Being too tall for his weight. he was rejected for military service in World War I and became a special assistant in the State Department in 1917. Few persons have had such a variety of experience to equip them for the duties which Chris Herter is now called upon to assume. He negotiated a prisonerof -war agreement with Germany after World War I. He was Secretary to our Peace Mission in Paris in 191819. In 1919. he became Secretary to the American Relief Administration under Herbert Hoover. He became Executive Secretary of the European Relief Council. He fought communism with food for refugees and prisoners of war. When Herbert Hoover became Secretary of Commerce in 1921. Chris Herter was chosen as his assistant.
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