Bronius Kazys Balutis
Bronius Kazys Balutis (1880–1967) was a Lithuanian diplomat. He worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania in 1919–1928 and was involved in many of the major international negotiations of the period. He was the Lithuanian envoy to United States (1928–1934) and to the United Kingdom (1934–1967). With the help of his uncle, Catholic priest Juozas Židanavičius, Balutis graduated from a teachers' seminary in Skępe (Poland) and a school for land surveyors in Pskov (Russia). He was drafted for the Russo-Japanese War but decided to escape to the United States where his uncle had founded a Lithuanian parish in Amsterdam, New York. In the United States, Balutis worked as a cartographer at Rand McNally for six years and as editor of the Lithuanian weekly for seven years. He joined the cultural life of Lithuanian Americans and was a member of the (SLA) and chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Patriots (). Balutis started his diplomat career when he was delegated to represent Lithuanian Americans at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The delegation was recalled in December 1919 and Balutis was offered a job dealing with "particularly important matters" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kaunas. Balutis was