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August 14, 1937.

Professor Charles W. Pipkin
The Southern Review
The Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Dear Pipkin:

Your letter, written before you left for
the Far East, said that the dead-line for my article
was August 20. I suppose that that might be stretched
a little bit, but I won't take advantage of a pos-
sible leeway. D.v., the manuscript will be in your
hands by the 20th if Mr. Farley doesn't pull another
boner.

If you are back from the East, I hope
that you have had a pleasant trip. If you are on
route, I hope that you are having a pleasant trip.

Doubtless this arrangement did result in some coordination. The *Front Populaire* Cabinet, however, was far from realizing M. Blum's desire for ordinary ministers, group ministers, and himself at the apex. The base of the pyramid was broad, for the Cabinet was one of the largest France had known. All of the ministers and undersecretaries of State—thirty-five in number—attended Cabinet councils. A minister who was chairman of a coördinating committee may have thought of himself as *primus inter pares*, but what he was able to accomplish depended on his tact and on the coöperativeness of his fellow committeemen. The ministerial decrees which were issued providing for this cabinet coördination conferred little legal power on the ministerial chairmen. Moreover, M. Blum had faced situations where personal factors prevented the logical organization which he had envisaged. For example, he desired to have an Undersecretary for Air, but M. Pierre Cot insisted on being a minister, and he was made one. Furthermore, coördination was difficult because of insufficient like-mindedness on the part of ministers. Their economic views were pink, mauve, and red. Since the policies of their superiors were insufficiently melded, the functionaries were not overly inclined to subordinate departmental desires and to relinquish departmental prerogatives. M. Blum's grouping of ministers, however, showed no weakness vis à vis Parliament. His government was one of the strongest that the Third Republic has known, and leadership of the legislature was unquestionably facilitated by the Cabinet setup. In ten weeks the government drove sixty-five laws to the statute books, many

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October 18, 1937

Mr. Charles W. Pipkin, Editor
Southern Review
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Dear Pipkin:

I do not want to seem to thrust myself upon you, but for
some months I have had half completed an article which I pro-
pose to title "Epauletted Egotism". It contains some reflections
on the military mind with particular reference to Lloyd George's
Memoirs and Lidell Hart's books.

Sometime in November W. W. Norton is going to publish a
"History of Militarism" by Alfred Vagts who, as you doubtless
know, is Beard's son-in-law. I could get Norton to send me up
the page proofs of the volume and could give you in November an
article, with the title mentioned above, and hung, for timeliness,
on the new Vagts book. The article would then go on to discuss
Lloyd George, Hart, the relations between general staffs and
governments, etc., etc. What do you say?

I hope that you had the kind of trip that you wanted to the
Far East and that you were able to get away without undue difficulty.
Don't fail to let me know when you are in New York.

With warm regards, I am,

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February 2, 1939

Professor Charles W. Pipkin
Southern Review
Baton Rouge, La.

Dear Charles:

Your article is done — thirteen days before
it is due in your hands. But I am leaving this afternoon
for Puerto Rico without seeing the new typescript of
the last few pages.

My secretary will keep the original here;
I shall take the carbon thus far typed with me; the
remaining pages will reach me, D. V., on Monday by
airmail; I shall send the carbon back to my secretary to
have some corrections entered on the original. These
should reach her by the ninth or tenth, and the article
will be in your hands on time. If anything should
happen to the planes carrying the precious manuscript
you can have the original without my afterthoughts
embodied thereon.

March 9, 1940

Mr. Charles W. Pipkin, Editor
Southern Review
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Dear Charles:

When is your next deadline for copy? I ask because I have been turning over in my mind a possible article of which a scrappy prospectus might run as follows:

The books which I would put in the footnote would be the British Blue Book; Neville Henderson's Report; the French Yellow Book; a volume of papers and documents relating to the foreign relations of Hungary, 1919-1920, just published by the Hungarian Ministry for Foreign Affairs; the Lansing papers, and perhaps Harold Nicolson's little book on Diplomacy which came out some months ago. As you can see, this bibliographical list is too disparate to support a discussion of any international issues. War guilt and everything it included would be ignored. My interest would be only in the methods and tempo of international negotiations. There is a tremendous contrast between the leisurely days of the Lansing papers or even the Hungarian negotiations (that volume apparently includes everything; foreign governments were not asked whether they had objections to the use of certain documents) and the hectic threats and alarms described in the British and French documents. They, incidentally, have

tremendous gaps but they could hardly be complete because
now-a-days so much is said over the telephone. The historian
of the last war had as his principal sources documents and
newspapers, with the memoirs coming later. Now there is
one important source which is almost unobtainable — what
went out over the radio. I say almost unobtainable, be-
cause even if the words are printed they tell only part of
the story. For the whole effect one would have to have
an electrical recording.

I do not know where the article would end up but
it would be shorter than I usually write for you. I am
confident you will agree that some of the problems hinted
at above are interesting and important. Whether you would
be willing to find space for them is another matter, but I
have hopes.

I asked at the Christmas meeting whether anybody
had seen you around and the answer was in the negative. When
do you expect to be in New York?

With warm regards I am,