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...League, it acknowledges that we should be a member of the League, and it proposes an immediate step in the direction of membership. The Jury of Award--consisting of Elihu Root, James Guthrie Harbord, Edward M. House, Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Roscoe Pound, William Allen White, and Brand Whitlock--has endorsed this plan as the best, part- ly because it represents the general opinions expressed by the 22, 156 plans placed before the Jury...
...Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Roosevelt, Chairman; General James Guthrie Harbord, Chief of Staff of the A. E F.; Colonel Edward M. House, familiar of Woodrow Wilson; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Kansas editor; Brand Whitlock, U. S. Minister to Belgium during...
...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...
...HARDIN & SON-Brand Whitlock-Appleton ($2.00). Our former Ambassador to Belgium revisits an Ohio Main Street. His findings are not precisely Sinclair Lewis's, but neither are they those of the local Kiwanis. J. Hardin, grim, Puritanical buggy manufacturer, could not sympathize with his son, Paul's timid reaching-out toward a life a little less dour. The senior Hardin spent his life and himself in the fight for Prohibition-his very iron honesty ruined his buggy-business. Paul was more successful-but his father's spirit conquered in him, at last, when, offered an opportunity...
...Committee of Award, chairmanned by Elihu Root and including Brand Whitlock, Colonel Edward M. House, Major General James G. Harbord, William Allen White, has been considering the plans submitted for over a month. Its final decision is to be made about the first of the year. Then a straw vote of the country will be taken on the chosen plan...