The Inquiry

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The Inquiry was a study group established in 1917 by Woodrow Wilson to prepare materials for the peace negotiations following World War I. The group, composed of around 150 academics, was directed by presidential adviser Edward House and supervised directly by philosopher Sidney Mezes. The group worked from the premises of the American Geographical Society of New York.[1]

Mezes's senior colleagus were geographer Isaiah Bowman, journalist Walter Lippmann, historian James Shotwell, and lawyer David Hunter Miller.[1]

Members of the inquiry traveled to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919[2], accompanying Wilson aboard the USS George Washington to France.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Lindsay Rogers (July 1964). "The Inquiry: American Preparations for Peace, 1917-1919 by Lawrence E. Gelfand". Geographical Review 54 (3): 260–462. 
  2. ^ Peter Grose (1996). The Inquiry. The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996. The Council on Foreign Relations.


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