International Conciliation 



European History, I inaugurated a regular course of 

 lectures at Stanford on the history of international 

 conciliation. This was largely attended by advanced 

 students, some of whom have since taken an active 

 part in liberal journalism. Among them I may men- Young 

 tion especially Geroid Robinson of The Freeman, hberals 

 Robert A. Donaldson of the United Press, Bruce 

 Bliven, Robert L. Duffus, Frank E. Hill, Maxwell 

 Anderson, Frank J. Taylor, and Harry Frantz, all 

 on the staff of the New York Globe. On my retire- 

 ment from active work and Krehbiel's subsequent 

 public activities during the war, the course was sus- 

 pended. The printed syllabus of our lectures formed 

 the nucleus of Krehbiel's "Nationalism, War, and 

 Society" (1915) and of my own "Democracy and 

 World Relations" (1918), to which I shall again refer. 1 



Now to go back somewhat and then anticipate a Crane 

 little in my narrative, it was in 1908 that Charles R. 

 Crane, manufacturer, traveler, philanthropist, and 

 lover of learning, became known to me, and as a 

 patron of the marine station at Woods Hole. The 

 next year President Taft appointed him ambassador 

 to China, especially urging that he should stress the 

 importance of the "Open Door" to us and to the 

 world. Crane is a man who thinks much and talks 

 little, a fact which did not save him from unjust 

 aspersions. 



Before leaving for China, the ambassador-elect 

 went to Washington to get final instructions from the 

 State Department, but, curiously enough, the Secre- 

 tary was reported each day as "busy," and no inter- 

 view could be obtained. When about to sail from 



1 See Chapter LIV, page 752. 



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