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Vote Continued

TIME LIMITS OF TREATY OF VERSAILLES-Continued

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Subject

Railway, Schlauney and Nachod: construction at request of Czecho-Slovak State

Ports, waterways, railways conventions: if any, obligatory on Germany

Occupation of the Rhine: evacuation of Cologne district

Ports, waterways, railways: reciprocity to be given Do.: revision by Council of League of Nations of certain provisions

Shipbuilding for reparation

Strasburg-Kehl: prolongation of temporary régime
Alsace-Lorraine: continuance, for 10 years, of supply
of electric power from German stations

Reparation delivery of coal to France for 10 years
Do. delivery of coal to Belgium for 10 years
Do. delivery of coal to Italy for 10 years
Railways: continuous brake, on goods trains

St. Gothard railway: denunciation of convention
Occupation of the Rhine: evacuation of Coblenz dis-
trict

Free zones of Hamburg and Stettin: revision of conditions

Ottoman Public Debt: annual gold payments for 12 years

Upper Silesia: exportation of coal to Germany for 15

years

Occupation of Rhine provinces for 15 years

Saar Basin: plebiscite

Occupation of the Rhine: evacuation of remainder of
German territory

Rhine-Meuse Canal: Germany to construct her por-
tion if desired

Reparation to be completed

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Labour Conference: invitation to first

Up to Mar. 31, 1920.

Up to Apr. 30, 1921 .

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German aircraft and personnel: use in searching for submarine mines

Labour Conference: first meeting

Reparatión: delivery of lists of reconstruction materials to be supplied by Germany

Army limitation of German forces and armaments and notification of stocks

Reparation payment of 20,000 million gold marks or equivalent

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II

Other Treaties Related to the Treaty of Peace

with Germany

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1. Assistance to France in the Event of Unprovoked Aggression by Germany.-Agreement Between the United States and France Signed at Versailles June 28, 19191

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Signed at Versailles, June 28, 1919; submitted to the Senate by the President July 29, 1919; project of law authorizing ratification by President of France adopted by Chamber of Deputies October 2, 1919 by vote of 510 to 0 and by the Senate October 11, 1919 by vote of 218 to 0; law of October 12, 1919 (Duvergier, Collection complète des lois et décrets d'intérêt général, 1919, p. 815); United States: Not considered by the Senate; returned to the Secretary of State by resolution of the Senate February 12, 1935; Unperfected Treaties H-9.

WHEREAS the United States of America and the French Republic are equally animated by the desire to maintain the peace of the world so happily restored by the Treaty of Peace signed at Versailles the 28th day of June, 1919, putting an end to the war begun by the aggression of the German Empire and ended by the defeat of that Power, and,

WHEREAS the United States of America and the French Republic are fully persuaded that an unprovoked movement of aggression by Germany against France would not only violate both the letter and the spirit of the Treaty of Versailles to which the United States of America and the French Republic are parties, thus exposing France anew to the intolerable burdens of an unprovoked war, but that such aggression on the part of Germany would be and is so regarded by the Treaty of Versailles as a hostile act against all the Powers signatory to that Treaty and as calculated to disturb the Peace of the world by involving inevitably and directly the States of Europe and indirectly, as experience has amply and unfortunately demonstrated, the world at large; and,

WHEREAS the United States of America and the French Republic fear that the stipulations relating to the left bank of the Rhine con

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