<P> I am leaving Paris, after eight fateful months, with conflicting emotions . Looking at the conference in retrospect, there is much to approve and yet much to regret . It is easy to say what should have been done, but more difficult to have found a way of doing it . To those who are saying that the treaty is bad and should never have been made and that it will involve Europe in infinite difficulties in its enforcement, I feel like admitting it . But I would also say in reply that empires cannot be shattered, and new states raised upon their ruins without disturbance . To create new boundaries is to create new troubles . The one follows the other . While I should have preferred a different peace, I doubt very much whether it could have been made, for the ingredients required for such a peace as I would have were lacking at Paris . </P> <P> On 29 April, the German delegation under the leadership of the Foreign Minister Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff - Rantzau arrived in Versailles . On 7 May, when faced with the conditions dictated by the victors, including the so - called "War Guilt Clause", von Brockdorff - Rantzau replied to Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd George: "We know the full brunt of hate that confronts us here . You demand from us to confess we were the only guilty party of war; such a confession in my mouth would be a lie ." Because Germany was not allowed to take part in the negotiations, the German government issued a protest against what it considered to be unfair demands, and a "violation of honour", soon afterwards withdrawing from the proceedings of the peace conference . </P> <P> Germans of all political shades denounced the treaty--particularly the provision that blamed Germany for starting the war--as an insult to the nation's honor . They referred to the treaty as "the Diktat" since its terms were presented to Germany on a take - it - or - leave - it basis . Germany ′ s first democratically elected head of government, Philipp Scheidemann, resigned rather than sign the treaty . In a passionate speech before the National Assembly on 21 March 1919, he called the treaty a "murderous plan" and exclaimed, </P> <P> Which hand, trying to put us in chains like these, would not wither? The treaty is unacceptable . </P>

Which of the following were terms of the treaty of versailles