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Show SEEK PARALLEL TO VERSAILLES Earnest Study at Washington Washing-ton of Historical and Legal Data. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. With President Presi-dent Wilson expected to sail for France within less than two weeks, so far as can be gathered tho personnel of. the American commission which is to represent rep-resent this country at the peace conference con-ference is not complete, even as to its principals, Thfs is believed to be the explanation of the delay In making public pub-lic announcement of the names of the commissioners, which the recent White Houso statement said would bo made "presently." 1 Meanwhile attention is being given to the selection f the secretaries and attaches at-taches of tho American mission and to the collection of the large quantity of historical and legal data, that will be required. re-quired. The 'nearest parallel to tho approaching ap-proaching conference probably is to be found In the famous conference of Vienna of 3814, which gathered to reaiTange Th map of Kurope following Napoleon 'sx downfall. Accordingly, earnest study is being given to the preliminaries leading up to that conference and to its detailed proceedings as far as they have been preserved. The two Hague conferences in and 1907 also developed methods of procedure and a wealth of subjects regarding the ideal relationship of the community of states that would be of assistance in arranging ar-ranging t he. program of proceedings at Versailles. For their special guidance the American commissioners will have at band a vast - amount of information regarding the smaller nationalities of Kurope; tho arbitrary divisions which have been made on that continent in do-fianco do-fianco of racial ties and natural affiliations affilia-tions for purely political reasons, and tho latest conceptions of the present desires de-sires of tho oppressed races, all representing repre-senting the results of close study by some of America's most eminent university univer-sity men, directed by Colonel House. The A merican commissioners In addition ad-dition will have the benefit of exceedingly exceeding-ly detailed and definite inst ructions on every conceivable point. These instructions instruc-tions are. believed to be in preparation now by state department officials. |