New-York tribune., 1918-12-04

American and from varions E,ror,,
countries affected by the war In or'
ger 10 give high value to anv st.to.
ment OF fact the inquiry has been nn-
pothesis. p'''''e"i ny
Some of the Specialists
Ihe inquiry has had a personnel of
about i5o people. Among them are:
Director. DR.. s. H. Mczes. president
OF the College of the City of New
Chief territorial specialist. Dr..
Isaiah Bowman, director of the Amcri-
can Geographical Society.
Specialist on economic resources,
Allyn A. Young, head of the depart
ment OF economies at Cornell Univer-
sity.
Charles II. Haskins, dean of the
Graduate School of Harvard University,
specialist on Alsace- Lorraine and Bel
GUM.
"Clve Day head of economics de-
partment at Yale, specialist on the
"W. +. I.unt. professor of history,
Have rford College, specialist on North
ern Italy.
"R. H. Lord, professor Of history at
Harvard, specialist on Russia and Po-
land.
"Charles Seymour. professor of his
tory at Yale, specialist on AUSTRIA
Hungary.
"W. l.. Westermann. professor Of
history at the University of Wisconsin.
specialist on Turkey
&c. l.. Beer, formerly of Columbia
University, specialist on colonial his
tory.
"Cartographer, Mark Jefferson. pro-
lessor of geography, Michigan State
Normal College.
Roland b. Dixon, professor of eth
biography at Harvard
"ln addition there are eleven assist
ants and four commissioned officers
of the Military Intelligence Division
assigned to the inquiry for special
problems on strategy, economies, eth
biography. These officers are Major ID.
w. Johnson, Columbia Universitv:
Major Lawrence Martin, University of
Wisconsin; Captain W. c. Farabee. the
University Museum, Philadelphia. and
Captain Stanley Hornbeck. author of
Contemporary Politics in the Far
Sail With President
"The above named together with
map makers and other assistants. will
sail with the Peace Commission on the
George Washington.
In its latest stages, the inquiry had
ITS work centered on territorial mat
ters. SO that all the specialists going
abroad are territorial specialists. eX-
cept the direct representatives of the
state Department: Part of the force
IN international law are al ready in
Europe, including David H. Miller.
CHAIRMAN OF the Law Committee of the
State Department..
Every important nationality of FIJI
rope and Western Asia had Representa-
tives hero for conference with the in
curry. Authorities native to the af-
fected countries in Europe have lent
their aid and have placed at the dis
posal OF the inquiry all sources of in
formation in their native languages.
These. together with numerous secret
documents and much information hith-
erto unavailable to scholars, has re-
suited in a photographic collection al
together unique and valuable. 1t will
become part Of the records of the State
Department.
The Fields Covered
Passing by the countless details, the
inquiry, broadly, has covered the fol-
lowing fields:
81 Political History-(a) Historic
rights, including suffrage laws: (b)
religious development and customs; (c)
rights of minority peoples in composite
populations; subordinate nationaities.
"2. Diplomatic History.-(a) Recent
. political history related to dispomacy,
treaties, etc (b) Public law. constitu-
tional reforms
"3. International Law.-(a) To lay
the groundwork toward bringing the
subject up to date. (b) Study of
treaty texts since the beginning Of
the war. (c) Geographical interpreta-
tions of problems of territorial waters,
frontiers, etc
"a. Evonomics. - (a) international:
Raw materials. coaling stations, cable
stations. portf works, tariffs and Gus
toms unions free ports, open ports
(b) Regional: Industrial development,
self-sufficiency. tariff routes in rela-
tlon to boundaries and material re-
sources, including food. minerals, water
power, fuel. etc.
IS. Geography:-(a) Economic xeog-
raphy b Political geography.
"s. Photography. - (a) Strategic
frontiers (b) Topographic barriers
81. Catographv. Maps TO illustrate
on peace problems. such as (a) Peo-
pies, (b) Minerals. (c) Historical limits.
d. Railways and trade routes. (e)
Crops and livestock, (f) Cities and In
drstrial centres, ca Religious
"S. Education.-(a al Status in colonial
possessions. q In backward states.