Leffingwell, Russell, 414–15
LeMay, Curtis, 293, 294, 458–59
Acheson’s negotiations on, 19, 219–20, 233–34
Harriman and, 19, 212, 214–20, 233–34
Lenin, V. I., 101, 156, 384, 632
Lewis, Fulton, 545
Lewis, Robert, 314–15
liberal movement, 125–26
Lie, Trygve, 501
Life, 25, 207, 263, 329, 373, 422, 553, 579–80, 581, 601–2
Lilienthal, David, 356–60, 391, 486–87
Limits of Intervention (Hoopes), 715
Lincoln, Abraham, 340, 538, 676, 694
Lindbergh, Charles, 118
Lippmann, Walter, 94, 197, 264n, 269, 363–64, 501, 661
Acheson’s disagreements with, 401, 476, 545
on foreign policy, 419–20, 422–23
on German reunification, 471
Kennan’s communications with, 408–9, 446
on Soviet Union, 34, 349, 355, 401, 408
Litvinov, Maxim, 102, 155–56, 158, 166, 175, 213, 219–20, 342
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 638, 639–40, 701
Lodge, John, 425
London Foreign Ministers Conference (1945), 318–19, 328–30
London Poles, 224
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 95, 115n
Longworth, Nicholas, 95
Los Angeles Times, 197
Lovett, Adéle Brown, 108–10, 190, 366, 427, 462, 525, 735, 736
Lovett, Lavinia Chilton Abercrombie, 61–62
Lovett, Robert A.:
Acheson and, 417–18, 465–66, 493–94, 509, 539, 542, 544–46, 549, 556, 581, 592–93, 594, 716–17
articles written by, 116
Bohlen and, 488
childhood and heritage of, 60–63
death of, 736
diary of, 425–26
early career of, 109
Harriman and, 18, 21, 60, 62, 63, 112–13, 115, 116–18, 183–84, 193–94, 207, 417, 509, 522, 585, 604
health problems of, 63, 183, 338, 366, 417, 462, 592, 593, 625, 678, 735
Kennan’s relationship with, 449–50
McCloy and, 120, 121, 194–96, 458–59, 627, 734–35
military service of, 90–93
press coverage of, 193–94, 195, 203, 337, 432, 546
relaxations of, 109–10
sociability of, 110
student years of, 21, 63–64, 80, 90, 93
tensions defused by, 61–62
Lovett, Robert S., 61–63, 88, 108, 113–14
Lowe, Frank, 523
Loy, Myrna, 549
Luce, Henry, 25, 193, 263, 475, 553
Lyon, Cecil, 94, 431, 626, 672
MacArthur, Charles, 161
Acheson and, 323, 477–78, 506, 522–24, 531, 537, 543–45, 551
China and, 521–24
Harriman and, 522–24, 531–32, 534, 540–41
Japan administered by, 484–85, 520–21
Korean War and, 508, 521–22, 530–33, 535–44, 548–49
Lovett and, 535–36, 539, 542, 549
McCloy’s negotiations with, 333–34
Marshall and, 533, 536–39, 544, 548–50
Truman and, 522–24, 534, 536, 548–50
McCarran, Patrick, 137, 565–66
McCarthy, Joseph, 373, 502, 604
Acheson and, 55, 399, 466, 492–95, 505, 540, 557, 583
Bohlen and, 568
Harriman and, 568
Kennan and, 565–66
McClellan, George, 694
McCloy, Anna May Snader, 65–67, 69, 70–71
McCloy, Ellen Zinsser, 69, 122–23, 193, 305
McCloy, John J., Jr.:
Acheson and, 186, 324–25, 334, 493, 513–15, 518, 592, 614
Bohlen’s communications with, 334
books by, 572
childhood and heritage of, 65–67
diary of, 18, 254–55, 302, 305–6, 311–12, 319, 333, 336
Harriman and, 120, 121, 330–31, 515, 585, 604, 691
journal of, 238, 308, 335, 336
Kennan and, 555
lectures of, 572
Lovett and, 120, 121, 194–96, 458–59, 627, 734–35
memoirs of, 734
militarism of, 69–70
in military service, 70–71
perseverance of, 124–25
press coverage of, 196
recreations of, 68–69, 121, 457, 613
speeches of, 67, 334–35, 337, 368, 428–29, 691
student years of, 23, 67–71, 88–89
MacColl, René, 412
McCone, John, 638
McCormick, Robert R., 412
McKennan, James, 74
McKinley, William, 28
MacLeish, Archibald, 85, 87, 91, 92–93, 109, 189, 311, 477, 545, 591, 654–55
MacLeish, Kenneth, 91, 92–93, 109
McMahon, Brien, 501
Macmillan, Harold, 609–10, 631–32
McNamara, Robert, 639–40, 649, 670, 723–24
Acheson and, 612, 620–21, 654, 683
Cuban missile crisis and, 619–20, 624
J. F. Kennedy and, 597–98
on Laotian crisis, 607
Vietnam War and, 639–40, 649, 659, 669, 670, 676, 683, 684, 724
McPherson, Harry, 704
MacVeagh, Lincoln, 388
Malenkov, Georgi, 575–77
Manchester, William, 548
Manchester Union-Leader, 564–65
Mansfield, Mike, 717
Marks, Anne Wilson, 360
Marshall, Charles B., 425, 530, 532
Marshall, George C., 266, 294, 310, 318, 454
Acheson and, 390–91, 525, 537–39, 544
on aid to Greece, 394
Bohlen as assistant to, 411–13, 459
Chinese civil war and, 390, 475
Harriman and, 525
health problems of, 449, 462–63, 550
Kennan’s communications with, 404–5, 421, 423–24, 435, 438, 448–49
Korean War and, 533, 536–38, 541, 544, 548
Lovett and, 194–95, 205–6, 417, 449, 452–53, 525–26, 539
MacArthur and, 533, 536–39, 544, 548–50
Marshall Plan and, 22, 404–6, 410–14, 424–25, 427, 432–33, 441
Molotov and, 402
1948 election and, 462
Palestinian issue and, 452–53
Rusk compared to, 596
Stalin’s meeting with, 402–3
Marshall Plan, 122, 248, 306, 404–8
Acheson’s promotion of, 409–10, 412–13, 424–25, 428, 441, 679
Bohlen’s role in, 407, 411–13, 415–16, 430, 441
Congress lobbied for, 424–28, 430–34
criticisms of, 407
Czech crisis and, 440–41
Europe as partner in, 411–13, 415–16, 420–21, 426, 429–30, 443–44
Harriman’s role in, 425, 427–28, 430, 433, 442–43, 515
Kennan’s contribution to, 404–7, 410–11, 413–16, 420, 421–22, 434
Lovett’s role in, 414–15, 420–21, 424–27, 432–34
Marshall and, 22, 404–6, 410–14, 424–25, 427, 432–33, 441
Nitze and, 429–30, 433–34, 485
Soviet Union and, 411, 413–16, 432, 435
Stalin’s reaction to, 415–16, 426
Truman’s role in, 410, 420, 424, 441–42
Vandenberg on, 409–10, 424–26, 428, 441
Martin, Joseph, 549
Marx, Harpo, 158–59
Marx, Karl, 89
Kennan on, 353–54
see also Communism
Masaryk, Jan, 439
Maxwell, Elsa, 269
Meigs, John, 63
Memoirs (Kennan), 74, 227, 232, 240
Mendenhall, Joseph, 640
Mendès-France, Pierre, 426
Menshikov, Mikhail, 614
Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, 84
Merz, Charles, 86–87, 186, 193
Messolonghitis, Constantine, 78
Meyer, Eugene, 193
Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw, 224, 229, 230, 242, 284, 285
Mikoyan, Anastas, 233
Mills, Wilbur, 667
Mintz, Morton, 201
Mission to Moscow (Davies), 168, 279
Mitchell, John, 731
Mixed Claims Commission, McCloy’s appearances at, 123–25
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlevi, 733
Moley, Raymond, 113
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 175–77, 242–43, 310, 415
Byrnes’s meetings with, 306–7, 318–19, 328–29, 343
Harriman’s meetings with, 221, 222, 245, 258–60, 317, 331–32
Marshall and, 402
at U.N., 269
war reparations negotiated by, 292–93
Monnet, Jean, 122, 129, 130, 195, 237, 429–30, 518, 584
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de, 720
Montreux Convention, 369, 371–72
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 134–35, 235–38, 291–92, 735
Morning and Noon (Acheson), 51, 54, 126, 136
Morrison, Stanley, 127–28
Morrow, Dwight, 133
Mosadeq, Mohammed, 556n
Moscow Foreign Ministers Conferences (1943, 1945, 1947), 222, 343–44, 402–3
Moses, Robert, 485
Muccio, John, 505
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 412–13
Muir, John, 45
Murphy, Gerald, 85
Murphy, Robert, 456
Mussolini, Benito, 103
Nagasaki, 316
National Recovery Administration (NRA), 116
National Security Council, 430
National War College, 373, 374, 378, 423
Neely, Matthew, 137–38
Nelidoff, Alexander, 123–24
Neustadt, Richard, 537
New Deal:
Acheson’s opinion of, 135–37, 186
Harriman’s support for, 20, 113, 116
Lovett’s opposition to, 116–17
Newsweek, 193–94
New York, 715
New York Herald Tribune 409, 491
New York Times, 100, 104, 111, 157–58, 181, 186, 193, 249, 269, 301, 315, 337, 365–66, 387, 409, 413, 420, 422, 428, 476, 504, 521, 532, 542, 553, 575, 644, 649, 656, 661, 668, 690, 696, 700–701, 720
New York Times Magazine, 368
New York World, 105
Nhu, Madame Ngo Dinh, 638
Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 637–38
Nicholas I, Czar of Russia, 170
Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, 20
Nitze, Paul, 26, 96, 207–8, 350–51, 448
Acheson and, 530, 538, 570, 582–83, 592, 685
appearance of, 737
background of, 482–85
Berlin crisis and, 611, 613, 614
on Establishment, 27
hydrogen bomb and, 486, 489–90
Kennan and, 481–82, 485, 489–90, 495–96, 526–27, 724–25
J. F. Kennedy and, 597–98
on Korean War, 526–27, 528, 530, 548
Lovett and, 497
Marshall Plan and, 429–30, 433–34, 485
NSC–68 and, 490, 496–98, 500–502
Rusk and, 619
Soviet policy of, 484, 489–90, 496–98, 737–38
Nitze, Phyllis Pratt, 483, 725
Nixon, Richard M., 373, 546, 710, 712–13, 732
Acheson and, 466, 490, 492, 716–18
Nolting, Frederick E., Jr. (“Fritz”), 639
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 450, 472, 584, 723
Acheson on, 489, 673–75, 717–18
France’s opposition to, 518–19, 671, 673–75
Soviet Union and, 447–48
“Notes on the Establishment” (Rovere), 27
NSC–68, 552–53
Acheson and, 499–502, 504, 513
Bohlen and, 498–501
Kennan’s opposition to, 495–96, 499, 501
Nitze and, 490, 496–98, 500–02
Soviet threat and, 496–98, 502–3
Truman and, 499–500, 502–4, 509–10
nuclear disarmament, 481, 487, 501, 733
nuclear test ban:
Harriman’s negotiation of, 630–33
J. F. Kennedy and, 630–33
Khrushchev and, 20, 630–31, 633
nuclear weapons:
Kennan on, 472, 487–89, 580, 723–24
“no first use” doctrine for, 724–25
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (Kissinger), 582
Nugent, Patrick Lyndon, 680, 702–3
Nuremberg trials, 516
Ohly, John, 469
On Active Service in Peace and War (Stimson and Bundy), 192, 598
Operation Killer (Ridgway’s Korean attack plan), 548
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 293, 301–2, 358, 486–87, 529, 578, 598, 667
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 730–33
Ormsby-Gore, David, 632
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (Destler, Gelb and Lake), 726
Oxford University, 83, 86, 579
Palestinian dispute, 386–87. 451–53, 468, 469
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 127–28
Panikkar, K. M., 533
Panyushkin, Alexander, 448
Patterson, Robert, 192, 325, 428
Pauley, Edwin, 291–93, 300–301
Peabody, Endicott, 30, 46–50, 54–55, 57, 598
Peddie School, 67–68
Pendergast, Tom, 287, 464, 492
Pentagon, construction of, 201–2
Pentagon Papers, 714–15
Pepper, Claude, 363
Perle, Richard, 737
Permanent Court of Arbitration, Acheson at, 129–30
Phelps, Robert, 720
Phelps, William Lyon, 86
Phillips, William, 157
Phoui Sananikone, 606
Picasso, Pablo, 106
Plan A, 471–72
Plant, John, 68
Plimpton, Francis, 88
Pogue, Forrest, 537–38
POINTBLANK (saturation bombing of Germany), 207
Point Four, 732
Poland:
Katyn Forest murders in, 216–17, 229–30
Soviet Union and, 19, 216–17, 223–24, 229–32, 242, 244, 245–46, 247, 261, 264–67, 272–73, 283–87, 298, 307, 415–16, 727–28
Poole, DeWitt Clinton, 159
Porter, Cole, 82–83, 85, 86, 87
“Position of the American Ambassador in Moscow” (Kennan), 170
Potsdam Conference (1945), 296, 298, 299–308, 369, 430
Potsdam proclamation, 296–97, 300, 310–12
Power and Diplomacy (Acheson), 590
Prague, Bohlen in, 143–44
Present at the Creation (Acheson), 22, 656, 720–21, 724
President’s Consultants on Foreign Affairs, see Wise Men
Preston, Guy, 70–71
Princeton University, 72, 76–80, 143
Problems of Leninism (Stalin), 561, 576
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 591
“Psychological Background of Soviet Foreign Policy” (Kennan), 383–85, 421–23
“Public Information Program on United States Aid to Greece,” 395–96
Pushkin, G. M., 616
Qaddafi, Muammar, al–, 730
Quebec Conferences (1943, 1944), 218, 237
Radek, Karl, 167
“Random Harvest” (Acheson), 368
Raskob, John, 105
Readers Digest, 422
Reagan, Ronald, 29, 728, 729, 733–34, 737–38
Reams, Bob, 449
Red-baiting, 137–38
in government, 398–99, 426–27, 466–67, 491–95, 556–57
Lovett on, 427
Reed, Norman, 63
Republicans, Republican Party, 100, 104
Lovett’s ties with, 461–62
McCloy’s ties with, 592
Red-scare tactics of, 137–38, 426, 466, 490–93
Reston, James, 368, 387, 409–10, 412, 545, 685
“Resume of World Situation” (Kennan), 435
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 177
Riga, Kennan in, 149–50, 152–55
Robeson, Paul, 339
Rockefeller, David, 714, 726, 733, 734
Rockefeller, Nelson, 572, 585, 601
Rogers Act (1924), 142
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 104–5, 169, 254, 255, 270, 516
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 28, 48, 69, 95, 115, 202, 206, 391, 484
Acheson’s relationship with, 133–36, 138, 185–87
Bohlen’s opinion of, 260–61
Churchill and, 189, 207, 210–11, 215–16, 237, 241
death of, 17–19, 241, 250, 254–55, 258, 288
Great Britain and, 185–86, 188
Harriman as special envoy of, 20, 188, 212, 213–18, 659
Harriman as supporter of, 116, 188, 244
Harriman’s communications with, 216, 218–19, 223, 231, 241–43, 244, 247, 249, 406, 634
Kennan’s meetings with, 226, 227
Occupied Germany and, 236, 237
Soviet policy of, 17, 18, 155–56, 164, 168, 174, 211, 227–28, 249, 260–61, 275–76
Truman compared to, 255–57, 260, 267–68
on Vietnam, 478
Roosevelt, Hall, 104–5
Roosevelt, Theodore, 28, 41, 48, 80, 95, 104, 115n, 180, 182, 477, 564
Root, Elihu, 28–29, 180, 181, 244, 336
Rostow, Eugene, 154, 233, 436, 583
Vietnam War and, 637, 641, 664–65, 670, 678, 687, 694, 698, 700, 701
Rovere, Richard, on Establishment, 27–28
Rublee, George, 129, 131, 133, 186
Rumsey, Charles, 63
Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 41–43, 63, 84, 104–5, 116
Rusk, Dean, 608
Acheson and, 527–28, 592, 594–95, 612, 620–21, 625, 629, 646, 655, 674
on Berlin crisis, 612–13
Bohlen’s correspondence with, 704
Cuban missile crisis and, 619–20, 623, 625–26, 628
Dulles and, 595–96
Establishment and, 28
Far East obsession of, 596
Galbraith and, 27
Harriman and, 604, 607, 619, 630–31, 637, 657, 659, 706–7
Johnson and, 704–5
Kennan’s disagreements with, 668
J. F. Kennedy and, 592, 594–96, 611, 639, 704
Korean War and, 506, 528–29, 544, 548, 592, 595, 655
Lovett and, 594–96
Marshall compared to, 596
Nitze and, 619
Vietnam War and, 637, 639, 640, 655, 664–65, 668, 678, 703–4
Russell, Richard, 326
“Russia” (Kennan), 170
Russia Leaves the War (Kennan), 552
“Russia—Seven Years Later” (Kennan), 240
“Russia’s International Position at the Close of the War with Germany” (Kennan), 284
St. John’s Military Academy, Kennan as student at, 76, 78–79
St. Paul’s School, 57–60
Salisbury, Harrison, 76, 553, 575, 671 Saturday Evening Post, 116
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 29, 231, 604, 608, 610–11, 628–29, 633–34, 660–61, 668
Schmidt, Helmut, 734
Schurman, Jacob Gould, 100–101
Schwartz, Thomas, 517
Scott, Hugh, 530
Seaborg, Glenn, 631
Service, John Stewart, 557
Shattered Peace (Yergin), 416
Sheehan, Neil, 656
Sherwood, Robert, 195, 283, 445
Short, Dewey, 550
Shriver, Sargent, 597
Shulman, Marshall, 609
Siberia and the Exile System (Kennan), 75
Sichell, H. M., 387
Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, 618
Skull and Bones, 21, 81–82, 93
Smith, Hedrick, 690
Smith, Walter Bedell, 402, 571
Snader, Lena, 66
Snader, Sadie, 66
“Snob in America, The” (Acheson), 55–56
socialism, Sovietism vs., 373–74
Sokolovsky, V. D., 457
“Some Fundamentals of Russian-American Relations” (Kennan), 167
Sophocles, 470
“Sources of Soviet Conduct, The” (Kennan), 383–85, 421–23
Souvanna Phouma, 606, 607–8, 617–18
Soviet Union, 470
Acheson’s negotiations with, 19, 219–20, 233–34
arms production in, 496, 499, 503
atom bomb and, 327–28, 480–81, 486–87, 489, 496
Berlin and, 455–59, 460–61, 472–73, 600
Bohlen as expert on, 25, 31, 59, 96, 152, 225–26, 241, 243, 453
Bohlen in, 160–66, 173–76, 246, 575–76
Bohlen’s study of, 146–47
China and, 476, 477–78, 616–17, 632, 658
Cuba and, 619–20, 623–24, 626, 628–30
Czechoslovakia and, 415–16, 439–41, 450, 720
expansionist policies of, 342, 348, 350, 351, 353–55, 365–66, 368–71, 377–82, 497–98
German reparations demanded by, 291–93, 298–99, 306–7, 454–55
German reunification and, 472
Germany’s nonaggression pact with, 175–77, 432, 484
Greece and, 388–89, 393–95, 401–2
Harriman as ambassador to, 17–18, 19, 31, 218–35, 238, 241–50, 262–64, 266, 268–69, 278, 284–85, 292, 300, 304, 329
Harriman-Beaverbrook mission to, 212–14, 234
Harriman’s financial interests in, 20, 99, 100–102, 104, 214
Harriman’s first visit to, 46
Harriman’s negotiations with, 19, 219–20, 233–34
Hopkins’ mission to, 282–87
Japan and, 277–78, 280–81, 285, 309–10, 312, 316–17, 332–34
Kennan in, 158–68, 225, 228–32, 238–41, 243, 246, 271–73, 292, 326–28, 553–54
Kennan’s Long Telegram on, 24, 31
Kennan’s study of, 147–49, 170–71
Korean War and, 506, 511–12, 526–27, 528–29, 531, 532, 549, 551–52
Marshall Plan and, 411, 413–16, 432, 435
NATO and, 447–48
Poland and, 216–17, 223–24, 229–32, 242, 244, 245–46, 247, 261, 264–67, 272–73, 283–87, 298, 307, 415–16, 727–28
postwar loans for, 219–20, 232–33, 245, 250, 278–79
secret-police methods of, 244–45, 339, 340, 353, 360, 380
Turkey and, 369–72, 388–89, 393–94
Vietnam War and, 657–58, 664–66, 672, 710, 712
see also arms control; Berlin crisis; containment
Soviet-U.S. relations:
Acheson on, 33, 136, 322–26, 339–41, 351, 362–72, 389, 394–95, 398, 402, 403, 477, 487, 502, 580–81
atomic-arms control and, 33, 302–5, 318–21, 324, 326, 327–28, 343–45, 359–62, 385, 487
Bohlen on, 174–75, 246–47, 276–77, 279–80, 287, 308, 340–41, 345, 351–52, 354–55, 363, 380–82, 403, 411, 413–14, 416, 447–49, 453, 459, 472–73, 498–99
Bohlen-Kennan disputes on, 227–28, 239–41, 246–47, 276
businessman’s approach to, 34–35, 275–76, 368, 377–78, 662
Forrestal on, 243, 262, 266, 280, 283, 308, 320–21, 343, 350–51, 355–56, 377–78, 381, 404, 414
Harriman on, 19, 244, 245, 247–50, 262, 264, 266, 268–69, 275–80, 285, 291, 303–4, 308, 322, 330, 332–33, 341, 342, 347–48, 350, 354–55, 364, 377–81, 583–84, 725–26, 728–29
Kennan on, 18, 149, 155–56, 167–68, 246, 264, 273, 284, 291–92, 326–28, 341, 344–45, 349, 351–55, 363–64, 367, 373–76, 378–85, 405, 413–14, 435–38, 446–49, 453, 470, 472, 481, 490, 495–96, 544, 553, 580, 722–23
J. F. Kennedy on, 599–600
Lippmann on, 34, 349, 355, 401, 408
Lovett on, 420, 450, 455–57, 460
McCloy on, 303, 308, 330, 333–35, 337, 339–40, 341, 517
Nitze on, 484, 489–90, 496–98, 737–38
recognition as factor in, 145, 148, 149, 154–56
Roosevelt on, 17, 18, 155–56, 164, 168, 174, 211, 227–28, 249, 260–61, 275–76
Stalin on, 332–33, 344, 349–52
Truman on, 265–68, 278–79, 287, 291, 343, 345–46, 370–71, 449, 480–81
Sparkman, John, 568–69
Special Envoy (Harriman), 84–85
Spengler, Oswald, 483–84
spheres of influence, 346
Bohlen on, 340–41
spotter planes, 201
Sputnik, 580
Stalin, Joseph, 46, 101–2, 164, 166, 173, 175, 177, 506
Berlin blockade and, 459, 461, 473
Churchill and, 215–16, 241–43, 245, 269–70
on Greek insurgency, 401–2
Harriman’s meetings with, 20, 103, 213, 216, 224, 259, 285, 303–4, 316, 329–30, 332–33, 334, 344, 347–48
Marshall Plan and, 415–16, 426
Marshall’s meeting with, 402–3
second front and, 215
speeches of, 349–52
U.S. policy of, 332–33, 344, 349–52
Standley, William, 213–14, 218, 219
State Department, U.S., 100–101, 181, 387, 447
Bohlen in, 260–61
Bohlen’s reports to, 173–76
Division of European Affairs of, 168–69
Eastern European Division of, 166–67, 168
Harriman’s reports to, 238–39, 249, 262
Kennan’s reports to, 149, 155, 156, 163, 167, 169–70, 177–78, 226, 238–39, 289–90
Marshall and, 390–91
Policy Planning Staff of, 404–5, 409–10, 448, 474, 485, 487, 489–90
Red-baiting in, 493–95, 556–57
Stein, Gertrude, 106
Steinhardt, Laurence, 213
Stennis, John, 690
Stettinius, Edward, 218, 233, 247, 258–60
Stevenson, Adlai, 559–60, 562–63, 583–84, 585, 627, 630
Stimson, Henry L., 88, 125, 180–83, 202, 428, 598
Acheson’s communications with, 391
atom bomb and, 271, 273–74, 277–78, 280–81, 293–97, 300, 301, 303–4, 308–13, 315, 318–21, 324–26, 327
Harriman’s conversations with, 188–89, 244, 277
Japanese policy of, 293–97, 300, 301, 310–13
Lovett and, 28, 197–99, 205, 337, 624, 734–35
McCloy and, 235–37, 275–76, 277, 280–81, 288–89, 293–97, 300, 301, 318, 336, 599, 734–35
McCloy and Lovett recruited by, 23, 28–29, 30, 182–83, 184–85
staff of, 191–93
Truman and, 264, 266, 273–75, 280, 297–98, 304, 319–20
Stone, I. F., 269, 322, 361 Stover at Yale (Johnson), 80
Strategic Bombing Survey, U.S., 207–8, 484–85, 489
Strong, Anna Louise, 149
Sukhoderev, Victor, 728
Sullivan, William, 616–17, 634, 636–37, 640, 727, 728
Sulzberger, C. L., 269, 474, 542
Harriman and, 249, 562, 584, 636, 661, 662, 710, 713
Sunday Night Supper, 431–32, 434, 448, 546–47
Supreme Court, U.S., 89, 116, 131, 137
Swift, Jonathan, 547
Swing, Raymond Gram, 269
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 105, 106–7, 116, 187, 264, 360–61
Symington, Stuart, 404, 445, 463, 591, 685
Taft, Robert A., 398, 401, 434, 493, 509–10, 545, 568–70
Taft, William Howard, 28, 80, 180
Taylor, Maxwell, 582, 636–37, 640, 649, 700–701
Teheran Conference (1943), 223, 225, 226
Teller, Edward, 486
Ten Days That Shook the World (Reed), 93–94, 96
Tent Life in Siberia (Kennan), 75
Thayer, Charles, 159–63, 167–68, 567, 578, 601
Thieu, Nguyen Van, 701, 711–13
Third World, 732–33 This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 72
Tibbets, Paul, 293, 297, 312, 314–15
Tilden, Bill, 121
Time, 193, 222, 260, 282, 315, 350, 398, 440, 553, 562, 643, 733
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 86
Tito (Josip Broz), 372, 402n, 406, 478
Tolstoy, Alexei, 222
Tompkins, Boylston Adams, 494
Treasury Department, U.S., 134–35
Trilateral Commission, 26–27, 726
Trotsky, Leon, Harriman’s concessions negotiations with, 20, 101–2
Trujillo, Rafael, 574
Truman, Harry S., (69, 253–54
Acheson and, 19, 136, 255, 323, 325–26, 345–46, 370–71, 372, 392–93, 463–64, 476–77, 492, 494, 505, 507–10, 519, 524, 534, 537, 539–40, 542, 549–50, 563, 570, 583–84, 591, 613, 616–17, 651–52, 674, 732
advisers of, 257–58, 265–67, 273
on aid to Greece, 394–98
arms control and, 325–26, 342–46
Berlin blockade and, 458–60
Byrnes’s conflicts with, 345–46, 390
on China, 476–77
Churchill and, 270, 281–82, 290, 302, 363
Czech crisis and, 439–41
diary of, 256, 287, 293, 309, 458, 460, 525, 542, 544, 549, 562
Forrestal’s conflicts with, 445, 458, 469
Harriman and, 17–18, 31, 263–64, 266, 281–82, 286, 376–77, 406, 454, 501–11, 519–20, 522–23, 531–32, 561, 562, 585, 727
on hydrogen bomb, 486, 490, 492
Iranian crisis and, 366–67
Japanese strategy of, 293, 295, 310, 312
Kennan’s Soviet views and, 18, 273
J. F. Kennedy and, 591
Korean War and, 505, 507–9, 512, 519–20, 530, 533–34, 536–37, 541, 543–44, 548–49
Lovett’s communications with, 417, 522, 525, 597
MacArthur and, 522–24, 534, 536, 548–50
McCloy and, 288–89, 295–97, 515–16
Marshall Plan and, 410, 420, 424, 441–42
1948 election and, 451, 461, 520
NSC-68 and, 499–500, 502–4, 509–10
Palestinian issue and, 451–53
press and, 259–60, 346, 410, 413, 504, 543
Roosevelt compared to, 255–57, 260, 267–68
Soviet policies of, 265–68, 278–79, 287, 291, 343, 345–46, 370–71, 375–76, 449, 480–81
Stimson and, 264, 266, 273–75, 280, 297–98, 304, 319–20
Truman Doctrine and, 22, 395–99
Turkish Straits crisis and, 370–71
V-E Day and, 270–71
Truman, Margaret, 439
Truman Doctrine, 370
Acheson’s role in drafting of, 19, 31, 395–96, 398–402
anti-Communism and, 398–99, 400, 401
Kennan’s criticism of, 396–98, 422–23
Vandenberg Amendment to, 400
Vietnam War and, 398, 401, 502, 661
Turkey:
Soviet Union and, 369–72, 388–89, 393–94
U.S. and, 369–72, 387–89, 393–402
Tydings, Millard, 501
Union Pacific Railroad, 20, 21, 41, 64, 84, 108, 113–15
United American Lines, 99
United Nations (U.N.), 386–87, 473, 477–78, 528, 627, 630
Acheson on, 126, 323, 400, 528
atomic control and, 343–45, 356–61
Palestinian issue and, 451, 453
San Francisco grand opening of, 259–60, 266, 268–70, 275–76, 282, 567
Soviet-U.S. relations and, 351, 361–62, 367
Truman Doctrine and, 400
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), 219–20
United States:
Great Britain and, 362–65
Greek stability and, 387–89, 393–402
hydrogen bomb and, 486–90
Korean War casualties of, 541, 552
Occupied Germany administered by, 515–16
postwar-policy Establishment of, 25–31, 428, 725, 739–41
Red-hunting in, 127–28, 398–99
Turkish stability and, 369–72, 387–89, 393–402
United States and World Affairsy, The, 475
United States Relations with China, with Special Reference to the Period 1944–1949, 476
“U.S. in World Politics, The” (M. Bundy), 654
U.S. News & World Report, 291
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 667–68
U-2 incident, 600
Vance, Cyrus, 698, 700, 707–12, 725–27, 733, 735–36
Vandenberg, Arthur, 220, 268, 269, 324, 326, 343, 345, 364, 417, 530, 560
Acheson’s relationship with, 467–68
Lovett’s meetings with, 425–26, 428, 450
Marshall Plan and, 409–10, 424–26, 428, 441
Truman Doctrine and, 395, 399–400
Vandenberg Resolution, 450
V-E Day, 270–72
Versailles Treaty (1919), 180
Vietnam, Democratic Republic of (North), 618
bombing of, 641, 656, 659–60, 665, 669–70, 672–73, 679, 683, 689, 695, 704–5, 710–12, 717
Harriman as negotiator to, 706–13
Harriman’s secret missions to, 636, 666, 709
Vietnam, Republic of (South):
coups in, 646–47
U.S. support for, 635–36, 647, 680, 697
Acheson and, 22, 648–54, 656, 668–69, 675, 678–79, 681, 692–98, 701–3, 715, 717–18
Ball and, 637–39, 643, 647–49, 680, 700, 711
Bohlen on, 671–72
M. Bundy and, 650, 654, 679–80, 697–98, 702, 724
W. Bundy and, 650, 651, 653–57, 698–99, 711–12, 714–15
casualties in, 685, 690–91, 694, 699–700
Clifford on, 680, 687–91, 699–700, 704–6
counterinsurgency proposed for, 637–38
de-escalation of, 705–6
demonstrations against, 678, 684–85, 710–11, 714–16, 720
escalation of, 648, 649–50, 656, 657–58, 670–71, 714–15
Harriman and, 22, 634–41, 657–66, 681–82, 691–93, 701–2, 706, 715, 725
Johnson and, 208, 640–41, 642–43, 647–56, 660, 662–66, 668–73, 676–89, 691, 694–705, 710–12
Kennan’s opposition to, 666–69, 724
J. F. Kennedy and, 635–41
Korean War compared to, 679, 682–83, 693, 698
Lovett on, 650–51, 669–70, 677–78
McCloy and, 647–48, 650–51, 673, 677–78
McNamara on, 639–40, 649, 659, 669, 670, 676, 683, 684, 724
Paris Peace Talks on, 82, 635, 708–13
political solutions sought for, 649, 657–61, 663–66, 680–81, 684, 702, 705–13
public relations campaign for, 680
Rostow and, 637, 641, 664–65, 670, 678, 687, 694, 698, 700, 701
Rusk and, 637, 639, 640, 655, 664–65, 668, 678, 703–4
Soviet Union and, 657–58, 664–66, 672, 710, 712
Tet offensive in, 685, 693, 694, 696–97, 699–701, 703, 709
Truman Doctrine and, 398, 401, 502, 661
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 148
Vincent, John, 89
Vincent, John Carter, 557, 565
Vinson, Fred, 321n
Vishinsky, Andrei, 173–74, 231, 234, 246, 273, 402
V-J Day, 317
Vogue, 382
Vorys, John, 427
Walker, Joseph, III, 55, 85, 86
Wallace, Henry A., 321, 349, 363–64, 374, 376–77, 448
War Department, U.S., 190
Heavenly Twins of, 18, 30, 192–93, 236–37, 337, 734–35
Lovett in, 192–96, 201, 202–9, 291–92, 309, 315
Lovett’s reports to, 184–85
McCloy in, 192–202, 235–38, 244
Wardwell, Allen, 214
War Labor Board, Acheson on, 89
Warsaw uprising (1944), 230–32
Washington Post, 193, 361, 440, 449, 516–17, 681, 715, 736
Wedemeyer, Albert, 458
Westmoreland, William C., 680, 686–87, 689, 694, 696, 701
Wherry, Kenneth, 475–76, 492, 494, 530–31, 545–46
White, Lincoln, 412
White, Theodore H., 442–43, 585
White, William Allen, 185
Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt, 106
Whitney, Richard, 131
Willett, Edward, 383
William II, Emperor of Germany, 95
Willoughby, Charles, 536–37
Wilson, Charles E., 570
Wilson, Earl, 269
Wilson, Hugh, 142
Wilson, Woodrow, 28, 80, 84, 98, 104, 125, 154, 156
Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 696
Johnson and, 644–46, 650–53, 676–81, 696, 698–703
Wister, Owen, 95
Witness to History (Bohlen and Phelps), 720–21
Woodin, William, 134
Wooley, Knight, 110–11
Woollcott, Alexander, 106–7
World Bank, 23, 68, 426, 428–29
Wrubel, Isaac, 52
Wyman, David, 201
Yale Review, 154
Yale Unit, Lovett as pilot in, 90–93, 205
Yale University, 20–22, 80–87, 90, 93, 109
Yalta Conference (1945), 19, 245–47, 291
Yalu River, 535–36, 539–40, 548
Yost, Charles, 430
Yugoslavia, 666–67
Greek insurgents supported by, 401–2
U.S. planes downed by, 372
Zinsser, Frederick and Emma Scharman, 122