WATER FOR ATHENS. (One of 15 Unpublished Copies).

(MacVeagh, Lincoln). Gausmann, Roy W.

Verlag: Athens, Greece, 1940., 1940

Beschreibung

- Quarto, 11-3/8 inches high by 9 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and on the spine. [2], x & 328 mechanically reproduced pages printed on the rectos only. Illustrated with an original photograph as the frontispiece, a pictorial title page, 60 inserted charts and plates not included in the pagination and a folding plate reproducing a document. Most of the plates with drawings were created by the author. Near fine. A RARE AND VALUABLE UNPUBLISHED WORK. Of 15 mimeographed copies this is No. 5 designated for Lincoln MacVeagh and was his copy.Laid into the book is a map outlining the Parnassos Aqueduct with notes on the stages of construction and a "General Plan" of the Athens-Piraeus Waterworks in 1945.The author, Roy W. Gausmann, was one of the designing engineers of the Marathon Dam and, until 1941, the general manager of EEY (the Greek Water Company). He trained as an engineer at Columbia University and worked for Ulen & Co. on the Shandaken Tunnel, bringing water from the Catskill Mountains to New York City. During World War II he supervised camouflaging the dam and purification plant in Athens in order to prevent the Germans from taking control of the water company.From the library of Lincoln MacVeagh and his wife Margaret with their "Arcades ambo" bookplate. Lincoln MacVeagh (1890-1972), a Renaissance man, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He went on to study languages at the Sorbonne and became fluent in German, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Classical Greek. He served in the Atois, St. Mihiel and Meuse Argonne campaigns of World War I as an aide to the commanding general of the 80th Division and of the Ninth and Sixth Army Corps. He rose to the rank of Major. After the war he became a director of the Henry Holt and Company publishing firm where he became friendly with the poet Robert Frost. In 1923 he left the firm and founded the Dial Press. His name appears on the imprint of many of their publications. In 1933 President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Greece. He followed presentation of his credentials with a speech in Classical Greek. While in Greece he conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Museum in Athens. He left Greece in 1941 when the German army over ran the country. From there he was appointed the first US Minister to Iceland where he negotiated agreements for the construction of the Keflavik airfield. In late 1942 he became Minister to the Union of South Africa and coordinated American wartime agencies there. In 1943 he was sent to Cairo as Ambassador so that he could assist the governments in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia. He returned to Athens as Ambassador in 1944. MacVeagh gave secret testimony before Congress concerning the Balkans in 1947, testimony that was an important factor in the formation of the Truman Doctrine. In 1948 as Ambassador to Portugal MacVeagh was influential in admitting her into NATO. In 1952 President Truman named him Ambassador to Spain. President Truman wrote to him on March 9, 1948: "On the occasion of your appointment as Ambassador to Portugal, I would like to make some personal expression of appreciation for the high services you have already rendered your country. During the past fifteen critical years you have served with distinction as Chief of the United states Missions to Iceland, the Union of South Africa, Yugoslavia and Greece. In this last post especially - as Minister from 1933 to 1941 and as Ambassador since 1943 - your scholarly statesmanship and diplomatic judgment have been of the utmost value.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 98653

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Titel: WATER FOR ATHENS. (One of 15 Unpublished ...

Verlag: Athens, Greece, 1940.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1940

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very good

Auflage: 1. Auflage