The Washington herald., 1918-12-01
PEACE CLERKS
T0HUN PARLEY
NAMED BY U. S.
Secretarial Force to Aid
American Delegates
Announced.
DISCUSS VITAL ISSUES
President Expected to At
tend Only Opening Ses-
sions of Conference.

Inc annOuncemenI OF the Amerl-
can Commission to Negotiate Peace,
the naming Of the secretarial force
and the issue of directions to the
party as to arrangements for their
sailing from New York resulted
yesterday in much freer discussion
of the status OF international prep
arations for the great congress.
1t was established yesterday that
in the exchange of adyices on the
attitude Of the powers on the ques-
tiOn of the number of delegates to
compose the various commissions
the following tacit Understandings
were reached:
Decide Questions at Issue.
Before the Peace Conference is
called an understanding as to what
. fundamental questions are at issue
between the allies and the United
States and the Central Powers is
necessary.
Such an understanding will be
reached by the allies as soon as pos
sibIe after the arrival in Paris Of
the allied delegations and will be
embodied i'm a protocol setting forth
the call to the congress signed by
the ENJOYS OF the nations.
The call to the congress will set
forth not only the questions to be
passed upon. but also will define
the method of procedure. the dates
when sessions will be held and the
rules to govern the office Of the
presiding officer.
Germany and Austria and Turkey
will receive no notification of the
congress until the protocol is
signed.
Join Others in Paris.
This, m brief. is the program as
now outlined and as it will remain
until President Wilson and his fell
delegates join Col. House and
Gen. Bliss in Paris.
One other fact governing the future
action of the nations appears clearly
determined. although no official con-
firnation Is Obtainable. 1t Is gener-
ally presumed that the Congress. un-
der the terms Of the protocol, will
determine only the questions neces-
sary~ TO the contamination of peace
between the. central powers and the
victorious nations. Officiufs~ incline
TO the belief that such questions as
a league OF nations. freedom OF the
seas and other international dictums
viii be reviewed and determined at a
later congress to be held at The
Hague or at some other neutral CEN
ter.
To the minds Of social science stu
dents the ueace congress will be only
a preliminary to the chief business
which civilization faces as the result
of the war. 1t is held that the inter-
national declarations to be forthCom-
ing from the second congress Will
EXPRESS the lessons which humanity
has accepted from the recent grew
some studies and the forthcoming
peace congress will be valuable MAN.
" as it harmonizes the minds OF the
men who undoubtedly will play the
major parts in the secoHd conclaEe'
seeretarinI Force Named.
In addition to Prof. Charles Seymour
and Prot. Give Day, Of Yale UniVer-
sitv. it was announced yesterday that
the secretarial force of the American
commission will consist Of Joseph {.
Grew, Leland Harrison and Philip II.
Patchin. DR.. James Brown Scott and
David Hunter Miller will be technical
advisers in international law and DR..
8 + Mezes will head the specialists
In POLITICAL science and trade rela-
tions who will accompany the COM
mission. William MCNeir will be dis
bursting officer and 5. Y. Smith the
draughting officer.
Mr.. Grew has served at American
embassies in Cairo. Mexico City. Pet
rograd. Berlin and Vienna, from which
last station he was recalled to Wash
ington to become counselor. in Feb
ruary OF last year. Mr.. Harrison has
/. served the State Department at
= tokyo. Pekng. London and Bogota
kand has been concerned with Latin
| American problems in recent years.
{NTr. Patchin has had a wide exper-
Hence as a newspaper man in foreign
Service and has been chief Of the In
tteIIigence Bureau of the State De-
partment
DIR. Scott has been prominently as
sociated with the law schools of the
University of Southern California,
University of Illinois, University OF
Chicago. George Washington Univer-
sitv and the Columbia Law School.
he is secretary Of the Carnegie En-
haowment for international Peace al
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