How Diplomats Make War

BY FRANCIS NEILSON

COMMENTS ON THE FIRST EDITION

NEW YORK TIMES:

“The volume is written with much facility of expression and a large fund of materials. In diplomatic matters it attacks the faults of the ruling class in Great Britain in much the same way as ‘I Accuse!’ attacked those of the corresponding class in Germany.”

THE BOSTON HERALD:

“The real emphasis of the book is on the direful effects of war on the common people—on the men who go forth from their Drum-drudge villages to slay and be slain at command, and on the kind of society that survives after every war to see its civilization thrust back for a century and the solution of its urgent economic problems thrust far forward into the future.”

THE DIAL (Chicago):

“A book which many of its readers will feel has appeared at the moment when it was most required. Amidst the high pressure of emotionalism in which sane judgments are at a premium, and strong opinions on one side or another are regarded as inevitable, it is well to be reminded that quarrels between nations, as between individuals, are usually due to ‘faults on both sides.’”

THE NATION:

“He writes with a bitter pen but has a large historical sweep and much knowledge. . . . As to one of the chief positions of the volume, no American will have any quarrel with the writer of this book. It is that no treaties, forms of international alliance, or agreements with other nations ought to be entered into until they have been submitted to the representatives of the people in Parliament.”

REVIEW OF REVIEWS:

“It is a terrific indictment of the diplomatic game as played by all the great European governments. It shows how dangerous is the survival of a diplomacy that is not only removed from contact with public opinion, but is even beyond the knowledge and reach of the people’s representatives in Parliament.”

THE PUBLIC (Chicago):

“It is a stirring story of the rotten result of a sinister, lying, bluffing diplomacy that despoiled the Continent. And the final chapter, that makes a tremendous appeal for frankness and true democracy, is a notable one.”

PUBLISHED BY B. W. HUEBSCH, NEW YORK