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A Journalist's Diplomatic Mission : Ray Stannard Baker's World War I Diary /
At the height of World War I, in the winter of 1917-1918, one of the Progressive era's most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker (1870-1946), set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent for the New Repu...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2012]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: REPORTING ON PUBLIC OPINION IN GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND ITALY; 1. I Sail for England; 2. London, and an Airplane Bombing; 3. First Impressions of British Opinion; 4. I Dine with Ambassador Page; 5. Arthur Henderson and Other Labour and Radical Leaders; 6. Great Battle in France; 7. I Meet a Saint; 8. The Peace-by-Negotiation Movement; 9. Lord Mayor's Dinner; 10. London in War Time; 11. A Conversation with Bertrand Russell; 12. The "Other Half" and the War; 13. The Snowdens and the "I.L.P."
- 14. The House of Lords Solemnly Discusses the War15. I Gather a Variety of British Opinions; 16. I Visit Lord Charnwood at Lichfield; 17. A Crucial English By-election; 18. Sir Horace Plunkett and the Irish Problem; 19. Ulster Speaks Its Mind; 20. A Visit to the Pages at Sandwich; 21. A Lull in the Battle; 22. Wilson's Leadership in Europe; 23. I Sit Between the Lion and the Unicorn; 24. English Leaders and English Ideas; 25. I Attend a Dramatic Meeting of the Labour Party Conference; 26. I Attend an American Baseball Game; 27. In London Again; 28. The British Sense of Superiority
- 29. My Summaries of the Situation in England and France After Five Months30. I Went Today to Dorking; 31. Attitude of French Radicals Toward the War; 32. I See Something of the War in Italy; 33. The Piavi River Front and the War in the Alps; 34. A Great Day in War-Shattered Venice; 35. Great News in Milan and a Great Strike; 36. Rome Again; 37. Reverberations in Rome of Wilson's Responses to Germany; 38. I Visit the Radical Leaders of Rome; 39. My Report to the State Department from Italy; 40. Night Train to Paris; PART II: THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE; 1. I Arrive at Paris
- 2. The Heart of Wilson's Problem in Europe as I Saw It3. The Armistice in Paris; 4. I Return to Italy; 5. Genoa and Florence; 6. I Return to Paris; 7. Wilson's Arrival in Paris; 8. The King of Italy Visits the President; 9. I Meet One of the Wisest Americans in Paris; 10. Problems of Publicity at the Paris Peace Conference; 11. Return Voyage to Paris with the Presidential Party; 12. The President Throws a Bombshell; 13. Efforts to Wear the President Down; 14. The President Falls Ill; 15. Northcliffe Attacks Lloyd George and Wilson; 16. Great Battle over Japanese-Chinese Problems
- 17. May Day Riots in Paris18. Greatest Day, So Far, of the Peace Conference; 19. I Fly to Brussels; 20. Jokers in the Treaty; 21. Flooded with German Responses to Treaty Provisions; 22. Several Important Conversations with the President; 23. First Meeting of the Entire American Peace Commission; 24. Europe Awakening to the Realities; 25. Problem of Germany's Admission to the League; 26. Wilson as a Story Teller; 27. Breathless Final Days; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z