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MEMOIRS OF COUNT BERNSTORFF-J. Bernstorff-Random House...
...weeks ago the memoirs of two U. S. women of affairs painted dark portraits of Count Johann von Bernstorff, pre-War German Ambassador to the U. S. Countess de Chambrun in Shadows Like Myself (TIME, Sept. 28), included the Ambassador among the powerful, devious, tenacious conspirators of the German Embassy who influenced local elections, created social difficulties for the French Embassy. Mary Doyle in Life Was Like That described how she had been sent by the New York World to spy on Bernstorff during his absence from Washington in the hope of uncovering a journalistic sensation. Last week Bernstorff himself...
...typically detached, impersonal book of a professional diplomat, weighed down with heavily documented defenses of his policy, Memoirs of Count Bernstorff is of most interest to U. S. readers in its account of the months before relations be tween the U. S. and Germany were broken. Up to that time Bernstorff's career was unexciting. Born of an old diplomatic family in 1862, Bernstorff had been an in different student, apparently without goading ambitions, when a feud between his family and the Bismarcks seemingly put an end to any diplomatic aspirations he might have held. Bernstorff's older...
...Bernstorff: Of course, I think it would be an ideal state of affairs, but our enemies violate all the rules and you insist on their being applied to Germany...
...Bernstorff: Then I am to understand that you do not recognize the law of retaliation...