On which committee did Cook serve in Paris?
For Germany
For Czechoslovakia
For Austria
For Turkey
Answer
Cook was appointed as the British representative on the Committee for Czechoslovakia, which was a body of the Paris Peace Conference that met from January to June 1919. The committee's task was to settle the post-World War I peace agreement with the newly established Czechoslovak Republic and determine its borders. Cook played an important role in negotiations and helped draft the final treaty.
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