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers; Belgium, China, Cuba, Greece, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Siam, and CzechoSlovakia, These Powers constituting, with the Principal Powers mentioned above, the Allied and Associated Powers, of the one part; And Austria, of the other part; Whereas on the request of the former Imperial and Royal AustroHungarian Government an Armistice was granted to Austria-Hungary on November 3, 1918, by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in order that a Treaty of Peace might be concluded, and Whereas the Allied and Associated Powers are equally desirous that the war in which certain among them were successively involved, directly or indirectly, against Austria-Hungary, and which originated in the declaration of war against Serbia on July 28, 1914, by the former Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government, and in the hostilities conducted by Germany in alliance with Austria-Hungary, should be replaced by a firm, just and durable Peace, and Whereas the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy has now ceased to exist, and has been replaced in Austria by a republican government, and Whereas the Principal Allied and Associated Powers have already 1 British Treaty Series, No. 11 (1919). It is impracticable to reproduce in this Supplement the map annexed to the treaty. This treaty not ratified by the United States at the date of publication herein. 1 recognized that the Czecho-Slovak State, in which are incorporated certain portions of the said Monarchy, is a free, independent and allied State, and Whereas the said Powers have also recognized the union of certain portions of the said Monarchy with the territory of the Kingdom of Serbia as a free, independent and allied State, under the name of the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, and Whereas it is necessary, while restoring peace, to regulate the situation which has arisen from the dissolution of the said Monarchy and the formation of the said States, and to establish the government of these countries on a firm foundation of justice and equity; For this purpose the high contracting parties represented as follows: The President of the United States of America, by: The Honourable Frank Lyon Polk, Under Secretary of State; General Tasker H. Bliss, Military Representative of the United His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, by: The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, O. M., M. P., The Right Honourable Andrew Bonar Law, M. P., His Lord The Right Honourable Viscount Milner, G. C. B., G. C. M. G., The Right Honourable George Nicoll Barnes, M. P., Minister And for the Dominion of Canada, by: The Honourable Sir Albert Edward Kemp, K. C. M. G., Minister of the Overseas Forces; for the Commonwealth of Australia, by: The Honourable George Foster Pearce, Minister of Defense; for the Union of South Africa, by: The Right Honourable Viscount Milner, G. C. B., G. C. M. G.; for the Dominion of New Zealand, by: The Honourable Sir Thomas Mackenzie, K. C. M. G., High for India, by: The Right Honourable Baron Sinha, K. C., Under Secretary of The President of the French Republic, by: Mr. Georges Clemenceau, President of the Council, Minister of War; Mr. Stephen Pichon, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Louis-Lucien Klotz, Minister of Finance; Mr. André Tardieu, Commissary General for Franco-American Mr. Jules Cambon, Ambassador of France. His Majesty the King of Italy, by: The Honourable Tommaso Tittoni, Senator of the Kingdom, The Honourable Vittorio Scialoja, Senator of the Kingdom; His Majesty The Emperor of Japan, by: Viscount Chinda, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of H. M. the Emperor of Japan at London; Mr. K. Matsui, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of H. M. the Emperor of Japan at Paris; Mr. H. Ijuin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of H. M. the Emperor of Japan at Rome; His Majesty the King of the Belgians, by: Mr. Paul Hymans, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister of Mr. Jules van den Heuvel, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Mr. Emile Vandervelde, Minister of Justice, Minister of State; The President of the Chinese Republic by: Mr. Lou Tseng-Tsiang, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Chengting Thomas Wang, formerly Minister of Agriculture and Commerce; The President of the Cuban Republic, by: Mr. Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, Dean of the Faculty of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, by: Mr. Nicolas Politis, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Athos Romanos, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister The President of the Republic of Nicaragua, by: Mr. Salvador Chamorro, President of the Chamber of Deputies; The President of the Republic of Panama, by: Mr. Antonio Burgos, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister The President of the Polish Republic, by: Mr. Ignace J. Paderewski, President of the Council of Ministers, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Roman Dmowski, President of the Polish National Committee; The President of the Portuguese Republic, by: Dr. Affonso da Costa, formerly President of the Council of Dr. Augusto Luiz Vieira Soares, formerly Minister for Foreign His Majesty the King of Roumania, by: M. Nicolas Misu, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Roumania at London; Dr. Alexander Vaida-Voevod, Minister without portfolio ; His Majesty, the King of the Serbs, the Croats, and the Slovenes, by: Mr. Nicolas P. Pachitch, formerly President of the Council of Ministers; Mr. Ante Trumbic, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Ivan Zolger, Doctor of Law; |