ALL IN A LIFE-TIME

BY
HENRY MORGENTHAU
IN COLLABORATION WITH
FRENCH STROTHER

ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM
PHOTOGRAPHS
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1922

COPYRIGHT, 1921, 1922, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
First Edition
TO
MY DEVOTED COMPANION
MY WIFE
WHO ORIGINATED SOME,
AND STIMULATED ALL,
OF MY BEST ENDEAVOURS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[I.][New Worlds for Old][1]
[II.][School Days][7]
[III.][Apprenticed to the Law][18]
[IV.][Real Estate][39]
[V.][Finance][63]
[VI.][Social Service][94]
[VII.][Early Political Experiences][109]
[VIII.][My Entrance into National Politics][128]
[IX.][The Campaign of 1912][150]
[X.][The Social Side of Constantinople][174]
[XI.][My Trip to the Holy Land][211]
[XII.][The Campaign of 1916][234]
[XIII.][My Meetings with Joffre, Haig, Currie, and Pershing][249]
[XIV.][John Purroy Mitchel][278]
[XV.][A Hectic Fortnight—and Others][287]
[XVI.][The International Red Cross][310]
[XVII.][The Peace Conference][322]
[XVIII.][My Mission to Poland][348]
[XIX.][Zionism a Surrender, Not a Solution][385]
[Appendix] [407]
[Index][441]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Henry Morgenthau][Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[Mr. Morgenthau playfully refers to this picture as the Morgenthau dynasty][54]
[Mr. Morgenthau with Theodore Roosevelt, Charles E. Hughes, Oscar Straus, and other distinguished citizens][118]
[Mr. Morgenthau as one of the group of financiers, doctors, and sociologists who organized the international association of Red Cross societies][267]
[Ignace Paderewski, Premier of Poland, and her representative at Paris][358]
[Joseph Pilsudski, Chief of State of Poland, who was not, at first, in sympathy with the American Mission][374]
[Rabbi Rubenstein, a leader of the Jewish community at Vilna][390]