188 Basle Cathedral, “dangerous” consequences: Annual Register, 1912, 367.
189 Jaurès’ speech: Joll, 155.
190 A survey of French student life: Les Jeunes Gens d’Aujourd’hui, q. Wolff (see Chap. 5), 275.
191 “If these were my last words”: Brockway, 39.
192 Vorwärts on Austrian ultimatum: Vayo, 78.
193 “We relied on Jaurès”: Zweig (see Chap. 6), 199.
194 Jouhaux’s proposal to Legien: Joll, 162.
195 La Bataille Syndicaliste: ibid., 161.
196 Brussels Conference: Balabanoff, 4, 114–18; Vandervelde, 171; Stewart, 340; Joll, 164.
197 Hardie, “Only the binding together”: Fyfe, 136.
198 Jean Longuet quoted: Goldberg, 467.
199 Bethmann-Hollweg: Joll, 167.
200 Jaurès’ death: Humanité, Figaro, Echo de Paris, Aug.1/2.
201 Spanish Socialist in Leipzig: Vayo, 81.
202 Bernstein, “golden bridge”: Hans Peter Hanssen, Diary of a Dying Empire, Indiana Univ. Press, 1955, 15.
203 Kaiser, Deschanel, Jouhaux: The Times, Echo de Paris, Aug. 5.
Afterword
1 Graham Wallas: Preface to 3rd ed. of Human Nature in Politics, 1921.
2 Emile Verhaeren: La Belgique sanglante, Paris, 1915, Dédicace, unpaged.
About the Author
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August, a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There followed five more books: The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience, in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, a collection of essays, and The March of Folly. The First Salute was Mrs. Tuchman’s last book before her death in February 1989.
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