Incredible original 8.5 x 12.5 commemorative pamphlet issued for the historic signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, which was signed on the front in bold ink—on the very day of the accord—by three prominent Allied leaders: American President Woodrow Wilson, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The signatures of other several key players of the Versailles Treaty are also included: Louis-Lucien Klotz (French finance minister whose job was to negotiate the reparation terms with Germany), Stephen Pichon (French minister of foreign affairs), Henry White (American diplomat), Jules Cambon (French diplomat, who served as chairman of the Council of Ambassadors, which was designed to supervise the application of the Versailles peace agreements), and Sidney Sonnino (Italian statesman who represented Italy alongside Vittorio Emanuele Orlando at the conference; Orlando’s lack of English, along with his weak political position in Italy, allowed Sonnino to take a quite dominant role). This pamphlet is printed across the front, “M. Andre Tardieu,” indicating that this is the personal copy of Andre Tardieu, the three-time Prime Minister of France who served as Georges Clemenceau’s lieutenant in 1919. Tardieu, whose autograph is also present, has dated the upper left corner, “Versailles, 28 Juin 1919”—the day the treaty—and this pamphlet—was signed. In very good to fine condition, with edge toning, folds, and overall light creasing. An astonishing collection of signatures penned on the same day of the momentous signing of the Versailles Treaty, including three of the famed Big Four—the fourth member, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, who was absent on the day of the treaty’s signing, was forced to resign as Prime Minister of Italy just two days earlier. A richly historic and highly desirable multi-signed item related to the most significant treaty of World War I.
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