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The Diplomats	Matthias Erzberger was head of the German Delegation that signed the Armistice in November 1918. He was later murdered by a right-wing extremist group that opposed the Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles. Photo credit.

There were literally thousands of diplomats (and their staffs) participating in the Paris peace process, and below are listed some of the key players in the negotiations. (I will eventually get around to writing up some information on each of them.) Current History (April 1919) ran a short article "Who's Who in the Peace Conference: Brief Biographies of the Delegates Who Are Shaping the Treaty of Peace at Paris" (*.pdf file), including a seating chart. THE BIG FOUR

Woodrow Wilson

Georges Clemenceau

Vittorio Orlando

David Lloyd George

THE LITTLE EIGHT

Nikola Pašić	Eleuthérios Venizélos	Edvard Beneš	Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Jan Christian Smuts	Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk)	Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau	Ho Chi Minh

OTHERS

Louis Botha	King Faisal I of Iraq (Faisal bin Al Hussein Bin Ali El-Hashemi)		Juan A. Buero
King Albert I of Belgiumt	Ion I. C. (Ionel) Brătianu	Ganga Singh of Bikaner (the Maharaja of Bikaner)	King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

FOREIGN SECRETARIES

Robert Lansing

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

Stéphen Pichon

Baron Sidney Costantino Sonnino

STAFF

Colonel House	Maurice Hankey	Paul Mantoux	Eddie Jackson
General Tasker Bliss	General Sir Henry Wilson	Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss
André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu	François Marie Denis Georges-Picot	Henry White	T.E. Lawrence
Gustav Bauer	Dr. Hermann Müller		Matthias Erzberger

HANGERS-ON

Winston Churchill	Theodore Roosevelt
W.E.B Dubois	Marshal Ferdinand Foch

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