Primary Sources -- World War I

Marburg was U.S. minister to Belgium, 1912-1913; vice chair, executive committee, and chair of the Committee on Foreign Organization of the League to Enforce Peace, 1916.

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The author, Andrew Palm, was a Pennsylvania state legislator known to be opposed to war and in favor of international arbitration.

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The author, Robert Lansing, was legal advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I, Secretary of State under Wilson from 1915-1920, and a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Paris, 1919.

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Mantoux was the official interpreter to the Council of Four (Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, and Orlando] and present at all sessions. His is the only record of the first 37 conversations when the great controversies raised by French claims and crucial discussions over the question of reparation by Germany were addressed.