Ours was an old friendship: it was nearly thirty years ago that I met Waldemar Gurian for the first time in Bonn. At that time he was a brilliantly promising young man. He was expected to play an important role in the intellectual renovation which seemed to be underway in Germany. All that was stopped by the coming of the Nazis, which forced him to leave his country. Thanks to the facilities offered him by the University of Notre Dame, Waldemar Gurian resumed his activities as a scholar and a teacher with a courage that I admired. I would like to express also my admiration for his staunch dedication to the principles of freedom, and for his work as an historian of ideas, as a political philosopher and as an expert in international affairs—with regard to Russian bolshevism especially. He had many other interests. His understanding of spiritual life was remarkably broad. His profound Catholic faith made it possible for him to overcome many painful trials, and it was this background of anxiety and nostalgia which, from the very beginning of our association, aroused in me a feeling of affection for him. The founding of the Review of Politics, and its development into a most remarkable work of scholarship, of broad and living understanding of contemporary events, of human and philosophic value and of doctrinal soundness are also traceable to his Catholic faith, as well as to his very firm sense for intellectual and scientific rigor. The death of Waldemar Gurian means to me the loss of a faithful friend, and it is with deep emotion that I pay tribute to his memory

The study of leadership in local government for small- and middle-sized towns is a neglected phase of political science research. For many years scholars have accounted for the urban boss and machine; but its complementary counterpart at the grassroots has been taken for granted. Millions of Americans prefer to live and govern themselves in towns. Their politics warrants analysis not only because it will continue as a vital and characteristic contribution to our way of life but also because it frequently plays a superior rôle in state and national representation than it numerically is entitled to do

It was typical of Waldemar Gurian that, rich in philosophical thought and human understanding, he in turn enriched each field of studies which he touched, not least the field of Russian studies. Just because we, his colleagues and friends, have long grown accustomed to tum to him for creative and discriminating initiative and for the benefit of his wise judgment, and because he never failed with modesty and insight to meet these constant demands, it is difficult, now that he is gone from our midst, to measure precisely the manifold and essential contributions which he made to the strengthening of this important and difficult field of investigation. Yet it has clearly grown in strength and in usefulness to a free society because of his strength of mind and spirit.

In 1934 Waldemar Gurian had the wriest of pleasures, when he was forced to recognize that his very pessimistic analysis of the National-Socialist movement was correct. He fled from Germany to Switzerland where he was soon joined by his wife and daughter. In the extremely straitened circumstances of an emigré, soon to receive official notification that he was a stateless person, he had to face simultaneously the tasks of earning a living and of carrying on his work as a Catholic writer who combined scholarship and publicism. He was a profound student of Bolshevism. But his study, personal experience and the progress of events emphasized that Europe then faced a more dangerous threat than Russian Bolshevism. The threat stemmed from the control of Germany by the National-Socialists, who skilfully exploited a moral crisis in Germany and all of Europe, to gain and, then systematically and totally, to consolidate power in Germany. The menace to Europe was all the more dire, because the Nazis had disguised their totalitarian movement in the mask of anti-Bolshevism and so the danger went unrecognized.

Personal and historical fate put Waldemar Gurian in his short but full and fulfilled life into the center of the vortex of the twentieth century. Born in Russia, educated in Germany, deeply familiar with France, he witnessed the intellectual, moral and social transformations produced by the First World War in the principal countries of continental Europe. While he was still in his twenties and early thirties, he wrote a number of outstanding books analyzing these transformations and probing their core with an understanding deepened by the ability and opportunity of comparing them, of seeing the wealth of their differences and yet the essential similarity of the mental and moral climate out of which they grew. He wrote penetrating studies about Russian Bolshevism and German nationalism, about the political and social ideas of French Catholicism and about the integral nationalism in France. The changing mental and moral climate in continental Europe which Gurian observed after the First World War was one of the principal causes of the Second World War. Its approach caused Gurian to leave continental Europe for the United States. Here began the second and in many ways more fruitful period of his life. Not many immigrants of the troubled thirties had so much to give to their new fatherland in the breadth and objectivity of their understanding of the Old World and in the humaneness and liberality of their personality; few, indeed, put their whole life and soul into untiring constructive activity as he did in Notre Dame, which afforded him the generous opportunity, an activity which helped to prepare American scholarship and public opinion to meet with a better understanding the new responsibilities in the wake of the Second World War.

This bibliography contains the most important works of the late Professor Gurian and provides a picture of his scholarly achievements and his contribution to political and cultural thought. Dr. Gurian published a great number of articles and reviews in many English and foreign periodicals, encyclopaedias and journals. Some were signed with his pseudonyms: Hoplites, Walter Gerhart, Stefan Kirchmann. Some were only initialled or even anonymous. It would require long research to compile the complete bibliographical list of so distinguished a scholar, educator, journalist and editor. His valiant concern for justice and for an Aristotelian approach to culture and politics is thoroughly represented in The Review of Politics (abbreviated in the list as RP). Here he manifested the ripeness and power of his thought in many reviews of books, however short, and in articles dealing mainly with the problem of totalitarianism.