and the menace posed by its president, general victoriano huerta, was the great menace of that moment. so i found this on the front page, where else, of "the new york times." annex 17 pages of that day's paper, there was not a single mention of europe, whether there was any menace from europe, where as our two featured office today have so masterfully chronicled, a quarter-century report, but nevertheless very currently, the seeds of a real-world war were already terminating. the second baltimore had just concluded, set the stage of it, and now europe was building toward a far broader and more deadly confrontation. so to examine all these roots, it's my great pleasure to welcome margaret, as master a chronicle of the lead up to the conflict in her new, "the war that ended peace," as she was describing the words of -- "paris 1919", very close to the owner. and on the far side, robert, whose address not -- i won't actually listed but that's the book. it's magical i must say. and it of course showed how yet the great work truly pave the way towards understanding great currents that were