WAINWRIGHT, Richard, Admiral. Spanish-American War hero, Medal of Honor, Superintendant of the US Naval Academy (1900-1902), and etc.
Memorandum, Preliminary Study, Preparatory Committee of the United States for the Third Hague Conference.
Carbon copy on very thin, onion-skin-like paper. Ca. 1913. 11”x 8.5”, 296 leaves, partially paginated: (3),134 lvs, (14 lvs), (41 lvs), (6 lvs), (3 lvs), (13 lvs), (82 lvs); approximately 75,000 words. Bound in a contemporary store-bought “Shipman's Common Sense binder”. VG copy.
WorldCat does NOT locate this version of a subsequently-published report. $1750
Provenance: Admiral Richard Wainwright, then to the Navy Department library (received 30 Sept 1926), then to the Library of Congress
Various library stamps: mostly-removed Navy Department ex-libris; rubber stamp “Discarded/Navy Department Library”, rubber stamp of receipt by Navy on front free endpaper; “Admiral Wainwright” in a fine hand in ink at the top of front free endpaper; rubber stamp “Surplus Library of Congress Duplicate” on rear endpaper.
This seems to be a preliminary edition of Preliminary Report of the Preparatory Committee of the United States for the Third Hague Conference, to which Admiral Wainwright and two others were appointed by President Taft. “The committee appointed by President Taft June 10, 1912 consists of Hon J Reuben Clark ex Solicitor for the Department of State; Gen Enoch H Crowder, Judge Advocate General of the United States Army; and Rear Admiral Wainwright of the United States Navy. The report begins with the letter of Secretary Knox to President Taft April 5 1912 recommending the appointment of such a committee This letter suggests the importance of such a committee that the Government of the United States might be informed precisely of its relations to the Hague Conference The committee was appointed with the understanding that it represent the United States upon the international preparatory committee contemplated by the Second Hague and that the members should be technical delegates to the Third Hague Conference This letter also sets forth that since in the practical application of the principles and rules of international law all responsibility falls upon the Department of State the War Department and the Navy Department therefore the committee might well be made up of a representative of each department The committee which is to serve continuously until the close of the Third Hague Conference was set the task of preparing a general program for the participation of the United States in a Third Hague Conference While as suggested by the title the report submitted is but preliminary to the formal report hereafter to be submitted the general ...”--Advocate of Peace, Washington D.C., 1914., Vol 76 #1.
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