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Paris Peace Conference 180.03101/18

Secretary’s Notes of a Conversation held in M. Pichon’s Room at the Quai d’Orsay, Paris, on Monday, January 27th, 1919, at 10:30 a.m.

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B. C. 11

  • Present.—America, United States of: President Wilson, Mr. R. Lansing, Mr. A. H. Frazier, Mr. L. Harrison, Col. R. H. Williams.—British Empire: The Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P., The Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P., Lt. Col. Sir M. P. A. Hankey, K.C.B., Captain E. Abraham, Mr. H. [E.] Phipps.—France: M. Clemenceau, M. Pichon, M. Dutasta, M. Berthelot, Capt. Portier.—Italy: M. Orlando, Baron Sonnino, Major Jones.—Japan: Baron Makino, H. E. M. Matsui, M. Saburi.—Interpreter—Professor P. J. Mantoux.

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Representation at Prince’s Island of the small States in formation, whose territories previously belonged to the Russian Empire

9. Mr. Balfour said that he wished to raise a point which he thought had been settled, but of which he could find no record in the Minutes. He wished to know whether those elements of Old Russia which, we hoped, would succeed in forming se[parate states?] such as Esthonia, Georgia, possibly Russian Armenia and Daghestan, were invited to the meeting on Prince’s Island.

(It was decided … that all such elements, unless expressly excluded, were invited to attend.)

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27 January, 1919.