To Betty

A considerable number of kind people and institutions
have aided in the preparation of this book. The Council
of the Humanities, Princeton University, provided release
from teaching responsibilities in 1957-58, and the Prince-
ton Research Committee contributed generous financial
support. We are pleased to acknowledge the help received
from the research papers of graduate students, notably
James S. Bolen, John J. Bucholtz, Robert D. Burrowes,
Jameson Doig, Selwyn G. Geller, Donald A. Slater and
Joel Sterns. Helen Fairbanks and Cyril Roseman did much
of the tedious work of checking documentation against
original sources. We are under special obligation to Betty
Ruth Waldman and Helen S. Wright for typing and re-
typing the manuscript.

Various chapters draw material from Free Government
in the Making ( Oxford, 1949; 2nd edition 1956) and
Security Through Freedom ( Cornell University Press,
1955). Material from articles published in the American
Historical Review, American Political Science Review and
Political Science Quarterly is also included. To all these
institutions, publishers and individuals we are profoundly
grateful.

A. T. M. R. H. L.

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