Council of Ten

European history

Also known as: Supreme Council

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In Paris Peace Conference
…constitute a Supreme Council, or Council of Ten, to monopolize all the major decision making. In March, however, the Supreme Council was, for reasons of convenience, reduced to a Council of Four, numbering only the Western heads of government, as the chief Japanese plenipotentiary, Prince Saionji Kimmochi, abstained from concerning…
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In 20th-century international relations: Hammering out the treaty
…five leading victors created a Council of Ten—the heads of government and their foreign ministers. But even this proved unwieldy, and since Italy and Japan tended to focus on questions of local interest, major decisions were hammered out in private by an informally constituted Big Three: Wilson, Lloyd George, and…
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