Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-251) and index.
Contents
A moral endowment for public service -- The beginning of public service: the American Red Cross Bureau of Communications -- The corporate state in the 1920s -- The London Naval Conference -- The Hoover moratorium -- The Manchurian incident: a study in applied diplomatic realism -- The presidential election of 1936 -- Opposition to intervention in Asia, 1939-1941 -- Opposition to World War II foreign policy -- Diplomatic realism and the postwar transformation of Japan -- An aged realist examines Cold War assumptions -- Appendix: Selected radio speeches to Japan.