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io6 HARVARD LAW REVIEW after Strobel's death, worked absolutely alone. Our own state department had little knowledge of or direct interest in his work and gave it no backing. Because of his modesty and reticence, his own countrymen knew little of the great work he was accomplishing. He brought to his work the most engaging personal qualities of an impersonal man, — one who thought not of himself but always in terms of the people, of the problem before him. The principle, the aim, was always the propulsion, never just what he, the man, was trying to do. Porter E. Sargent, 'g6.