The author is anxious to express a sincere hope that others of his fellow countrymen, profiting by what may be useful, avoiding what may be erroneous, supplying what may be defective in his labors, may by them be stimulated to undertake and execute a better treatise upon the same subject.-Phillemore's International Law, preface, XXIII. OF THE UNITED STATES ITS HISTORY AND FUNCTIONS By GAILLARD HUNT, LITT.D., LL.D. Lately Chief of the Bureau of Citizenship NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD MDCCCCXIV To Alvey Augustus Adee, Esquire, The Second Assistant Secretary of State. My dear Mr. Adee, Long years of delightful association as one of your subordinates in the State Department taught me to know how much the Department owes to you. You have given your life to its service. You have brought to that service diversified scholarship, peculiar aptitude, unselfish loyalty and a gentleman's sense of honor. You have guided our foreign relations through a hundred storms. The best traditions of the Department are personified in you. I beg you to accept this history, because there is no one else to whom it can so appropriately be dedicated, and because I wish to give myself the gratification of once more subscribing myself Washington, April 6, 1914. Your friend, GAILLARD HUNT. |