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to the Quai d'Orsay when a difficult question needed elucidation 

 in commission. Two sets covering critical points in the Adri- 

 atic controversy were set up in the study of the President's 

 mansion in Paris, in order that he might make constant use of 

 them in his negotiations over that thorny question. In these 

 and other ways the geographic models served the statesmen of 

 the world on many occasions. 



These pages make no pretense at cataloguing all the uses of 

 geography in the peace negotiations; rather they aim merely 

 to give the reader some conception of the scope and variety 

 of that usefulness. Certainly no other peace conference in 

 the world's history ever witnessed such an effort on the part 

 of the negotiators to make their territorial decisions geo- 

 graphically sound. And while political considerations some- 

 times overthrew both science and common sense, when the true 

 inside story of the conference is written it will be found that 

 the territorial experts had much to say about the location 

 of Europe's new boundaries; and that in making peace, as 

 in making war, the science of geography played a most im- 

 portant role. 



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