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"Gorodin, Lenin’s agent in China, was alleged to have with him a copy 

of the book published by 

 

 

Col. House, Philip Dru, Administrator and a 

code expert who lived in China told this writer that the purpose of 

having constant access to this book by Gorodin was to use it for 

coding and decoding messages."83

After the Armistice, Woodrow Wilson assembled the American 

Delegation to the Peace Conference, and embarked for Paris. It was, 

on the whole, a most congenial group, consisting of the bankers who 

had always guided Wilson’s policies. He was accompanied by Bernard 

Baruch, Thomas W. Lamont of J.P. Morgan Co., Albert Strauss of J & W 

Seligman bankers, who had been chosen by Wilson to replace Paul 

Warburg on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, J.P. Morgan, and 

Morgan lawyers Frank Polk and John W. Davis. Accompanying them 

were Walter Lippmann, Felix Frankfurter, Justice Brandeis, and other 

interested parties. Mason’s biography of Brandeis states that "In Paris in 

June of 1919, Brandeis met with such friends as Paul Warburg, Col. 

House, Lord Balfour, Louis Marshall, and Baron Edmond de Rothschild."

Indeed, Baron Edmond de Rothschild served as the genial host to the 

leading members of the American Delegation, and even turned over 

his Paris mansion to them, although the lesser members had to rough it 

at the elegant Hotel Crillon with Col. House and his personal staff of 

201 servants.

Baruch later testified before the Graham Committee of the Senate 

Foreign Relations Committee, "I was economic advisor with the peace 

mission. GRAHAM: Did you frequently advise the President while there? 

BARUCH: Whenever he asked my advice I gave it. I had something to