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            <text>&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;BY THE KING.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;A PROCLAMATION.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;GEORGE&lt;/em&gt; R.I.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WHEREAS a Definitive Treaty of Peace between Us and the Associated Governments and the German Government was concluded at Versailles on the Twenty-eighth day of June last: In conformity thereunto We have thought fit hereby to command that the same be published in due course throughout all Our Dominions: And We do declare to all Our loving subjects Our Will and Pleasure that upon the exchange of the Ratifications thereof the said Treaty of Peace be observed inviolably as well by sea as by land and in all places whatsoever: strictly charging and commanding all Our loving subjects to take notice hereof and to conform themselves thereunto accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Given at Our Court at &lt;em&gt;Buckingham Palace&lt;/em&gt;, this First day of &lt;em&gt;July&lt;/em&gt;, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and in the Tenth year of Our Reign.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;GOD SAVE THE KING.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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            <text>This text is taken from a Gazette notice and so it may not reflect the formatting of the original.</text>
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            <text>This was the last time a state of peace was formally proclaimed.</text>
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              <text>Royal Proclamation - Declaring a State of Peace With Germany [1919-07-01]</text>
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              <text>Royal Proclamation of King George V proclaiming a state of peace with Germany at the end of World War I.</text>
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              <text>&lt;span&gt;Recorded in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Gazette (London Gazette)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;, issue 31427&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, July 1, 1919, &lt;a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31427/page/8217"&gt;8217&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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              <text>1919-07-01</text>
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              <text>Jason Loch</text>
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              <text>&lt;a href="https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/582"&gt;Order in Council Directing the Deputy Earl Marshal to Proclaim the State of Peace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/583"&gt;Deputy Earl Marshal's Warrant&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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