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Later still he formulated a demand that "the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea be declared closed zones, with Russia having the right to fortify herself to the limit within both seas and being allowed a tonnage equal to Great Britain's under the Washington terms...
...them to give good interviews. In 1916 'he returned to America and tried to be Treasurer of The New York Times, but the cor- respondent-business, the desire to be where things were going on, was in his blood. In May, 1917, he sailed for Europe on the Baltic, with General Pershing. He had a commission as correspondent for the Times, which after a bit was made a roving commission. He wandered over Europe cultivating friends and harvesting interviews* in a way that was the envy of many less gifted correspondents. Pershing, Lloyd George, Foch, Northcliffe, Joffre, Clemenceau, King...
Brand Whitlock, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium during the War, was invited to preside over a neutral commission which is to disentangle the Memel controversy. Memel, a port on the Baltic Sea, was transferred to the Allied and Associated Powers by the Treaty of Versailles and subsequently awarded to Lithuania (after Lithuania had taken it). The Lithuanian Government, however, refused to ratify the agreement of a convention framed to regulate the future of the seaport. Negotiation with the Council of Ambassadors failed and the question was finally referred to the League...
...measure against alleged plundering by expeditions of British and Norwegian fishers in the Baltic and of Japanese in the Pacific, M. Leon Trotzky, Bolshevik War Lord, requested the Central Executive Committee to create with all possible despatch "a real fighting Navy, efficient even if small...
...British Empire; Richard Heath Dabney (Virginia) Minor European States; William Stearns Davis (Minnesota) France and Belgium; Charles W. Hackett (Texas) Mexico and Central America; Albert How Lybyer (Illinois) Turkey and the Near East; Frederic A. Ogg (Wisconsin) Eastern Europe and the Balkans; Alexander Petrunkevitch (Yale) Russia and the Baltic States; William R. Shepherd (Columbia) Germany and Austria; Lily Ross Taylor (Vassar) Italy; Payson J. Treat (Stanford) the Far East and Africa...