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By Oscar S. Straus
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The memoir recounts a life from immigrant ancestry and a Southern childhood through professional formation in law and business to a long career in diplomacy and public service. It chronicles multiple missions to the Ottoman Empire, a cabinet post as Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and episodes of industrial diplomacy. The author describes personal relations with presidents, diplomats, labor leaders, and foreign rulers, and includes anecdotal vignettes illuminating character and conduct. Later sections examine the approach of global war, involvement in wartime and postwar negotiations including the Paris peace deliberations, and reflections on opportunity, effort, and democratic principles.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Grover Cleveland, A Record of Friendship, p. 33.

[2] Andrew D. White, chairman of the American delegation, states in his diary:

"It now appears (June 9, 1899) that the German Emperor is determined to oppose the whole scheme of arbitration, and will have nothing to do with any plan for a regular tribunal whether as given in the British or the American scheme. This news comes from various sources and is confirmed by the fact that in the sub-committee one of the German delegates, Professor Zorn of Königsberg, who had become very earnest in behalf of arbitration, now says that he may not be able to vote for it. There are also signs that the German Emperor is influencing the minds of his allies, the sovereigns of Austria, Italy, Turkey, and Roumania, leading them to oppose it." (Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, vol. II, pp. 293-94.)

Transcriber's Note:

Punctuation has been normalized and obvious printer errors have been corrected. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been retained.