Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Volume XI

Paris Peace Conf. 184/160

Organization of the Commission to Negotiate Peace, August 1, 1919

August 1, 1919

Commissioners Plenipotentiary and Personal Staffs

Honorable Frank L. Polk, Under Secretary of State of the United States.

• Confidential Secretary: G. Howland Shaw, Secretary of Embassy.

Honorable Henry White

• Aide and Secretary: Lieutenant R. E. Condon, U. S. A.

Honorable Edward M. House

• Diplomatic Assistant: Mr. Arthur Hugh Frazier, Counselor of Embassy.

General Tasker H. Bliss, U. S. A.

• Staff:
  • Colonel S. D. Embick, U. S. A.
  • Colonel U. S. Grant, 3rd, U. S. A.
  • Colonel W. S. Browning, U. S. A.

Secretariat

Secretary General, Mr. Joseph C. Grew, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

• Assistant: Captain George A. Gordon, U. S. A.
• Confidential Secretary: Mr. Albert Ward.

Diplomatic Secretary: Mr. Leland Harrison, Counselor of Embassy.

• Secretaries:
  • Mr. J. K. Huddle, Consular Assistant
  • Mr. R. B. Macatee, Consular Assistant
• Liaison with Secretariat General:
  • Captain L. H. Paul Chapin, U. S. A.
  • Mr. Charles H. Russell, Second Secretary of Embassy.

Steering Committee:

• Colonel U. S. Grant, 3rd, U. S. A.
• Dr. James Brown Scott
• Mr. Allen W. Dulles

Naval Section: Rear Admiral H. S. Knapp, U. S. N.

Field Observers and Liaison with Enemy Delegations:

• Major Royall Tyler, U. S. A.
• Captain Hayford Peirce, U. S. A.

Communications: Lieutenant N. E. Wharton, U. S. N.

Medical Dispensary:

• Commander Allen D. McLean, U. S. N.
• Captain W. C. Whitmore, U. S. A.

Radio News Service: Mr. C. M. Willoughby.

Diplomatic, Political and Territorial Division:

• Mr. Ellis Loring Dresel, Counselor of Embassy.

  a) Austria Hungary and Poland
  Mr. Allen W. Dulles, Second Secretary of Embassy.

  b) Italy and Adriatic
  Dr. D. W. Johnson

  c) Chinese Loans
  Mr. H. D. Marshall

  d) Germany and Northern Neutrals
  Mr. E. L. Dresel.

  e) Near East
  Mr. W. H. Butler
  Mr. L. H. Gray

• Drafting Officer, Mr. S. Y. Smith.

Technical Advisors

Economic Commission:

• Mr. Frederick K. Nielsen
• Lt. E. Kilpatrick, U. S. A.

International Law Section:

• Dr. James Brown Scott
• Mr. H. G. Crocker

Editing Committee: Mr. Lester H. Woolsey, Solicitor for the Department of State.

Administrative Officers

Executive Officer: Mr. Wm. McNeir, Chief of Bureau of Accounts of the Department of State

Chief Clerk: Mr. Charles B. Welsh

Hotel Managers:

• Mr. George P. DuBose
• Mr. Harry R. Young

Disbursing Officer: Mr. Wm. McNeir

Index and Files: Mr. A. A. Chenay

Translation Bureau: Mr. Walter Peirce.