Protecting the German Diplomats
During the Versailles Treaty Conference

The overwhelming hostility toward Germans on behalf of the French created the need to post palisades and other assorted defensive measures around the hotel where the German diplomats were housed during their attendance at the Versailles Treaty conference. The Paris police hoped that such a steps would serve the dual purpose of keeping the diplomats in as much as it would provide a wall to keep hostile natives out.
A photo of the barricade illustrates the article.