Dozens of Commissions Work on Drafts at Paris Peace Talks
At Paris, multiple commissions including the society of nations and a supreme economic council push toward clarifying and approving key articles of the postwar arrangement. The pace is rapid as nations pledge support, with American delegates aiming to shape armistice extensions and the handling of demobilization, production, and economic logistics.
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Congress of the United States
Teatrol
Ukrainians Accept Peace Invitation but Deter February Fifteenth
The Ukrainian soviet government says it is willing to accept the allied invitation to a Marmara conference among Russian factions but deems February 15 too soon. It favors a Paris meeting over Princes Islands. Paris reports note Wilson and Lansing attend a memorial for Theodore Troprevel.
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Marmara
Paris
Princes Islands
Allies Agree as to Claiming at Peace Conference
The five great powers at the peace conference face clashes over many points. France presses Alsace Lorraine, Rhine frontier protections, and Sarre basin annexation, seeks a future buffer state, and outlines a 66 billion franc reparation. Greece seeks Epirus, Thrace, and Smyrna. Czecho-Slovakia corridors. Montenegro resists loss of self-government. Adriatic issues loom.
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Alsace-Lorraine
Ascuss
Rhine
Palatinate
Germany
Chamber of Deputies
Syria
Bigme
Dalometii
Albania
Montenegro
Serbia
Nicholas
Czecho-Slovakia
Bohemia
Adriatic
Great Britain's postwar aims and mandates plan
Great Britain calls for a peaceful world order under self determination with international transit freedom by rail and water. It seeks mandates over German colonies south of the equator for Australia and over parts of Africa and Mesopotamia, plus participation in allied indemnities and reparations for war damages.
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Great Britain
Australia
Italy's postwar aims read as strategic gains abroad
Italy seeks the Trentino and Brenner pass plus southern Tyrol and Dalmatian coasts. It aims for Trieste Istria Fiume Zara and Sebenico with Dalmatian islands and Albania protectorate. Italy also demands Asia Minor territories and expansion in Eritrea Tripoli Djibouti and Somaliland.
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Italy
Brenner Pass
Tyrol
Trieste
Istria
Fiume
Zara
Sebenico
Dalmatian Islands
Aviona
Albania
Agesa
Turkey
Adalia St Fronce
England
Asia Minor
Dalmatian
France
Africa
Eritrea
Tripoli
Djibout
French Somaliland
British Somaliland
Red Sea
Romanian moves in Banat spark regional tension
Romania and Serbia clash over Banat as Romanian forces push into the region and Serbian troops enter the area. France sets up a neutral zone to prevent further hostilities amid postwar rearrangements.
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Roumania
Bessarabia
Bucharest
Dobrudja
Bulgari
Danube
Hepsburg
Bukovina
Transylvania
Banat
Serbia
Romannia
Serbia Opposes Habsburg Plans to seize Bosnia and Verzegayina
In the Entente bloc, Serbia resists Habsburg schemata for annexing Bosnia and Verzegayina. The article hints at broader moves toward incorporating territories from the collapsing empire, including proposed links to a Yugoslav state.
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Hapsburg
Bosnia
Verzegayina
So Ode
Entente
Toto Jugu-Slnvia
Bulgaria seeks frontier extensions after capitulation
Bulgaria hopes to gain extensions to its frontiers along the Avgena coast in the south Macedonian region and Thrace as it sues for peace terms.
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Avgena
Fr Thrace
Czecho Slova k ia Constitu tion Claims and Conflicts
The new state of Czecho-Slovakia expands from former Austria Hungary regions including Bohemia Moravia and northern Hungary Slovakia. It faces clashes over Saxony Silesia and Galicia with Poles Roumanians Germans and Magyars as it seeks further southward expansion toward the Danube and the Adriatic.
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Austria-Hungary
Bohemia
Moravia
Hungary
Saxony
German Silesia
Silesia
Galieia
Danube
Adriatic
Global War Peace Terms and Shifts Across Europe Asia
A fragmented report outlines postwar aims by Poland Belgium Japan China and Switzerland. Poland presses three disputed regions including Lemberg and Danzig. Belgium seeks large reparations and territorial changes. Japan offers to return Tsing-Tau while retaining Shantung and Pacific islands. China seeks protection from imperialism and return of Kwantung. Switzerland seeks an outlet to the sea via the Rhine.
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Japan
Tsing-Tau
China
Shantung Peninsula
Pacific
Equator
Northern Europe Power Claims Amid Postwar Debates
Scandinavia discusses Denmark seeking annexation of northern Schleswig with Danish inhabitants. Norway eyeing Spitzbergen interests but not pressing. Sweden seeks union with Finland over Alund island holdings since Russia’s fall.
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Denmark
Schleswig
Norway
Spitzbergen
Sweden
Alund
Finland
Turkish pleas for Constantinople self determination
Turkish liberals urge President Wilson to grant Constantinople self determination after the war. They warn that placing the city under an international regime would sever Turkey's heart and slice its future, arguing for Ottoman control or referendum under the new principles.
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Constantinople
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Ottoman Empire
Lberal
Farm sale near Atlantic nets $400 per acre
John HW Stone sold his 160 acre farm three miles east of Atlantic on the River to River road for $400 an acre. The buyer was Berger Stentsrud, the farm features fine improvements and strong land value in the vicinity.
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Atlantic
Berger Stentsrud
Des Moines
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George D. Dobson
Jamax Nunn
John H. Nunn
Greenwood Park
Shaelsy County
Bart W. Porter
Shelby County Red Cross Chapter
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Harlan
George Jacobson
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Jacobson
Elk Ranch Company
Jackson
Wyo
George J. Anstey & Sons
Cass County
Thomas Tracey
Larence Youtts
Valley Inection
Edward B. Mayer
Iowa City
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Iowe
Tirr
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Peanee
Jacobsen
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Pella Jacobsen
Iowa
Milford
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Donaldean
United States Air Service
Sheldon
Clark County
Story County
Iowa State College
United States
Knute Kepe
Sory County
Iawa Beer Producers’ Association
Agricultural Extension Department
Gliddstone
Auduhon County
Rasmus Willisem
Wilison
Tim
Allogelbar
Lincoln in Illinois: youth tale of the future president
The book Lincoln in Illinois by Octavia Roberts draws on Lester Hornby drawings to recount Abraham Lincoln’s early life. It follows the 1832 voyage of the Talisman steamboat under Lincolns wheel from Beardstown to Springfield, his frontier years at New Salem, and his rise in Illinois politics including defeats and later paths toward the presidency.
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Indy
Anne May Rutledge
Springfield
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Jackson
Old State
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