The United States of America, The British Empire, France, Italy and Japan,
These Powers being described in the present Treaty as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers,
Belgium, China, Cuba, Greece, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, The Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Siam, and Czecho-Slovakia,
These Powers constituting with the Principal Powers mentioned above the Allied and Associated Powers,
of the one part;
And Hungary,
of the other part;
Whereas on the request of the former Imperial and Royal Austro- Hungarian Government an Armistice was granted to Austria-Hungary on November 3, 1918, by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, and completed as regards Hungary by the Military Convention of November 13, 1918, in order that a Treaty of Peace might be concluded, and
Whereas the Allied and Associated Powers are equally desirous that the war in which certain among them were successively involved, directly or indirectly, against Austria-Hungary, and which originated in the declaration of war by the former Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government on July 28, 1914, against Serbia, and in the hostilities conducted by Germany in alliance with Austria-Hungary, should be replaced by a firm, just, and durable Peace, and
Whereas the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy has now ceased to exist, and has been replaced in Hungary by a national Hungarian Government:
For this purpose the High Contracting Parties have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:
The President of the United States of America:
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India:
