San Remo conference The San Remo conference was an international
meeting of the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council, held in
Sanremo, Italy, from 19 to 26 April 1920. It was attended by the
four Principal Allied Powers of World War I who were represented
by the prime ministers of Britain (David Lloyd George), France
(Alexandre Millerand) and Italy (Francesco Nitti) and by Japan's
Ambassador K. Matsui. The precise boundaries of all territories
were left unspecified, to "be determined by the Principal Allied
Powers" and were not finalized until four years later. The
conference's decisions were embodied in the stillborn Treaty of
Sèvres (Section VII, Art 94-97). As Turkey rejected this treaty,
the conference's decisions were only finally confirmed by the
Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922, and when
Turkey accepted the terms of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. During
the meetings of the "Council of Four" in 1919, British Prime
Minister Lloyd George stated that the McMahon-Hussein
Correspondence was