Organized Education Series Fourth and entirely new Edition of the Handbook Free to Members of the League on application, The future of the Republic depends upon THOMAS R. MARSHALL Washington, December 8, 1917. Copyright, 1919 BY ARTHUR L. FROTHINGHAM The material in this handbook may be used for patriotic purposes if credit is given to this handbook. From the Estart of President Harry B. HPRE 3-10-30 PREFACE The National Security League, on August 30th, 1917, issued a Handbook of the War by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University and Professor Arthur O. Lovejoy of John Hopkins University. In the introduction it was there stated: "This little book is designed primarily to be of service to those who take part in the campaign of patriotic education initiated by The National Security League. It seeks to set down in brief outline the essentials of that great argument which it will be the work of the participants in the campaign to develop, to enrich with their personal contributions, and to bring home to the mind and conscience of the citizens of the Republic." Over a hundred and fifty thousand copies of that "Handbook" were printed and distributed in three editions. During the Summer of 1918, Prof. C. C. Pearson of Wake Forrest College, made a careful revision of that text, incorporating more recent facts and material. This material was then put in the hands of Prof. A. L. Frothingham, formerly of Princeton University, for reconstruction and completion. The result has been an entirely new work, following somewhat in its arrangement the plan of the original Handbook. The reconstruction gradually grew in its scope. The old Handbook had opened with America's entrance into the war. Since then it had become increasingly important that Americans should know: (1) What were the political conditions and alliances in the old world before the war; (2) Why and how Germany brought on the war; (3) How Germany conducted the war before we entered it; and (4) The main events of the war, so that we can estimate it correctly. This meant three entirely new chapters at the beginning. While they were in course of preparation, the Armistice came and this again made it necessary to rewrite, entirely and on a new plan, the chapter on the Diplomatic Problems of Peace, and new final chapters on the Problems our citizens must face during the next few years. These Problems of Peace and the History of the War cannot be separated. mittee on Organized Education of the National Security Thomas W. Churchill Arthur L. Frothingham Henry D. Thompson C. H. Van Tyne Talcott Williams The arrangement of the material should be noted. HENRY D. THOMPSON, |