The Inquiry

The Inquiry

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.cite journal
title=The Inquiry: American Preparations for Peace, 1917-1919 by Lawrence E. Gelfand
author=Lindsay Rogers
date=July 1964
volume=54
issue=3
journal=Geographical Review
pages=260–462
]

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

Members of the inquiry, now named American Commission to Negotiate Peace, traveled to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919cite web
url=http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/foreword.html
title=The Inquiry
work=The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996
author=Peter Grose
date=1996
publisher=The Council on Foreign Relations
] , accompanying Wilson aboard the "USS George Washington" to France.

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