PEACE IN THEIR TIME Men Who Led Us in and out of War, 1914-1945

463 Pages·1963·10.854 MB·English

by  Emery Kelen

Peace in Their Time

Men Who Led Us In and Out
of War, 1914-194s
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EMERY KELEN
DRAWINGS BY DERSO & KELEN
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N ew York : (uAlfred-A Knopf
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L. C. catalog card number: 63-9152
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK,
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.
Copyright © 1963 by Emery Kelen. All rights re­
served. No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without permission in writing from the
publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief
passages and reproduce not more than three illus­
trations in a review to be printed in a magazine or
newspaper. Manufactured in the United States of
America, and distributed by Random House, Inc.
Published simultaneously in Toronto, Canada, by
Random House of Canada, Limited.
Derso, my shipmate
“I like to think of caricature as no more
nor less than the attempt to read inner char­
acteristics into outward appearances. . . .
The process has had as much to do with
serious portraiture as with comic entertain­
ment. . . . An obsession with personality is
necessary for true caricature”
DRAPER HILL
Contents
I Death of an Archduke 3
II My Personal Revolution 24
m In and Out of the Red 42
IV Schellingstrassey 41 62
V Peace Motions 87
VI The Courting Years I23
VII Locarno Idyll *52
VIII The League Around the League 178
IX Prelude to Pearl Harbor 202
X I Must Reduce Myself to Zero 239
INTERMEZZO 277
XI Summer in Venice 2«3
XII Désarroi de PEsprit 312
XIII The Umbrella Age
325
XIV Early Pioneering Days
355
XV The Home of the Brave
373
XVI Revival in the San Francisco Opera House 400
INDEX follows 444

Peace in Their Time
The author wishes to express his thanks
to E. B. Stone for editorial assistance