Leahy, William, 346, 350

Leffingwell, Russell, 414–15

LeMay, Curtis, 293, 294, 458–59

Lemnitzer, Lyman, 607, 641

Lend-Lease, 195, 232, 278–79

Acheson’s negotiations on, 19, 219–20, 233–34

Harriman and, 19, 212, 214–20, 233–34

Lenin, V. I., 101, 156, 384, 632

Leva, Marx, 465, 469–70

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

Lourie, Donald, 564–65, 569

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

as administrator, 21, 555–56

ambition of, 21, 337, 555

appearance of, 60, 62, 108

articles written by, 116

awards of, 92, 337

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

speeches of, 206, 421

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

MacArthur, Douglas, 293, 317

Acheson and, 323, 477–78, 506, 522–24, 531, 537, 543–45, 551

China and, 521–24

firing of, 544, 549–51

Harriman and, 522–24, 531–32, 534, 540–41

Japan administered by, 484–85, 520–21

Kennan and, 521, 529

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, Eugene, 660, 690

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

McCloy and, 564, 571

Nitze and, 564, 570

Truman and, 494, 550

McCarthyism, 556, 583

McClellan, George, 694

McCloy, Anna May Snader, 65–67, 69, 70–71

McCloy, Ellen Zinsser, 69, 122–23, 193, 305

McCloy, John, Sr., 66, 67

McCloy, John J., Jr.:

Acheson and, 186, 324–25, 334, 493, 513–15, 518, 592, 614

awards of, 68, 336

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

early employment of, 67, 69

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

Maclean, Donald, 447, 454

MacLeish, Archibald, 85, 87, 91, 92–93, 109, 189, 311, 477, 545, 591, 654–55

MacLeish, Kenneth, 91, 92–93, 109

McLeod, Scott, 564–65, 567

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

Harriman and, 659, 664

J. F. Kennedy and, 597–98

on Laotian crisis, 607

Lovett and, 209, 596–97, 669

Vietnam War and, 639–40, 649, 659, 669, 670, 676, 683, 684, 724

McPherson, Harry, 704

MacVeagh, Lincoln, 388

Malenkov, Georgi, 575–77

Malik, Yakov, 473, 552

Manchester, William, 548

Manchester Union-Leader, 564–65

Mansfield, Mike, 717

Mao Tse-tung, 390, 506, 535

Marks, Anne Wilson, 360

Marks, Herbert, 326, 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

Soviet policy of, 403, 449

speeches of, 403, 411–14

Stalin’s meeting with, 402–3

Truman and, 525, 550

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

Marxism, 96, 149, 162, 240

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

Miall, Leonard, 412, 413

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

Truman and, 264, 265, 266–67

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

Morgan, J. P., 41, 122

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

Mundt, Karl, 400, 491–92

Murphy, Charles, 103, 503

Murphy, Gerald, 85

Murphy, Robert, 456

Mussolini, Benito, 103

Nagasaki, 316

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 573, 581

Nation, 148, 322

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 Yorker, 132, 181

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

Bohlen and, 95, 498–99

Dulles and, 502, 527–28, 570

on Establishment, 27

Forrestal and, 483, 484

Harriman and, 585, 619

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

McCarthy and, 564, 570

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

on Vietnam War, 670–71, 685

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

Lovett and, 497, 500, 501–2

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

O’Donnell, Kenneth, 623, 640

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

Parker, Dorothy, 107, 109

Patterson, Robert, 192, 325, 428

Patton, George, 159, 196

Pauley, Edwin, 291–93, 300–301

Peabody, Endicott, 30, 46–50, 54–55, 57, 598

Pearson, Drew, 442, 469, 591

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

Phoumi Nosavan, 606–7, 617

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

Kennan on, 229–30, 298

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

Porcellian Club, 94–95, 96

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

Pound, Roscoe, 70, 89

Power and Diplomacy (Acheson), 590

Prague, Bohlen in, 143–44

Pravda, 169, 369, 555, 576

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

Rayburn, Sam, 253–54, 365

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

Kennan and, 399, 557

Lovett on, 427

Reed, John, 93–94, 96

Reed, Norman, 63

Republicans, Republican Party, 100, 104

Acheson and, 133, 545–47, 551

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

Ridgway, Matthew, 548, 551

Riga, Kennan in, 149–50, 152–55

Robertson, Walter, 565, 601

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

McCloy and, 29, 201–2, 515

Occupied Germany and, 236, 237

Soviet policy of, 17, 18, 155–56, 164, 168, 174, 211, 227–28, 249, 260–61, 275–76

speeches of, 186–87, 195

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

Rostow, Walt, 507, 607

Vietnam War and, 637, 641, 664–65, 670, 678, 687, 694, 698, 700, 701

Rovere, Richard, on Establishment, 27–28

Rowe, James, 199, 204, 695

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

McCloy and, 594–95, 647

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

Schuman, Robert, 443, 510

Schuman Plan, 443, 478

Schurman, Jacob Gould, 100–101

Schwartz, Thomas, 517

Scott, Hugh, 530

Seaborg, Glenn, 631

Service, John Stewart, 557

Sevareid, Eric, 196, 350

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

Sidey, Hugh, 643, 733

Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, 618

Skull and Bones, 21, 81–82, 93

Smith, Al, 105, 133

Smith, H. Alexander, 403, 421

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

Iran and, 344, 356, 365–68

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 interest in, 76, 144

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

Laos and, 600, 608

Marshall Plan and, 411, 413–16, 432, 435

NATO and, 447–48

NSC–68 and, 496–98, 502–3

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

purge trials in, 167, 173–74

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

war goals of, 238–40, 244

West Germany and, 513–15, 517

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

Dulles on, 562–63, 576–77

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

Marshall on, 403, 449

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

U.N. and, 351, 361–62, 367

Sparkman, John, 568–69

Special Envoy (Harriman), 84–85

Speer, Albert, 195, 207–8

Spengler, Oswald, 483–84

spheres of influence, 346

Balkans as, 241–43, 246, 262

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

Bohlen and, 241, 245, 576

Churchill and, 215–16, 241–43, 245, 269–70

death of, 575, 576–77

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

Kennan and, 326–27, 553–55

Marshall Plan and, 415–16, 426

Marshall’s meeting with, 402–3

Poland and, 230–32, 283–86

second front and, 215

speeches of, 349–52

Truman and, 273, 304–5, 459

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

Steel, Ronald, 401, 408, 722

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

Suez crisis (1956), 572, 581

Sukhoderev, Victor, 728

Sullivan, William, 616–17, 634, 636–37, 640, 727, 728

Sulzberger, C. L., 269, 474, 542

Acheson and, 715, 718–19

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

Swatland, Donald, 119, 120

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

Taber, John, 398–99, 433–34

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

Thompson, Llewellyn, 308, 624

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

Today, 113, 116

Tolstoy, Alexei, 222

Tompkins, Boylston Adams, 494

Treasury Department, U.S., 134–35

Trilateral Commission, 26–27, 726

Trippe, Juan, 203, 204

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

Bohlen and, 19, 261, 281, 511

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

McCarthy and, 494, 550

McCloy and, 288–89, 295–97, 515–16

Marshall and, 525, 550

Marshall Plan and, 410, 420, 424, 441–42

memoirs of, 312, 524

Molotov and, 264, 265, 266–67

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

speeches of, 395–98, 441, 732

Stalin and, 273, 304–5, 459

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

Truman and, 22, 395–99

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

China and, 529–30, 565

Korean War and, 507, 533–34

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:

global role of, 362–73, 725

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

Valenti, Jack, 657, 660

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, Hoyt, 328, 458–49

Vandenberg Resolution, 450

V-E Day, 270–72

Versailles Treaty (1919), 180

Vietnam, 478–79, 529, 634–35

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

China and, 655, 658

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

Vietnam War, 20, 34, 208

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

Galbraith on, 27, 635

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

Nitze on, 670–71, 685

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

Walker, Walton, 526, 540

Wallace, Henry A., 321, 349, 363–64, 374, 376–77, 448

Warburg, J. P., 116, 134

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

Warnke, Paul, 713, 738

Warsaw uprising (1944), 230–32

Washington, George, 179, 447

Washington Post, 193, 361, 440, 449, 516–17, 681, 715, 736

Webb, Jim, 530–31, 542

Wedemeyer, Albert, 458

Westmoreland, William C., 680, 686–87, 689, 694, 696, 701

Wheeler, Earle, 678, 701–2

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

Wilcox, Francis, 450, 467

Willett, Edward, 383

William II, Emperor of Germany, 95

Willkie, Wendell, 186, 188

Willoughby, Charles, 536–37

Wilson, Charles E., 570

Wilson, Earl, 269

Wilson, Hugh, 142

Wilson, Woodrow, 28, 80, 84, 98, 104, 125, 154, 156

Winchell, Walter, 417–18, 469

Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 696

Wise Men, 20, 28, 30, 122

Johnson and, 644–46, 650–53, 676–81, 696, 698–703

Wisner, Frank, 448, 454

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

X-Article, 383–85, 421–23

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

Yergin, Daniel, 146, 416, 460

Yost, Charles, 430

Yugoslavia, 666–67

Greek insurgents supported by, 401–2

U.S. planes downed by, 372

Zhukov, Georgi, 305, 317–18

Zinsser, Frederick and Emma Scharman, 122

Zorin, Valerian A., 630, 710