This volume contains all the letters that passed between President
Woodrow Wilson and his close confidant and adviser Herbert Hoover
while the two were participating in the Paris Peace Conference
after the First World War. Wilson headed the American delegation at
that conference, and Hoover was Director General for Relief and
Reconstruction of Europe. Their correspondence deals with some of
the most important events of modern times; it also shows how
policies are formed, how things are done in crises, and how men
manipulate events and each other to attain great ends. The letters
reveal Hoover's anxiety over the efforts of Communists to seize
prostrate Austria, Germany, and Hungary, and they provide details
of the abortive attempt by Hoover and Wilson to stop the civil war
in Russia and to provide food for that starving nation. Wilson
disagreed with Hoover's sharp criticism of the Versailles Treaty.
Earlier they had been as one in their objection to the British and
French food blockade and to Clemenceau's censorship of the Paris
press, his intrigues to block the Russian food mission, and his
attempts to dismember Germany. The book presents fresh insights
into Hoover's views of the League of Nations and international
cooperation in general. Professor O'Brien's introduction details
the organization and procedure of the peace conference and
underscores the herculean tasks of Wilson and Hoover as they
confronted the complex problems of peacemaking. Short commentaries
before individual letters clarify the particular problems under
discussion.
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