
Celebrating a state of peace in 1919
World War I may have ended on November 11, 1918, but the formal signing of a peace treaty between the Allied Nations and Germany took more than six months to negotiate. As thousands of service men and women who had survived the “Great War” were returning to Australia from the terrible conflict there was intense interest in the peace talks and the penalties to be imposed on the defeated enemy. In the early months of 1919 reports on the progress of negotiations and the opinions