Word: whitlock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brand Whitlock, Ambassador to Belgium during the war, is to return to America during the summer. He has been writing a novel at a quiet spot near Mentone on the Riviera. Now he expects to settle in Westchester County, N. Y., (near New York City) and busy himself with writing...
...Brand Whitlock, United States Ambassador to Belgium, delivered at the same ceremony the following message in the name of President Harding: "On the happy occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the new library of the University of Louvain, I am glad to join in the congratulations of numberless friends of the University in all lands. The burning of this ancient and distinguished library was, like the burning of the library of Alexandria, an irreparable loss to scholarship; but it is my firm belief that in so far as the monuments of learning and the literary and artistic treasures...
...news that Brand Whitlock is to be displaced as minister to Belgium comes as a grim reminder that political tradition is still rampant. No matter how able a man his successor may be, the act smacks of an antiquated political bogie that dies hard. Mr. Whitlock has given eight years of the most efficient and most self-sacrificing service. Throughout the war he carried on not only delicate relations of the United States as a neutral and as a combatant, but served as well the interests of the other warring nations which were intrusted to him. His humanitarian work outside...