+ Am Hist R 26:99 O ’20 1100w
“There are many curious statements in the book, some of which no sophisticated reader will believe without confirmation. At any rate students of political science will find many things in this volume to provoke dissent, and some also that will meet with hearty concurrence.”
+ − Am Pol Sci R 14:736 N ’20 250w
“The book is interesting and has a certain historical value.”
+ Ath p11 Jl 2 ’20 580w
“The tone is reasonable and conciliatory, the logic sometimes too smooth.”
+ − Booklist 17:23 O ’20
“Throughout the narrative Count Bernstorff is wonderfully frank. Whether this frankness arises from an honest openness of mind or from an utter absence of ability to realize his own obliquity is a question for each reader to solve for himself.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 10 ’20 900w
“Count Bernstorff himself is not a thinker like Norman Angell and Bertrand Russell, but he is intelligent to a high degree, exact, fearless, without cheap pride, living in a much more real atmosphere than most of the German war statesmen. He has the prime advantage, for a time of such complexity, of having a good mind that functions without interference from his prejudices or his passions.” Norman Hapgood