What followed showed Whitlock was right.

To-day from Brussels he is directing the efforts of the rest of the world to save the people of that city and of Belgium from death by starvation.

In this he has the help of his wife, who was Miss Ella Brainerd, of Springfield, 111, M.Gaston de Levai, a Belgian gentleman, and Miss Caroline S.Larner, who was formerly a secretary in the State Department, and who, when the war started, was on a vacation in Belgium.

She applied to Whitlock to aid her to return home; instead, much to her delight, he made her one of the legation staff.

His right-hand man is Hugh C.Gibson, his first secretary, a diplomat of experience.