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Mr. Paxton Hibben, prominent as a journalist, soldier, and as a member of the diplomatic service, will address the members of the Liberal Club at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon on various phases of present conditions in Russia, from whence he has recently returned. After receiving his A.M. degree from the University in 1904, Mr. Hibben spent one year in the Law School. Four years later he was appointed attache to the American Embassy in Petrograd. Later he was a member of the American legations in Columbia, Chili, and at the Hague.
From 1914 until 1917, when he entered the United States army, he served in all the warring countries as war correspondent for Colliers, the Associated Press, and the Leslie Weekly. After being discharged from the army in 1919, Mr. Hibben served on a several Russia relief Commissions. He has been decorated with Russian Chevelier Order of St. Stanislas, the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure, and is a member of the Greek Officer Order of the Redeemer.
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