Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009
While our subject is the very broad one of “History and Diplomacy,” I thought I would narrow it somewhat and attempt merely to describe something of the aspect in which diplomatic history presents itself to a diplomatist who has turned late in life to the study and writing of history.* In doing so, I hope that I have not taken too great a liberty with the subject our hosts had in mind.
* This paper was presented to the meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, Dec. 29, 1955.