The Days of a Man 



1919 



Herron's 



tribute 



straitened circumstances. Shortly afterward Dr. 

 George D. Herron wrote me a letter which I feel 

 justified in printing because of its fine tribute to a 

 noble man: 



Chemin des Cottages, Geneva 

 January 8, 1920 



Dear Dr. Jordan: 



You will be glad to know that your comforting letter reached 

 Professor Lammasch the day before he died. On that day he 

 wrote me that he was much better and was happy over some 

 arrangements I had made for him to contribute to English 

 reviews. He was also just beginning the translation of an appeal 

 which I had written at his request to the youth of Germany. 



Will you permit me, in this connection, to express my own 

 gratitude to you for your reply to Professor Lammasch? I have 

 been in intimate contact with him since the beginning of 1918. 

 And there was a time when I, acting for the President, and he, 

 acting for the Emperor, had thought we had won a great moral 

 victory and that the United States of Europe would emerge 

 from the old Austrian Empire. But in the last moment, the 

 weak young Emperor yielded to the menaces of Berlin and the 

 great hope failed. The whole state of Europe and perhaps the 

 future of the world would have been different if Karl had yielded 

 to his great and good servant. 1 



This is a part of secret history, of course, but I want you to 

 know that not in all Europe not in France and not in Eng- 

 land did President Wilson have such a supporter as Professor 

 Lammasch. He was still the one man that might have mediated 

 between the Allies and the Central Powers. 



I am sure you will be glad to know that, as he lay upon his 

 bed in those last hours, feeling that his life had been a weariness 

 and a failure, you were one of his final comforters. All the more 



am I grateful to you because and , with both of whom 



Professor Lammasch had served on international tribunals, 

 had refused to have any communication with him because he 

 had been Prime Minister of an "enemy country" though, 

 indeed, he was a far better servant of America of the real 

 America than either of these. 



1 For the details of this matter see Appendix L (page 825). 



