lesson has had constantly to be relearned by later Presidents and equally obvious that a much more professional approach was needed within government, in the press, and in private quarters generally.

Incidentally, Root was the first of eleven Secretaries of State, past, present or future at the time of writing, who have contributed articles to Foreign Affairs. In one issue, that of January 1963, there were in fact three such articles, two by past Secretaries (Dean Acheson and Christian Herter), the third by Henry Kissinger, whose day was yet to come.

Other articles in that first issue were by senior European statesmen of the time, with one article by a rising New York lawyer named John Foster Dulles, pointing out the difficulties of the reparations situation. Coolidge himself contributed thefirst of many articles on Soviet matters, using various letter initials rather than his name a device of course utterly transparent but reflecting a desire not to have the magazine appear as simply an outlet for its Editors. He need not have worried.

Part of the effort of the two men, in the early years, went into putting the magazine on the map, not by a modern-style public relations effort but simply by sending copies to influential people, who might then be induced to contribute or enlist others. Hence, via a friend from his days with Russian War Relief in Moscow during the war, Coolidge sent a copy of the issue to Karl Radek, Lenin's brain trust, which Radek in due course returned, reporting that he had given it