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KIBBEN, PAXTON PATTiSON (Dec, 5,

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in lu»li;i*ujH*!K tt»J,» the eldest child
t»f Thimuo i-'ufirkrn ;iiti| Jtsumie Merrill *Ki*t*
duw I Hthbrii. I If was graduatci! from I'rince-
tMjj in I*J*M, tn«4 htn master's deRiir at Harvard
iit |tx».|, ;iti'I l**x-w flu* Mwly t»f law, In njoj
f'rrsjtlt'itt Jki*MM'\rh i'.iihr»| hint to In4 appointed
third m'rH.try *>f the* rtnha^y :it Si. iVtmhurg.
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\Vi»r hr h.i*I rlurei* ui the intrrc^t^ of
IiriutncrH in Kti^f.i, On July iH, ifiofi, lu*
to M?x!ni ;i»» HrtrtJiitJ »*t-crH;*ry, In thi?* year he*
wn?i atlnttiirtt tu )*r;U'ticr nt the tor of the su*
prrnr court **f liuli»in^ In Junr J«H* he was
ujipuimrti H*crrfary «{ the L'uitrd Slaten Irga-
tbn at Hi^titl Ki^htrrn munthn liter he was
matlr ^crrt^ry wf the IrKatitm to the Nctiicrland*
ami LtiKrmiiimrtf, While at The HaKUi*. he acted
on lirhaK of the I'nited Staler as $eerrtary of the
international tribunal in the Yenrzurlan arbitra-
titm. Sept, alUOct, 25, IQID, In Srptemlier 1911
h«* wa« hunurary ilrlrf;air to the adjourned meet-
inK of the tntrrnational CuiiRrw* for thr purpose
of proniolini; uniform Irgi^lation concerning H»
ter» of exchange. On Feb. I, tqi& he was ap-
pointed Mcvrrtary of the legation in Chile, In the
lame year be reiiprd his diplomatic post in or*

dor to return to America and aid in Theodore
Kcxisfvdfs campaign for the presidency.

Two years later, at the suggestion of Albert ]L
Hcveridge ji/.tr; 1, who was himself running for
.senator,, Hihben ran for CunKress <m the Pro*
gresMve ticket, but was defeated. The war in
Europe having begun, he went with Hevcridge
to (lerniany, where he wrote unsigned articles
fur Collier's Weekly, Early in 1915 he became
a staff correspondent for the AssociaUn! Press*
and shortly thereafter was sent to Greece* King
Omstantine, he discovered, wnn unwilling to join
the Allies without gunrantevs of territorial in-
tegrity which they, enmeshed in secret treaties,
were unable to give- 11 ibben tott! the truth about
the situation until, as the Allied hold on (ireece
tightened, his dispatches were interceptetl am!
the Associated I'rcs?; recalled him After his re-
turn he wrote ami lectured on Greece, and prc»
pared his book, fum/ciif/i'ii? / fl»id the Greek
/Vtf^/A for publication in the summer of 1917,
At that time, however, the Allies were about to
depose Cunstantine, and bemuse of official inti-
mations that the book would be untimely, it was
postponed. It appeared in 1920—a vigorous in*
tlictnii'ut of Allied Balkan policy*

Hibben joined the army in i«;J7, was sent to
Camp Grant, and, in 1918, to France* lib most
important service there was in the Historical
Section, where he helped to compile a history of
American participation in the War; and later, in
the office of the inspector general, where he as*
stated Gen, John J, Bradley in an invest igation
of the Welfare Societies, He was discharged in
August IQIQ, with the rank of captain, and was
sent on a special military mission to Armenia,
He returned to America in April J92&

In July 1931 he went to Russia for the Near

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