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Document 2Source: Report of the Commission to Determine War Guilt, May 6, 1919.
On the question of the responsibility of the authors of the war, the Commission, after having examined
a number of official documents relating to the origin of the World War, and to the violations of neutrality
and of frontiers which accompanied its inception, has determined that the responsibility for it lies wholly
upon the Powers which declared war in pursuance of a policy of aggression, the concealment of which gives
origin of this war the character of a dark conspiracy against the peace of Europe.This responsibility rests first on Germany and Austria, secondly in Turkey and Bulgaria. The responsibility
is made all the graver by reason of the violation by Germany and Austria of the neutrality of Belgium and
Luxembourg, which they themselves had guaranteed. It is increased, with regard to both France and Serbia,
by the violation of their frontiers before the declaration of war.Document 3Source: The Covenant of the League of Nations, The Versailles Treaty, 1919.The high contracting parties, In order to promote international cooperation and to achieve international
peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war by the prescription of open, just and
honorable relations between nations by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as
the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect
for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized peoples with one another Agree to this Covenant of
the League of Nations.