ABSTRACT
The Supreme Economic Council of the Allied and Associated Powers, which, under the stimulus of its very active and able chairman, Robert Cecil, had already forwarded for consideration various resolutions on immediate questions such as supply of raw materials to Czechoslovakia and Poland. Among the extraneous subjects which had to be cleared up in part before the German Treaty could be signed, by far the most important was the Italian claims but, as these claims had become complicated by an invitation by the Big Three to Venizelos to send troops to Smyrna, it will be convenient to turn first to the Greek episode. The Austrian delegates, though allowed a little more freedom than was accorded to the Germans, were kept waiting a long time by the Council of Four. By a tremendous effort a simulacrum of a Treaty was produced for presentation to the Austrian Delegation with exactly the same ceremony and procedure as in the case of the Germans.
