After the revolution von Bernstorff in March, 1919, was made chairman of the Foreign Office Committee to compile the material for the German delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference, Four months later he became active in polities as a member of the Democratic Party, which sent him to the Reichstag in. 1921, and he became an enthusiastic supporter of the idea of Germany becoming a member of the League of. Nations Society. In 1922 he was named Vice-President of the International Convention of National Societies Favouring the League. This work so engrossed von Bernstorff, that he declined in December, 1924, to be a candidate for re-election to Parliament, Since 1926 he was several times chairman of the German delegation to the League of Nations disarmament meetings:
Count von Bernstoff was born November 14, 1862, in London. There his father, Albrecht von Bernstorg, a Mecklenburg moble-man, represented Prussia first as Minister and then as Ambassador. After spending his childhood years in London, the son was sent to high school at Ratzeburg in Holstein. In 1881 he joined the artillery, serving as an officer until 1889 when he joined the diplomatic service.
During the next thirteen years he filled posts at Constantinople, Belgrade, Dresden, St. Petersburg and Munich. In 1902 he went to London as Counsellor of the Embassy and for four years later was transferred to Cairo as Minister from where he was transferred to Washington as Ambassador in 1908.
He married Jeanne Luckemeyer, member of a wealthy New York family, by whom he had a son and two daughters, The latter became the wives of Counts von Pourtales and von Loewenstein.
Although an aristocrat ani member of an ancient and distinguished noble family, Count von Bernstorft was at the same time regarded as a political democrat. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the political concepts of Woodrow Wilson. n his return to Germany in 1917 the Foreign Office desired him to give his views before the General Staff of the Army, but General Ludendorff declined to receive him on the grounds that he was too "red."
Mr. Saburo Kurusu, Japanese Ambassador to Belgium.
Mr. Kurusu is considered to belong to the pro-Democracy school of Japanese diplomats and his appointment, it was pointed out, would again denounce the radical Japanese Army clique which insisted on a military alliance with the European Axis until the signing of the Russo-German nonaggression pact was announced in Awk. United Press
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