Preface 1
Chapter 1 Iowa 1
Chapter 2 Oregon 10
Chapter 3 Stanford University 16
Chapter 4 Start of Engineering Life in the United States 25
Chapter 5 Engineering in Australia 29
Chapter 6 Engineering in China 34
Chapter 7 Engineering over the World 69
Chapter 8 International Free-Lance Engineering 93
Chapter 9 Family Living and Extra-Curricular Activities 109
Chapter 10 Living with the British 116
Chapter 11 The Profession of Engineering 122
Chapter 12 The Coming ofthe World War 126
Chapter 13 The American Committee in London 132
THE BELGIAN RELIEF—1914-1920 143
Chapter 14 The Belgian Relief 143
Chapter 15 Financing the Relief and International Trouble 151
Chapter 16 Pioneering the First Food Administration in History 163
Chapter 17 Troubles with Ships 169
Chapter 18 Troubles Crossing War Frontiers 174
Chapter 19 Living with the Germans 180
Chapter 20 Trouble in the United States Senate 190
Chapter 21 Some Personages in the Relief 193
Chapter 22 Some Family and American Diplomatic Matters and Colonel House 200
Chapter 23 America Goes to War and the C.R.B.Shifts Its Base 206
Chapter 24 The Belgian Relief Picture Changes Again with the Armistice 215
Chapter 25 Interlude Twenty Years After 222
UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION—1917-1919 227
Chapter 26 Policies and Organization 227
Chapter 27 Food and Military Strategy—The Food Blockade—The Great Food Crisis Which Never Came 241
Chapter 28 Washington War Organization—The War Council—And Various Matter 246
Chapter 29 Some Results of the Food Administration 252
Chapter 30 Family Life in Washington During the War 258
Chapter 31 Transforming the Food Administration into a New Mission 261
THE RELIEF AND RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE—1918-1920 269
Chapter 32 At the Dawn of the Armistice 269
Chapter 33 Some Disagreeable Surprises 274
Chapter 34 Setting Up Organization 280
Chapter 35 More Efforts to Cooperate 284
Chapter 36 Some Down-to-Earth Problems：World Supplies，Finance，Accounting，Communications，Passports，Government Contracts 287
Chapter 37 More Down-to-Earth Problems：Ships，Railways，Ports and Canals，Coal，Barter of Internal Supplies 296
Chapter 38 Child Feeding—Pestilence—Prisoners of War—The Stanford War Library 306
Chapter 39 Breaking American Food Price Guarantees—the Continuing Blockade of Europe 314
Chapter 40 The Allies，the Neutrals，Belgium and Poland 338
Chapter 41 Finland and the Other Baltic States 347
Chapter 42 Czechoslovakia，Yugoslavia and Armenia 363
Chapter 43 Germany，Austria，Bulgaria and Turkey 374
Chapter 44 Hungary and Roumania 382
Chapter 45 Russia 396
Chapter 46 Approaching the End 407
Chapter 47 Some Results 411
Chapter 48 There Was Idealism 414
THE AMERICAN CRUSADE AND THE HALLS OF PEACE 419
Chapter 49 The American Crusade and the Halls of Peace 419
Chapter 50 Difficulties Confronting Wilson—and Some Personalities 434
Chapter 51 Some Incidents of Peace-Making 440
Chapter 52 The Peace Treaties 449
Chapter 53 What Happened to the Fourteen Points and the Additional Eleven Points 458
Chapter 54 Why America Cannot Make Peace in Europe 462
Chapter 55 Living in Paris—and Leaving for Home 469