[Footnote 108:  The opening of the Dardanelles would have given Russian agricultural products access to the markets of the world and thus have preserved the Russian economic structure.  It would also have enabled the Entente to munition the Russian Army.  With a completely equipped Russian Army in the East and the Entente Army in the West, Germany could not long have survived the pressure.]

[Footnote 109:  German Under Foreign Secretary.]

[Footnote 110:  It was the Wilson Administration’s plan that there should be two peace gatherings, one of the belligerents to settle the war, and the other of belligerents and neutrals, to settle questions of general importance growing out of the war.  This latter is what Colonel House means by “the second convention.”]

[Footnote 111:  Mr. Pleasant A. Stovall, American Minister to Switzerland.]

[Footnote 112:  Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, American Ambassador to Italy.]

[Footnote 113:  Mr. Joseph E. Willard.  American Ambassador to Spain.]