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INDEX 



[512 



Ukraine, independence by as- 

 sembly vote, 155. See also 

 Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of. 



Ulimann, Emmanuel von, on op- 

 tion. 163. 



United States, plebiscites, retro- 

 cession of part of EHstrict of 

 Columbia, 117; secession move- 

 ment, 117-123; secession of 

 West Virginia from Virginia, 

 1 19-123, 168, 170. 



Valachia and Moldavia, union 

 on basis of essembly votes, 

 101-106. 



Venaissin. See Avignon and 

 Venaissin. 



Venetia. See Italian States. 



Venezuelan Congress criticises 

 conquest by Chile (1884), 180. 



Venice. See Italian States. 



Verdun, annexation by France 

 (1552) with appeal to "free 

 vote of the people," 50-53. 



Versailles, Treaty of, cessions 

 by Germany to be dependent 

 on plebiscites: Eupen and 

 Malmedy, 131-134; Northern 

 Schleswig, 138-139. 199-201 ; 

 parts of provinces of East and 

 West Prussia and Upper Si- 

 lesia, 140-142; Saar Valley, 



plebiscite to decide sovereignty 

 after 15 years of foreign rule, 

 I34~i38; results of plebiscites 

 held in East and West Prussia 

 and Northern Schleswig, 150 

 (note), 200; cessions without 

 plebiscites: Moresnet, 131-134; 

 Saar Valley, 15 years of for- 

 eign rule without plebiscite, 

 134-138; parts of provinces of 

 Pos€n, Vv'est Prussia, Pom- 

 mern, 140-142; Danzig, 142- 

 144; Memel, 144-145; part of 

 province of Silesia, 145; Kreis 

 Leobschiitz, conditionally. 145; 

 German colonies, 145-146; Al- 

 sace-Lorraine, 146-149, 152- 



153- 

 Vicenza. See Italian States. 

 Villafranca, Preliminary Peace 



of. 87. 

 Voltaire, on plebiscite, 23-24. 



Willoughby, on cession. 29 

 (note) ; on popular consent in 

 American constitutional law, 

 185-188. 



Wilson, Woodrow. on self-de- 

 termination, 176-177. 



Worms. See Mainz. 



Zurich, Treaty of, 92, 98. 



