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Title: William Martin notes
Date (inclusive): 1915-1933
Collection Number: XX420
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In French
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes
(2.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Summaries of interviews of European diplomats and statesmen, relating to European and world military, political, and diplomatic
events during and after World War I. In part, photocopy.
Creator:
Martin, William, 1888-1934
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
[Identification of item], William Martin notes, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
WIlliam Louis Martin was born in Geneva, in 1888, of Swiss parents. He was educated at Geneva and Berlin and, in 1908, earned
a degree in law, the following year in political science, and, in 1910, his doctorate in law. From 1907 to 1914 he was in
Berlin as a correspondent for the
Journal de Genève and for the
Journal des Débats (Paris). During the first year of World War I he was attached to the General Staff of the Swiss army. He was the Paris correspondent
for the
Journal de Genève in 1915 and 1916 and political lead writer from 1917 to 1919. In 1918, as a member of a Swiss press mission, he traveled
widely through the United States. In 1919 he was in the Section of Information of the Secretaries of the League of Nations
and for the next four years he was technical adviser for the International Labor Office. In 1924 he became the Foreign Editor
of the
Journal de Genève.
Martin was a professor ad interim of the diplomatic history of Switzerland and International Law at the University of Geneva.
He wrote the
La Crise Politique de l'Allemagne Contemporaine (1913) ;
Sur les routes de la Victoire (1916) ; and
Histoire de la Suisse (1926). He contributed to many English and American newspapers and magazines, including
The Atlantic Monthly, The Forum, the
New York World,
The Christian Science Monitor, The Spectator, The Contemporary Review, and
The Quarterly Review.
Scope and Content of Collection
Summaries of interviews of European diplomats and statesmen, relating to European and world military, political, and diplomatic
events during and after World War I. In part, photocopy.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Journalists
World War, 1914-1918 -- Diplomatic history
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945
Journal de Genève.
World politics -- 1919-1932