are special colleagues and friends who provided crucial intellectual and emotional
support that ensured closure on this project. I want to thank, especially, Irwin
Abrams, Berenice Carroll, Charles Chatfield, Blanche W. Cook, Stephen J.
Stearns, and Solomon Wank on this side of the Atlantic; on the other side, in
particular, Peter van den Dungen, Nadine Lubelski-Bernard, and Werner Simon
offered indispensable and generous information, support, and leads. Werner
Simon was unfailingly gracious and helpful as I raced through the archives in
Geneva. At The College of Staten Island-C.U.N.Y., Jerry Mardison in the library
continued to smile, despite my requests for obscure journals and out-of-print
books. In addition to friends and colleagues, I have had important material help--
from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Professional Staff Con-
gress-City University of New York research grants, and the United States Institute
of Peace.

I took too long to finish this book. My dear friend and original cheerleader,
A. William Salomone, died in 1989 before this book appeared. He really wanted
to see it, and I am profoundly saddened that he did not.

Nancy Lane at Oxford University Press is the best editor anyone can have.

John, Lisa, Ann, Melani, and Mena Cammett make up the best family anyone
can have. Their self-sufficiency and independence were a great gift. John is a his-
torian, too, and there is no way to measure how I have benefited from his store-
house of learning as well as his unique capability to be both critic and compagno.

New York S.E.C.

October 1990

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