An uncensored diary from the central empires

Foreword

The portion of my diary, which is published in this book, was written without thought of pubhcation. Remembering how greatly the diary, which my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Drinker kept during the Revolution, had interested her descendants, I recorded for my great-grandchildren my experiences last summer in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Belgium.

When publishers asked for the diary a century before I had expected, I did not attempt to polish loose-jointed English or to suppress any but personal incidents. The pages of the book stand as written within the lines of the Central Powers.

The character referred to as "Billy," throughout the diary, is my husband, William C. Bullitt.

Ernesta Drinker Bullitt.

Philadelphia, January 17, 1917.

Contents

PAGE

Foreword v

CHAPTER

I. Germany . 3

II, Belgium 117

III, Austria and Hungary 167