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After the Spanish-American War the United States, both by design and by accident, became involved in the Caribbean and the Far East on a scale that would have seemed highly improbable before 1898. As an ""emerging"" world power, the United States had to grapple with new issues, among them the role of military men and military power in protecting and advancing America's position in the world. Richard D. Challener has examined civil-military relationships in the period 1898-1914 to answer the following questions: To what extent did army and navy officers develop opinions on foreign policy issu

After the Spanish-American War the United States, both by design and by accident, became involved in the Caribbean and the Far East on a scale that would have seemed highly improbable before 1898. As an ""emerging"" world power, the United States had to grapple with new issues, among them the role of military men and military power in protecting and advancing America's position in the world. Richard D. Challener has examined civil-military relationships in the period 1898-1914 to answer the following questions: To what extent did army and navy officers develop opinions on foreign policy issu.

What tempts an army to move into politics and ultimately to pass beyond the threshold of legality into the realm of civil disobedience and insurrection? In Latin America and the underdeveloped world, where such occurrences have been common, the phenomenon of military "praetorianism" poses relatively few analytical problems for the historian or social scientist. But the forces in modern democratic societies which lead an army into rebellion are far more complex, just as, fortunately, they arise with far less frequency. In contemporary France the problem of military insurrection is especially complicated, all the more so since the French army, until the era of the Second World War, had always regarded itself as "la grande muette," suffering but obedient, and the French officer corps had prided itself on its apoliti-cism and devotion to strict professional duty.

"The best thing about diplomatic life," Joseph C. Grew once confided to his diary, "… is that one never knows when some event or development of prime importance is going to occur. We pursue the even tenor of our ways for weeks and months and then, often suddenly and unexpectedly, we find ourselves in the midst of a maelstrom of hectic activity, working day and night, rushing telegrams, drafting press communiqués and speeches, dashing from place to place, doing useful work." Turbulent Era, the account of the forty years he spent as a career diplomat in the American Foreign Service, is convincing evidence that Joseph Grew was present on an extraordinary number of occasions when something of importance broke and that, above all, he was always doing useful work for the country he served so faithfully and so well.

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Book One: The Twenties -- A NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS -- THE OLD TRADITION IN A NEW ERA -- Chapter 1. The British Foreign Office from Grey to Austen Chamberlain -- Chapter 2. The French Foreign Office: The Era of Philippe Berthelot -- DIPLOMACY AT GENEVA -- Chapter 3. Sweden: The Diplomacy of Osten Unden -- Chapter 4. Czechoslovakia: The Diplomacy of Eduard Benes -- THE STRUGGLE FOR NEW POSITION -- Chapter 5. Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Early Weimar Republic -- Chapter 6. Turkish Diplomacy from Mudros to Lausanne -- Chapter 7. The Early Diplomacy of Italian Fascism, 1922-1932 -- Chapter 8. Soviet Diplomacy: G. V. Chicherin, Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs, 1918-1930 -- ON THE SIDELINES -- Chapter 9. The Department of State and American Public Opinion -- Book Two: The Thirties -- FIGHTERS FOR LOST CAUSES -- Chapter 10. Arthur Henderson -- Chapter 11. Maxim Litvinov -- Chapter 12. Alexis Saint-Leger Leger -- THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE -- Chapter 13. The German Foreign Office from Neurath to Ribbentrop -- Chapter 14. Three Observers in Berlin: Rumbold, Dodd, and Francois-Poncet -- Chapter 15. Two German Ambassadors: Dirksen and Schulenburg -- THE TWILIGHT OF DIPLOMACY -- Chapter 16. Ciano and his Ambassadors -- Chapter 17. Two British Ambassadors: Perth and Henderson -- Chapter 18. The Voice in the Wilderness: Robert Coulondre -- Chapter 19. The Diplomacy of Colonel Beck -- REACTIONS TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM -- Chapter 20. Yosuke Matsuoka and the Japanese-German Alliance -- Chapter 21. Two American Ambassadors: Bullitt and Kennedy -- List of Contributors -- Index