Part 24

Estimated at 85,000.

Moritz Kuhn, who altered his name to Bela Kuhn, was a vulgar criminal. Expelled from school for larceny, he underwent several terms of imprisonment, and is alleged to have pilfered from a fellow-prisoner. Even among some thieves there is no honor.

Italy was represented by Lieutenant-Colonel Romanelli, who resided in Budapest; Britain, by Col. Sir Thomas Cunningham, who was in Vienna, as was also Prince Livio Borghese. Later on the Powers delegated generals to be members of a military mission to the Hungarian capital.

At Bruck.

On July 20th.

Le Journal des Débats, August 4, 1919.

This is a larger proportion than was left to the Germans by the Treaty of Versailles.

Le Temps, July 8, 1919.

It was the habitual practice of the Conference to intrust missions abroad to generals who knew nothing whatever about the countries to which they were sent.

Le Temps, August 8, 1919.

Armistice of November 13, 1918, which had become void.

On June 13, 1919.

Composed of four members, one each for Britain, the United States, France, and Italy.

On July 20th.

Paris journals ascribed it to Mr. Balfour, although it does not bear the hall-mark of a diplomatist.

Le Journal des Débats, August 13, 1919.

Pertinax in L'Echo de Paris, August 10, 1919.

The New York Herald (Paris edition), August 10, 1919.

Le Journal des Débats, August 13, 1919. Article by Auguste Gauvain.

General Gorton is the one who is said to have despatched the telegram.

In the beginning of September, 1919.

The French government having prudently refused to furnish an envoy, the British chose Sir George Clark.

On June 10, 1919.

The actors in this episode were not all officers and civil servants. They included some men in responsible positions.

In Teschen.

On Friday, April 18, 1919.

The Rumanians, on the contrary, had been ordered to keep to the old conditions, although they, too, had lost their force.

That is exactly what happened in the end. But the delegates would not believe it until it became an accomplished fact.