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Title: Exhibition of war portraits : signing of the Peace treaty, 1919, and portraits of distinguished leaders of America and of the allied nations painted by eminent American artists for presentation to the National portrait gallery
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: National Art Committee Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Levy, Florence Nightingale, 1870-
Subjects: Portraits World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York : National Art Committee
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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onference; at present(iq2o), member of the Jugoslav Constituent As-semblv. To be Painted PREMIER VENIZELOS By Jean McLane ELEUTHERIOS K. VENIZELOS. Prime Ministerof Greece; Delegate to the Peace Conference atParis, iQiQ. Born at Murniaes on the Island of Crete, 18O4.Educated at Canea; Syra Gymnasium; University ofAthens; became a lawyer and returned to Crete in188b. Deputy for the District of Kedonia, CretanAssembly, 1888; took part in the Revolution of i8Qb;President of Cretan National Assembly iSqj; Ministerof Foreign Affairs; brought about insurrection whichsevered the dependency of Crete to Turkev, and ledto union with the Greek Kingdom; Prime Ministerof Greece 1005-1915; following the expulsion of KingConstantine in May IQ15 and the entry of Greeceinto the War on the side of the Allies in Novemberiqi6, he again became Prime Minister June 27, 1Q17.and Minister of War, until November 14, iqio,when, after the death of King Alexander, popularvote recalled the exiled King Constantine.
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PRINCE SAIONJI By Charles HopkinsonReserved for the City of Cleveland Prince KIMVIOCHI SAIONJI, Delegate fromJapan to the Peace Conference to Paris iqiq. CreatedMarquis 1884; Prince iqio. Grand Order of Merit. Born at Kyoto, 183Q, and adopted by one of theold and noble families of Fujiwara. At nineteen wasCommander-in-Chief of an Imperial army againstthe Shogunate army; took part in the councils of therestoration; after the war, i8b8, Governor of a pre-fecture; studied in France i8bq-i88o; editor ofLiberty; Vice-Senator 1881; accompanied Prince(then VIr.) I to to Europe and the United States toinvestigate Parliamentary system, 1882; Senator 1883;Minister at Berlin, 1883; Minister to Austria. 1885:Vice-President Code Investigation Commission andVice-Chairman House of Peers, 1893; Privy Coun-cillor, 1894; portfolio of Education in the second ItoCabinet, i8q4-i8Qb; acting Minister of Foreign Af-fairs during Count Mussus illness; Minister of Edu-cation in the third Ito Cabinet; President

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