The Inquiry
The Inquiry was a study group established in September 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 offices of the American Geographical Society of New York.[1]
Mezes's senior colleagues were geographer Isaiah Bowman, journalist Walter Lippmann, historian James Shotwell, and lawyer David Hunter Miller.[1]. Others included James Truslow Adams and Walter Weyl.
Members of The Inquiry, later renamed the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, traveled to the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919[2], accompanying Wilson aboard the USS George Washington to France.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lindsay Rogers (July 1964) The Inquiry: American Preparations for Peace, 1917-1919 by Lawrence E. Gelfand. . pp. 260–462
- ↑ The Inquiry. The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996. The Council on Foreign Relations.
