File:Trade Delegations Here From Europe in the New York Times on October 13, 1919.pdf

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Thirty-six Delegates Come as the Guests of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The foreign delegation to the International Trade Conference, to be held at Atlantic City, from France, Great Britain, Italy, and Belgium arrived yesterday on the U. S. Army transport Northern Pacific and were taken to the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, where they will remain until Thursday morning. The delegation will spend six weeks in the United States as the guests of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, .making an extensive tour of the principal cities of the country after the conference at Atlantic City is closed. The purpose of the visit of the foreign delegation to this country is a discussion of the re-establishment of normal trade relations between the United States and Europe. It will include such subjects as the rehabilitation of European Industries, the correction of ex-change rates,. the advancement of commercial credits„ and the creation of an international organization of business and trade associations. The conference at Atlantic City, which has been arranged by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, will be attended by more than 4,000 American business leaders representing all branches of industry. There are thirty-six delegates in the party and eleven secretaries. Six delegates came from Great Britain, sixteen from France, seven from Italy and seven from Belgium. The French delegation includes Eugene Schneider, head of the Creusot Iron Works; Baron du Marais, Vice President of the Credit Lyonnais of Paris; Pellerin ct la, Touche, President of the French Line; Albert Tirman, representative of the French Government, with the mission; Andre Homberg, Vice President of the Société Générale de France; Frederic Arthur Waddington, mill owner and we of Roun: Julin Potin, President of Potin et Cie of Paris; Jean Jules Godet, member of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris, and Pesson Didion, engineer of mines and director of the Central Society for Electrical Industry. The British mission include A. Barton Kent, head of the brush business established by his great grandfather 142 years ago. who has been Chairman of the Entente Cordiale since 1902: John Creeley Jenkins, former Premier of Australia, and Marshall Stevens, M.P., one of the founders of the Manchester Ship Canal Corporation. Among the Italian delegates were Commendatore Professor Lernardo D. Attolico, Director General of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce, who was Commissioner of Emigration to the United States in 1907 and Director of Economic Bureaus of the League of Nations in 1010; Dr. Luigi Luiggi, Inspector General of Italian Royal Civil Engineers, and Fernando Quartierit, President of the Italian Chemical Industries. Some of the Belgian representatives in the delegation were Florimond Hankar, Director of the National Bank of Belgium and other large financial and industrial institutions. and Professor Paul J. J. van den Ven, Ph.D., of the University of Louvain, a member of the Belgian peace delegation to Paris and a member of the faculty of Princeton University from 1915 to 1918. Eugene Schneider, the Chairman of the French mission, on behalf of the other delegates from the four allied countries expressed his gratitude to the Chamber of Commerce, which took the happy initiative of asking the representatives of the economic activity of the allied countries to take part in a conference to discuss adequate means of restoring the economic life of the world.

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