New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 457, [1], xiii, [7] pages. Footnotes. Index. Ex-library with usual library markings. Ex-The Signal Corps Reference Library bookplate. Includes large fold-out map of the world inside one of the front free endpapers. Front hinge weak and has been restrengthened with glue. Cover has some wear and soiling, corners rubbed. This work is based on six lectures delivered in the fall of 1939 before the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Administered by Tufts College with the Co-operation of Harvard University. Buell, Raymond Leslie (1896–1946) editor, writer; born in Chicago. He taught history and government at several colleges during the 1920s. He was the research director (1927–33) and then president (1933–39) of the Foreign Policy Association. Served with American Expeditionary Forces, 1918-1919. Investigated political conditions in Africa under auspices of Bureau of International Research, Harvard and Radeliffe, 1925-1926. Member Wendell Willkie’s campaign staff, 1940. He was an early anti-isolationist, he championed a global policy for the U.S.A. More