冒险年代-美国总统胡佛自传(纯英文版).epub

CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1　IOWA
CHAPTER 2　OREGON
CHAPTER 3　STANFORD UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER 4　START OF ENGINEERING LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES
CHAPTER 5　ENGINEERING IN AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER 6　ENGINEERING IN CHINA
CHAPTER 7　ENGINEERING OVER THE WORLD
CHAPTER 8　INTERNATIONAL FREE-LANCE ENGINEERING
CHAPTER 9　FAMILY LIVING AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
CHAPTER 10　LIVING WITH THE BRITISH
CHAPTER 11　THE PROFESSION OF ENGINEERING
CHAPTER 12　THE COMING OF THE WORLD WAR
CHAPTER 13　THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE IN LONDON
Four Horsemen in World War I
The Belgian Relief 1914-1920
CHAPTER 14　THE BELGIAN RELIEF
CHAPTER 15　FINANCING THE RELIEF AND INTERNATIONAL TROUBLE
CHAPTER 16　PIONEERING THE FIRST FOOD ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY
CHAPTER 17　TROUBLES WITH SHIPS
CHAPTER 18　TROUBLES CROSSING WAR FRONTIERS
CHAPTER 19　LIVING WITH THE GERMANS
CHAPTER 20　TROUBLE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE
CHAPTER 21　SOME PERSONAGES IN THE RELIEF
CHAPTER 22　SOME FAMILY AND AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC MATTERS AND COLONEL HOUSE
CHAPTER 23　AMERICA GOES TO WAR AND THE C.R.B. SHIFTS ITS BASE
CHAPTER 24　THE BELGIAN RELIEF PICTURE CHANGES AGAIN WITH THE ARMISTICE
CHAPTER 25　INTERLUDE TWENTY YEARS AFTER
United States Food Administration 1917-1919
CHAPTER 26　POLICIES AND ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER 27　FOOD AND MILITARY STRATEGY—THE FOOD BLOCKADE—THE GREAT FOOD CRISIS WHICH NEVER CAME
CHAPTER 28　WASHINGTON WAR ORGANIZATION—THE WAR COUNCIL—AND VARIOUS MATTERS
CHAPTER 29　SOME RESULTS OF THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 30　FAMILY LIFE IN WASHINGTON DURING THE WAR
CHAPTER 31　TRANSFORMING THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION INTO A NEW MISSION
The Relief and Reconstruction of Europe 1918-1920
CHAPTER 32　AT THE DAWN OF THE ARMISTICE
CHAPTER 33　SOME DISAGREEABLE SURPRISES

CHAPTER 34　SETTING UP ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER 35　MORE EFFORTS TO COOPERATE
CHAPTER 36　SOME DOWN-TO-EARTH PROBLEMS: WORLD SUPPLIES, FINANCE, ACCOUNTING, COMMUNICATIONS, PASSPORTS, GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
CHAPTER 37　MORE DOWN-TO-EARTH PROBLEMS: SHIPS, RAILWAYS, PORTS AND CANALS, COAL, BARTER OF INTERNAL SUPPLIES
CHAPTER 38　CHILD FEEDING—PESTILENCE—PRISONERS OF WAR—THE STANFORD WAR LIBRARY
CHAPTER 39　BREAKING AMERICAN FOOD PRICE GUARANTEES—THE CONTINUING BLOCKADE OF EUROPE
CHAPTER 40　THE ALLIES, THE NEUTRALS, BELGIUM AND POLAND
CHAPTER 41　FINLAND AND THE OTHER BALTIC STATES
CHAPTER 42　CZECHOSLOVAKIA, YUGOSLAVIA AND ARMENIA
CHAPTER 43　GERMANY, AUSTRIA, BULGARIA AND TURKEY
CHAPTER 44　HUNGARY AND ROUMANIA
CHAPTER 45　RUSSIA
CHAPTER 46　APPROACHING THE END
CHAPTER 47　SOME RESULTS
CHAPTER 48　THERE WAS IDEALISM
The American Crusade and the Halls of Peace
CHAPTER 49　THE AMERICAN CRUSADE AND THE HALLS OF PEACE
CHAPTER 50　DIFFICULTIES CONFRONTING WILSON—AND SOME PERSONALITIES
CHAPTER 51　SOME INCIDENTS OF PEACE-MAKING
CHAPTER 52　THE PEACE TREATIES
CHAPTER 53　WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FOURTEEN POINTS AND THE ADDITIONAL ELEVEN POINTS
CHAPTER 54　WHY AMERICA CANNOT MAKE PEACE IN EUROPE
CHAPTER 55　LIVING IN PARIS—AND LEAVING FOR HOME

PREFACE
These memoirs are not a diary but a topical relation of some events and incidents in a roughly chronological order. It has been my habit to keep notes and documents rather than daily entries—for which indeed I have found little time in life.
This volume comprises three parts: the first covers the period from my birth in 1874 to the end of my professional career in 1914; the second covers the First World War and the Armistice from mid-1914 to October, 1919; the third, my relations to the making of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
The first part was written at odd times during 1915-1916 when I was occupied with Belgian Relief. At that time I constantly had to journey backwards and forwards from London, crossing the English Channel two score times en route to Holland, Belgium, Germany, and often thence to Switzerland, Paris, and London again. These journeys were filled with hours of waiting. Wartime boats and trains were always late in starting or in arriving. There was also the eternal waiting in hotels for appointments with officials. Consequently, in the waits, I compiled this sort of record of my varied life for my two sons who I hoped would follow my profession as an engineer (as they did). It also served to relieve the boredom and monotony of the waits.
This portion was not originally intended for publication. Mrs. Hoover and I always believed the incidents of our family life were our sole possession. But myths sometimes good and sometimes not appear as to all persons who enter public life. Whether the myths are good or bad, they do not contribute to the store of truth.
The second and third parts, relating to my activities during World War I, were written at various times from 1920 to 1924.
The text has not been changed except to include some minor quotations from subsequent disclosures in proof of what happened in the negotiation of the peace and to condense the text by eliminating a large amount of documentation. This documentation has become generally available, and footnotes to the text indicate where it can be found. Among the available sources is the Stanford War Library, which contains probably ten million items on World War I and its aftermath.
Part of the text on peace making was published in the Saturday Evening Postin November, 1941.
I could have revised this volume in the light of twenty-five years after, but it has seemed to me that the value of such memoirs is to reflect views one held at the time and to clothe the documents of formal history with their background of events and personalities. I saw that war in the raw, together with some of its political and international phases, probably more intimately than any other American… …
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