EARLY ON THE MORNING Of July 31, 1914, the telephone rang in the Secretary of the Treasury’s office in Washington . Four weeks and six days before, the heir to the Austro- Hungarian throne had been slain at Serajevo. Eight days before, there had been an Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia. Three days before, an Austro-Serbian … Continue reading America’s Chance of Peace-Duncan Aikman-Blair Bolles-1939