Peacemakers, Blessed and Otherwise - Observations, Reflections, and Irritations

Many accounts have been written, and many stories told, of the Washington Peace Conference for the Limitation of Armaments. No other story about this conference can equal in completeness or graphic power as the one given by Ida Tarbell. As a writer, Ida Tarbell has a definite as well as delicate touch which sets before us in a graphic way the picture that she has in mind. Moreover, in this connection she was particularly well fitted for her task. She had been at Paris during the days of the...