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...national record has been one of forward-looking Republicanism. He supported every war measure and was a member of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. He led the fight for the return of the American troops sent to Siberia. He fathered laws for the amelioration of wage conditions among Federal employees. He has been one of the leading opponents of the League of Nations, and was the only man in the nation with the courage to follow President in his tour of the country and present the arguments against the League...
...first opportunity to study conditions in Russia in 1916-17, when he was attached to the American Embassy in Russia and was entrusted with the interests of the Austrian and German prisoners in the southeast of Russia. After the Revolution of 1917 he left Russia by way of Siberia, studying the country as he travelled through it. On his return to America he received a commission in the United States Army as a captain, attached to the General Staff in Washington in the Russian Political Division of Military Intelligence. After the Armistice he went to the Peace Conference with...
Through his service in 1916-1917 as special assistant attached to the American Embassy in Petrograd to look after the interests of the German and Austrian prisoners in Southeast Russia, his journey out of Russia by way of Siberia, his term as a captain attached to the General Staff in Washington in the Russian Political Division of Military Intelligence, as an expert on the Russian situation with the American legation in Paris after the armistice, and finally as assistant to William C. Bullitt, who was in charge of the "Bullitt Commission to Russia," Mr. Pettit is widely recognized...
...clock and will consist of short talks by six delegates from different colleges who were at the Des Moines Convention and an address by Major H. A. Newman, head of the largest hospital in South China and for the last two years engaged in Red Cross work in Siberia...
...this enormous bill 80 per cent, was distributed between January 1 and June 30, 1919. Soldiers in Siberia, Belgium, France, Italy, England and the Near East all received their quota of the supplies...