Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Albert Cary Coolidge '87 head of the American Commission a Vienna, is on his way to Paris where he will submit the report of the commission and then leave for America. Professor Coolidge was selected, together with Dean C. H. Haskins, Professor R. F. Dixon '97 and Assistant Professor Loren '06 to furnish the American delegation a the Peach Conference with expert information in regard to conditions in the several countries. Before becoming a instructor in the University he was secretary to the American Legation a Vienna, and also to the legation a Petrograd...
...coup de grace to the idea of a united Europe in the Holy Roman Empire and inaugurated an age of sovereign territorial states. The Peace of Utrecht inaugurated an age of commercial and colonial rivalry by express recognition of the principle of the balance of power. The Treaty of Vienna sought to establish a concert of Europe, but with recognition of dynastic interests, it ignored the rising tide of nationalism and democracy. It remained for the present treaty to recognize cultural and economic considerations and self-determination in redefining boundaries; to substitute co-operation for rivalry by placing important ports...
...longest and will probably be concluded in the shortest time of any comparable treaty in modern times. Treaties with which comparison is suggested are those of Westphalia, signed in 1648 after seven years deliberation, those of Utrecht signed in 1713, eighteen months after the preliminaries, and that of Vienna signed June 9, 1815, fourteen months after the first capitulation of Napoleon but while the opposing forces were gathering for the final struggle at Waterloo...
...above, the present treaty is the first to include, extra-European powers. It is also the first general treaty in which English is an official language, a position it shares with French, which was the sole official version of the treaty of Vienna, while the treaties of Westphalia and Utrecht were in Latin...
Other members of the Vienna party are Professor R. J. Kener of Missouri, who has made a special study of Bohemian affairs; C. M. Storey '12, of the Department of Justice, Lieut. Col. Sherman Miles, former attache in the Balkan States; Major Lawrence Martin '06, Captain Nicholas Roosevelt '14, and Lieut. R. C. Foster '11. When Professor Coolidge left this country, F. E. Parker, Jr., '18, accompanied him in the capacity of secretary...