Show MILES PEACE signatures AFFIXED IN FRENCH CAPITAL signalizing SIGNAL IZING FORMAL ENDING OF WAR treaty not only defines terms ot peace but contains league of nations covenant united states alone has not ratified treaty paris ratifications of the treats ot versailles were exchanged and peace between germany 1 ranee great britain and the other allied and assa dated powers with the exception ol 01 the states became effective at 4 ac 0 clock saturday afternoon january 10 ahe outstanding comment on th ceremony i that it leases the united states the only power ulah mas ac chely at war with germany not now on a peace basis that was the not sounded by baron kurt von lersner head of the german peace delegation the i legates assembled in the vate office of the minister of foreign affairs where at a secret session tut protocol was signed at 4 09 0 clock led by clemenceau the delegate then filed into the famous where were held the plenary session 0 the peace conference that fixed the terms of alie treat baron von I 1 ers ner and herr von samson were th last to enter the room and the first to the recording the ex change of ratifications the proceedings began without any ceremony premier lloyd george ol 01 great britain following the german detonates at alie table H was by premier clemen beau of aronce premier attl 0 italy baron katsul the japanese representative and paul the belgians foreign aln ister followed premier clemenceau in the order named then the delegates of the other catl flying signed in alphabetical sequence peaceful relations between germany and most of the nations engaged in alie great war with her are established by the action taken on saturday the peace treat now goes into effect a between germani and those power that have finally ratified it grent abrl tain franco italy japan belgium bolivia brazil guatemala peru poland slam czechoslovakia and uru guay the united slates alone of the big five has not the treaty at the ailt shows formal hav e been alv en bv most of the smaller powers signatory to the treaty chini did not sign the document because of her objections to the shantung proal felons but proclaimed a state of peace with germany the all important ratification bv germany was given on july 9 1919 the day following which president 11 son presented the treats to the united states senate the long interval between the as of alie conference at versailles on january 38 1919 and the signing of alie was mccu pled with almost dally conferences on its provisions among the re presenta alves of the nations which had been at war with germany or had broken relations with her the principal parts being taken by delegates of france great britain italy tapan and the united states the first important work completed was the drawing up of the covenant of the league of na alonsi which was finished on 14 the german representatives re ceded the treaty on ma 7 the treaty not defines the terms of peace with german but contain the league of nations covenant and he provisions for lie international lal or organization alie document comprises fifteen partis with numerous it provided that as MOH an it had been ratified b rma nv and three of the principal allied and associated a of ahe deposit of cation should be drawn up from the date of which the treaty would conic into force as between the which biad ratified it the treaty will enter into force for each other power at the date of the deposit of its catl in october lant a sufficient number of powers had ratified lie arcati to campli with the requirements for ita effectiveness because of the inking of the germeil interned by their and arens biow however and alie failure of the germans to live up to some of the armistice terms the allies on idov ember 1 demanded that before the treaty was put into effect germany should aln a pro ool providing for reparation for alie destruction f alie warship and guaranteeing an the out of the arms alce terms |