Introduction: "A sort of coalition in himself" -- The press and politics: policy and epistemic communities -- Scripts, paradigms and beliefs -- A Great War; a noble cause? -- The thief in the night: the new dawn -- Paris: the transcendent man I -- Paris: the transcendent man II -- A relationship not so special -- Director of Europe (Frances Stevenson) -- Beyond a cold war -- Genoa and after -- From Cairo to Constantinople -- Chanak.