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Edward M. House, Whitney H. Shepardson, Dr. James T. Shotwell, and Prof.
Archibald Coolidge. Great Britain was unofficially represented by Lord Robert
Cecil, Lionel Curtis, Lord Eustace Percy, and Harold Temperley." The May 30 th
meeting was held at the billet of the British delegation and proposed an Anglo-
American Institute of International Affairs -- one branch in London and one in
New York. (74) The New York and London locations were appropriate since
"nearly all of them were bankers and lawyers." (75)
The British moved quickly to establish their branch. (76) The establishment of the
American branch was much slower. When the American delegates got home
their fellow citizens were "absorbed in isolationism and prohibition, throughly
inhospitable to the ideas of the League of Nations." (77)
So far no complete list of the fifty dinner guests has been located. It has been
stated, however: "The twenty-one Americans, who, together with (their 29)
British counterparts, founded in Paris The Institute of International Affairs,
were a diverse group that included Col. Edward M. House, Herbert Hoover,
Gen. Tasker Bliss, Christian Herter, and such scholars as Charles Seymour, later
President of Yale, Professors Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard and James T.
Shotwell of Columbia." (78) There were two camps. One was headed by the U.S.
official negotiators Tasker H. Bliss and Edward House along with advisors
Herbert Hoover and Thomas W. Lamont -- along with their aides. The other
side was composed of the twelve scholars that had served the American
delegation in an advisory capacity. (79) Most of the scholars were from Harvard,
Yale and Columbia. (80)
The returning Inquiry scholars lacked the funds to create the envisioned
American Institute of International Affairs but offered diplomatic experience,
expertise and high-level contacts: "The men of law and banking, by contrast,
could tap untold resources of finance...This was the synergy that produced the
modern Council..." (81) The money to found the CFR came in part from J.P.
Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Bernard Baruch, Otto Kahn, Jacob Schiff
and Paul Warburg. (82)
Another source suggests that the original CFR itself had fund-raising problems:
"They took the name of an organization already in existence. The original
Council on Foreign Relations had been formed in New York in July, 1918, but
in little more than a year had become inactive owing to an inability to raise the
necessary funds. It was with 66 members of this original crowd that the
peacemongers from Paris merged to form the organization we know today." (83)
J.P. Morgan's personal attorney, John W. Davis (and later Republican
presidential candidate), was the founding President of the CFR. Paul Carvath,