Completion of the first Hague Conference, 1929

The French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand watches the Belgian Prime Minister Henri Jaspar, as he signs the Rhineland Agreement, during the first Hague Conference. To the right is the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson. At the first conference in The Hague the United Kingdom, France, the German Empire, Belgium, Italy and Japan negotiated on the evacuation of the Rhineland and the distribution of German reparations to the Allied States. At the end of the conference the German Empire guaranteed the evacuation of the entire Rhineland until 30 June 1930. With it the areas will be evacuated five years earlier than agreed in the Treaty of Versailles

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Agreed Agreement Aristide Briand Distribution Earlier Entire Evacuated Evacuation Guaranteed Hague Henderson Jaspar Negotiated Reparations Rhineland

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