Temps_, May 23, 1919. It is an adaptation of the
inscription over the Pantheon, "Aux grands hommes, la Patrie
reconnaissante."

[47] _The Daily Mail_, April 25, 1919 (Paris edition).

[48] In Germany.

[49] General Petain is said to have rejected the suggestion.

[50] Cf. _Bulletin des Droits de l'Homme_, 19eme annee, p. 461.

[51] It was either Friday, the 4th, or Saturday, the 5th of July.

[52] At the end of August, 1919.

[53] One delegate from a poor and friendless country had to take the
maps of a rival state and retouch them in accordance with the
ethnographical data, which he considered alone correct.

[54] _L'Homme Enchatne_, December 14, 1914.

[55] "With its causes and objects we have no concern." Speech delivered
by Mr. Wilson before the League to Enforce Peace in Washington on May
24, 1916.

[56] The testimony of a leading French press organ is worth reproducing
here: "La situation du President Wilson dans nos democraties est
magnifique, souveraine et extremement perilleuse. On ne connait pas
d'hommes, dans les temps contemporains, ayant eu plus d'autorite et de
puissance; la popularite lui a donne ce que le droit divin ne conferait
pas toujours aux monarques hereditaires. En revanche et par le fait du
choc en retour, sa responsabilite est superieure a celle du prince le
plus absolu. S'il reussit a organiser le monde d'apres ses reves, sa
gloire dominera les plus hautes gloires; mais il faut dire hardiment que
s'il echouait il plongerait le monde dans un chaos dont le bolchevisme
russe ne nous offre qu'une faible image; et sa responsabilite devant la
conscience humaine depasserait ce que peut supporter un simple mortel.
Redoutable alternative!"--Cf. _Le Figaro_, February 10, 1919.

[57] From Mr. Wilson's address to Congress read on December 2, 1918. Cf.
_The Times_, December 4, 1918.

[58] Cf. Secretary Lansing's evidence before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, _The Chicago Tribune_, August 27, 1919.

[59] _La Democratie Nouvelle_, May 27, 1919

[60] _Le Figaro_, March 26, 1919.

[61] Both of them occurred before the armistice, but during the war.

[62] For the accuracy of this and the preceding story I vouch
absolutely. I have the names of persons, places, and authorities, which
are superfluous here.

[63] The Kurds are members of the great Indo-European family to which
the Greeks, Italians, Celts, Teutons, Slavs, Hindus, Persians, and
Afghans belong, whereas the Turks are a bra