The Council on Foreign Relations was formed on May 30 , 1919 .
These scholars then traveled to the Paris Peace Conference , 1919 that would end the war ; it was at one of the meetings of a small group of British and American diplomats and scholars , on May 30 , 1919 , at the Hotel Majestic , that both the Council and its British counterpart , the Chatham House in London , were born .
Council on Foreign Relations