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13 unusual facts about Paris Peace Conference


Cyrus Adler

At the end of World War I, he participarted in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Dmowski's Line

It was proposed by the Polish delegation at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and it was named after Roman Dmowski, Polish foreign minister.

George Gavan Duffy

Gavan Duffy published articles and pamphlets urging recognition of Ireland as a sovereign nation at the Paris Peace Conference, which caused increasing embarrassment to the French establishment, who believed his publications were damaging Franco-British relations.

Henry William Carless Davis

Later that year, at the conclusion of the war, Davis served on the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference between December 1918 and March 1919, and then spent a few weeks as the acting director of the Department of Overseas Trade at the invitation of Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland and in the New Years Honours of that year, Davis was made Commander of the British Empire.

James Truslow Adams

By late 1918, he was selected for the US delegation to the Paris Peace Conference.

In 1917, he served with Colonel House on President Wilson's commission, "The Inquiry", to prepare data for the Paris Peace Conference.

Joakim Puhk

After the end of German Occupation and beginning of Estonian war of independence Puhk became an economic expert consulting the Estonian government, participating at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and in 1920 at the signing of the Tartu Peace Treaty.

Marjorie Graves

She attended the post World War I Paris Peace Conference, before transferring to the Intelligence Department of the Home Office.

Paris 1919

Paris 1919 usually refers to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.

Paris Peace Conference, 1919

Instead it focused on two demands: the inclusion of their racial equality proposal in the League's Covenant and Japanese territorial claims with respect to former German colonies, namely Shantung (including Kiaochow) and the Pacific islands north of the Equator (the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, the Mariana Islands, and the Carolines).

Petar Pekić

As Bunjevci Croat from southern Austria-Hungary, he participated on the Paris Peace Conference on September 22, 1919 as a part of Bunjevci Croats mission.

Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia

In December 1918, Prince Andrei left Russia with his wife Elibeta Ruffo Di Saint Antimo, who was pregnant with their first child, and his father, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Marlborough in order to attend the Paris Peace Conference, looking support in western Europe for the White Army.

Themistoklis Bamichas

In 1919 he went to the Paris Peace Conference as part of the Northern Epirote delegation under Alexandros Karapanos.


Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed

He was a member of the Egyptian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference held in Versailles in 1919, where he pleaded for the independence of Egypt from Britain.

Albania–United States relations

Even while the United States, which had closed its mission to Albania in 1946, was being vilified by communist propaganda during the regime of Enver Hoxha, ordinary Albanians remembered that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson had interceded on behalf of Albanian independence from 1919 to 1920, strongly arguing against a proposed partition of Albania by the Paris Peace Conference and subsequently enabling Albania to achieve statehood and international recognition by the League of Nations.

Allyn Abbott Young

From 1913 to 1920 he was professor at Cornell University, but war took him to Washington DC in 1917 to direct the Bureau of Statistical Research for the War Trade Board, and to New York in 1918 to head the economics division of a group known as "The Enquiry" under Colonel Edward M. House, the group charged with laying the groundwork for the Paris Peace Conference.

Armenian volunteer units

The size of these units increased during the war and Boghos Nubar gave the summary of these units in a public latter to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 as 150,000 Armenians in the volunteer units and 50,000 Armenian militia.

Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

At the Paris Peace Conference Harvard Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge submitted his report to the American Delegation proposing the separation of the Sudetenland from Bohemia and Moravia, since it appeared unwise to force 3.5 million Germans under Czech rule, in violation of the principle of self-determination.

Fred Whitlam

As a member of the Australian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, Whitlam argued Australia's case for a permanent international human-rights court, an idea whose time was yet to come.

Harold Temperley

He attended the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and later worked on an official history of it, on a scheme devised by George Louis Beer and Lord Eustace Percy.

Khaibalikend Massacre

In January 1919, the commander of British forces in the Caspian General William M. Thomson approved Khosrov bek Sultanov's appointment by the Baku government as provisional Governor General of Karabakh and Zangezur (control over Zangezur was ultimately never established), pending a final decision at the Paris Peace Conference.

Military history of Italy during World War I

Italy's representative in the Paris Peace Conference which led to the Versailles Treaty was Premier Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, considered one of the "Big Four" with President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, Prime Minister David Lloyd-George of the United Kingdom, and Premier Georges Clemenceau of the French Republic.

Ronald Humphrey

Some of the documents were used by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong negotiators at the Paris Peace Conference.