The intimate papers of Colonel House arranged as a narrative by Charles Seymour.

xx CONTENTS
VII. ASPECTS OF FOREIGN POLICY 176
Problems of Diplomatic Appointments -The Ambassadorship to St. James's - Colonel House as Confidant
of Ambassadors - His Conception of a Positive Foreign
Policy - Relations with Great Britain - Panama Tolls
Exemption - Mexico - Clearing the Ground with Sir
Edward Grey - The Visit of Sir William Tyrrell - An
Informal Understanding - Repeal of the Tolls Exemption.
VIII. A PAN-AMERICAN PACT 207
House Urges Need of Close Understanding with South
American States - First Draft of Proposed Pact - Conversations with Naon, da Gama, Suarez - Approval, in
Principle, of A.B.C. Powers-Joint Action Regarding
Mexico —Development of the Pact- Difficulties and
Delays - Lapse of Negotiations - Historical Significance of the Attempt.
IX. THE GREAT ADVENTURE 235
Heavy Clouds in Europe - House's Sense of American
Interest and Responsibility - A Scheme to Meet the
Danger - An Extraordinary Mission - Atmosphere in
Germany - The Talk with the Kaiser - Planning
Peace with the British - The Murder of the Archduke
- Colonel House's Letter to the Kaiser - Failure.
X. WILSON AND THE WAR 276
Outbreak of the Conflagration - The Question of American Mediation - President Eliot's Suggestion of Intervention- The Sympathies of Wilson- House Urges
Military Preparation - Allied Interference with American Trade - Difficulties with the British - Page and
Spring-Rice.
XI. PLANS OF MEDIATION 318
The Military Situation in Europe - German Defeat on
the Marne - Overtures of Bernstorff - Discussions
with Spring-Rice - Letters from Page and Gerard -
Growth of Feeling against United States in Belligerent
Countries - Sir Edward Grey on the Attitude of American Government-Wilson Decides to Send House to
Europe.
XII. A QUEST FOR PEACE 359
House Sails on the Lusitania - First Conferences with
Grey and Asquith - The German Submarine Threat -
Suggestion of 'The Freedom of the Seas' - Discourag