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were excluded from the negotiations. At first a "Council of Ten" comprising two delegates each from
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in 145 closed sessions to make all the major decisions to be ratified by the entire assembly. In June 1919, the Allies declared that war would resume if the German government did not sign the treaty they had agreed to among themselves. The government headed by
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