ABSTRACT
Donald Hankey had formed a great admiration for Clemenceau during the war, which had enhanced by his leadership at the Preliminary Peace Conference, both in Plenary Session and at the Council of Ten. The Foreign Ministers could hardly reverse a practice that had been deliberately adopted and established as a precedent on many occasions by their chiefs. The short respite from meetings of the Council of Ten from February 18th to 21st was very welcome, for it gave Balfour an opportunity to overhaul own organization, and more important, to hatch out other members of the British and British Empire Delegations and myself new plans for speeding up the work of the Conference. In addition to those eleven commissions and sub-commissions, seven 'territorial committees' had set up since January 29th, all of which, except the Inter-Allied Commission in Teschen and a Polish Affairs Mission, were resident in Paris. They were all due to report to the Council of Ten.
