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Robert Lansing

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Lansing, Robert 

Bom Oct. 17, 1864, in Watertown, N.Y.; died Oct. 30, 1928, in Washington, D.C. American diplomat. By education he was a lawyer, a specialist in international law.

From 1915 to 1920, Lansing was US secretary of state. Believing that a victory by Germany in World War I would threaten US interests, he advocated direct participation by the USA in the war against Germany. The Lansing-Ishii Agreement of 1917 was a Japanese-American agreement on China. Lansing took part in the Paris Peace Conference of 1919–20.
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It is a fundamental principle," wrote Acting Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt to Secretary of State Robert Lansing on May 1, 1919, "that the foreign policy of our Government is in the hands of the State Department.
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