Constantinople, disposition,
Constitutional objections, to affirmative guaranty, and to Cecil plan,
Council of Foreign Ministers, established, nickname,
Council of Four, self-constituted, secrecy, “Olympians,”
gives only
digest of Treaty to other delegates,
Shantung bargain, See also
Secret diplomacy.
Council of Ten, and Lansing’s substitute resolution
on League, during
Wilson’s absence, self-constituted
organization, and Supreme War
Council, divided, and secrecy,
Council of the Heads of States. See Council of Four.
Council (Executive Council) of the League, in Wilson’s
original draft,
analogous body in Cecil plan, in
Treaty,
Covenant. See League of Nations.
Croatia, disposition,
Czecho-Slovakia, erection,
Dalmatia, in Pact of London,
Danzig, for Poland,
Dardanelles, Fourteen Points on,
Declaration of war, affirmative guaranty and power over,
Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein, Heligoland,
Diplomacy. See Secret diplomacy.
Diplomatic adjustment, as basis of Covenant, exalted,
Lansing on
judicial settlement and, in Wilson’s
original draft, in Treaty, See
also Judicial settlement.
Disarmament, not touched in Lansing’s plan;
in Lansing’s resolution of
principles; in Wilson’s original
draft; in Treaty.
Dobrudja, disposition.
East Indians, and self-determination.
Economic influence on boundary lines.
Economic interdependence, importance in peace negotiations.
Economic pressure. See Non-intercourse.
Egypt, and self-determination; disposition.
Election of 1918, as rebuke to Wilson.
Entangling alliances. See Isolation.
Equality of nations, sacrifice in Wilson’s draft
of League; in Lansing’s
form for League; ignored in Cecil
plan; primacy of Great Powers
retained in reported Covenant; violation
by Treaty; and secret
diplomacy at Conference.
Esthonia, Wilson and; autonomy.
Ethnic influence on boundary lines. See also
Racial minorities;
Self-determination.
Finland, question of independence.
Fiume affair, Lansing’s attitude; Pact of London
in light of dissolution
of Austria-Hungary; resulting increase
in Italian claims as basis for
compromise; attitude of Italy toward
Jugo-Slavia; commercial
importance of Fiume to Jugo-Slavia;
campaign of Italian delegates for
Fiume; Italian public sentiment;
character of population,
self-determination question; efforts
to get Wilson’s approval; threat
to retire from Conference; Wilson’s
statement against Italian claim;
withdrawal of delegation; Italian
resentment against Wilson; as
lesson on secret diplomacy; delegation
returns; and Shantung.