ABSTRACT
General Degoutte, Foch's spokesman, claimed that 'the military advisers had from the beginning been in complete agreement as regards the principles advocated'. The changes in the texts, indeed, were so trifling that Clemenceau suggested that they might be discussed at once, one by one. The main criticism came from Leygues, the French Minister of Marine, who was very concerned at a provision that German warships surrendered to the Allies should broken up, instead of being divided among them. The result of this discussion, however, was much more satisfactory than in the case of the military terms for 'the Naval Clauses for the Conditions of peace conference with Germany', approved subject to some reservations, including Leygues' point mentioned. Three points which referred to special committees, namely: the Kiel Canal to the International Ports, Waterways and Railways Commission; the Germanjudic submarine cables to a special ial committee created; and reparation for Allied shipping losses to the Inter-Allied Commission on Reparations.
