Book Category: Militaria

TATARTCHEFF, Marthe Thibault. Appel des Femmes Macedoniennes aux peuples libres et la conscience internationale. Geneva, Imprimerie Commerciale, 1933. 9″x5.5″, 8pp (though 6 pp of text). (“An Appeal of the Women of Macedonia to Free People of the World and the International Conscience.”) Provenance: Carnegie Institute of Washington, and the Library of Congress, with three stamps for these institutions. VG condition. RARE. WorldCat locates only two copies of this work (University College London and Nanterre) and two copies of the English translation (Harvard and Harvard Law). $250

This is a harrowing tale. The author spent years trying to escape from what is today North Macedonia, trying to return to her native Switzerland. She tells a story of vast repression, destruction, and death. Tatartcheff writes (“After eight years of uninterrupted suffering…”) on the “…misfortune of Macedonia under Serbian domination” and “addressing the present appeal to the free peoples and to the international conscience, so that they come to help, in the name of humanity, as in the name of threatened peace in the Balkans and in Europe, to a population subjected to an incredible regime of physical and moral terror on the part of the government and the Yugoslav dictatorship”.

“The general policy pursued by the Serbian government, now known as Yugoslavia, in Macedonia since, 1912/13 and in the former provinces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1918/19, can be characterized in two words: serbization by violence moral and physical.”

After describing her own imprisonment and the condition of the country in general, the author makes a final appeal, and raises the possibility of extermination: “These methods constitute a permanent threat to the peace of the Balkans and Europe and they are a real disgrace for our century. Unfortunately, with the growing danger of the collapse of Yugoslavia, these methods are only getting worse and more cruel. In the name of human solidarity and peace, in the name of a population threatened with extermination, I address an ardent appeal to all humanitarian organizations in the world, to all international organizations working for the establishment of peace and to all upright consciences to raise their hearing voices for an end to the incredible terror of Serbian tyranny in Macedonia and Yugoslavia.”

Keywords: North Macedonia, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece.

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.

[Bammate, Haidar}  Circassia and Daghestan. Printed at Lausanne, Imprimeries Reunies, (1919). 9×6″, 15pp. Original wrappers. Good condition.  Scarce: it looks like there are only 3 print copies located by WorldCat. $125

• Provenance: “Bureau de Presse Nord-Caucasien, Paris”, and then the Library of Congress (with the LC surplus/duplicate stamp on front wrapper upper right corner

“Translated in part from the “Probleme de Caucase” in la Revue Politique Internationale, vol 10, Nov-Dec. 1918.”–Hoover institution on war, revolution and peace (Stanford, Calif.), A Catalogue of Paris Peace Conference Delegation Propaganda in the Hoover …”, p 30