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StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0174Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is a large gathering of people seated at multiple tables, the Peace Conference, inside a large room, several chandleirs hang from the ceiling. Above the image "W278 (Star)" is printed, below the image "18778 A Plenary Session of the Peace Conference, in Building of French Foreign Office on the Quai D'Orsay, Paris." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
18778
PLENARY SESSION OF PEACE CONFERENCE
Here we witness one of the most impresive assemblages of modern times. Before us in this magnificent chamber sit statemen, diplomats, ministers, politicians, delegates from allied countries in every part of the world; men of dieverse personalities, representing every shade of opinion. They have met to establish what the world hopes will be the basis of a lasting peace. Here sit some of the foremost figures of our times - Clemenceau, Lloyd George, President Wilson, the trio whose words carry the most weight; Orlando Venizelos - the great statesman from Greece, delgates from faraway China and Japan, from Australia, Canada, South America, from every one of the 28 nations allied against Germany and Austria. From the welter of their conflicting national interest they hope by compromise and concession to reach a lofty common aim, a just peace for all nations. As we now know, but parital success has attened their efforts - the Peace Treaty has become a compromise, dictated by force of circumstances, and satisfactory to but few. Yet in its observance lies the hope of the world.
Daily, for months, these men met in the Palce des Affaires Etrangeres, or Foregin Office, on the Quai d'Orsay, Paris. Hanging on the outskirts of this august assemblage were ucrowned rulers, speculators, would-be statesmen and politicians hoping to snatch something for themselves from the redistribution of a world.
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