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Abramson, Rudy, 203
Abyssinia, 18
Acheson, Dean, 9, 99
Africa, 221, 241, 270
Harriman in, 242–46, 251
Alexander, A. V., 84
Alison, John R., 286, 288, 290, 292, 312
America First, 95, 153–54
“American Century, The” (Luce), 149
American Magazine, 282, 307, 335
Andrews, Cicely (Rebecca West), 186, 195
Andrews, Henry, 186
Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,” 208, 322
Asia, 9, 64, 103, 146, 251, 252, 342
China, 18, 229
Indochina, 251, 252, 271–72, 302
Japan, see Japan
Asquith, H. H., 273
Astor, Nancy, 86, 131
Atlantic Charter, 326–27, 329
Atlantic Clipper, 80–81, 214–15
Atlantic Conference, 257, 268–71, 282, 313, 315, 321–33, 335
Churchill and Hopkins’s voyage to, 316–20
Atlantic Ocean, 216, 218, 220–22, 229, 251–52, 256, 278
Attlee, Clement, 52
Auchinleck, Claude, 245
Augusta, USS, 321
Australia, 342
Austria, 18, 36, 55, 57
Azores, 80, 169, 188, 214–15, 220
Balchen, Bernt, 168
Bankhead, Tallulah, 266
Bankhead, William B., 97, 111
Battle of Britain, 8, 82, 99, 103, 352
Battle of the Atlantic, 216, 218, 220–22
Beaton, Cecil, 138, 171, 173
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Lord, 96, 138, 227, 239, 338
at Atlantic Conference, 324, 331
Willkie and, 175, 196
Belgium, 64, 65
Berezhkov, Valentin, 298, 308, 309
Berle, Adolf A., 252
Berlin, Isaiah, 11, 351, 354
Berry, Homer, 168–69
Bevin, Ernest, 87, 93, 212
Biddle, Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., 214, 215
Birmingham, England, 182, 185
Bismarck, 234–35, 247, 315
Blitzkrieg, 64, 138, 143, 171, 180, 182, 225–26, 237
Blum, Léon, 49, 64
Bohlen, Charles, 309
Bolama, 188
Bonham Carter, Maurice, 272
Bonham Carter, Violet, 272, 273
Borah, William, 20
Boston Sunday Globe, 108
Bourke-White, Margaret, 300–303
Stalin and, 306–7
Bracken, Brendan, 87, 90, 96, 117, 122, 125, 129, 265
Hopkins and, 117, 204
Brand, Thomas, 167, 180, 196
Bristol, 223–25
Britain, 20
air attacks on, 138, 143, 171, 180, 182, 219–20, 222–26, 232, 239, 249, 259, 300
Battle of Britain, 8, 82, 99, 103, 352
Battle of the Atlantic, 216, 218, 220–22
Birmingham, 182, 185
Bristol, 223–25
destroyers-bases agreement with, 99–100, 103, 218
Coventry, 181–82, 185
declaration of war against Japan, 346
Donovan in, 63, 76–102, 165, 205, 333, 353, 355
fifth-column activities in, 76, 77, 79
food shortages in, 176, 209, 210, 215, 237–38, 263
Fourth of July celebrations in, 259–60
German assault on shipping, 216, 220
and German invasion of Soviet Union, 253
Germany’s war with, 2, 52, 77, 82–83, 88
Harriman in, 199, 206–11, 213–30, 232–34, 237–41, 248–50, 311
Hopkins in (January–February 1941), 112–20, 122–52, 161, 164, 165, 175, 199, 205
Hopkins in (July 1941), 248, 255–78
invasion threat to, 82, 140, 142, 216, 252
Italy and, 64
Japan and, 146
Lend-Lease program and, see Lend-Lease
London, see London, England
Manchester, 182–83
Middle East and, see Middle East
military strength of, 83, 88, 114
in Munich Agreement, 18, 19, 51
Scotland, 131–36, 236, 256, 259
Soviet Union aided by, 284, 304, 335, 338
Swansea, 222–23
triangular relationship between U.S., Soviet Union and, 336, 352
U.S. aid to, 64–66, 75, 210, 217–18, 220–22, 252, 311; see also Lend-Lease
and U.S. extension of security zone, 220–21, 256
U.S. relationship with, 100–101, 146, 259–60, 277, 278, 354–55
Welles in, 26–33, 50–56, 165
Willkie in, 160–88, 191, 193–96, 353
Brittain, Vera, 175
Brooke, Alan, 87
Brooks, James, 119
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., 6, 201
Bruce, Stanley, 116–17, 207, 261
“Building of the Ship, The” (Longfellow), 164, 330
Bullitt, William C., 1–2, 19, 31, 50, 61, 112, 229
Welles and, 231, 348
Burke, Edmund, 90
Burke, Edward R., 75, 95–96, 225
Burns, James MacGregor, 12
Business Advisory Council, 204–5
Butler, Nevile, 115
Cadogan, Alex, 32, 52, 101, 261, 267, 315, 329
Cairo, Egypt, 244–46
Campbell, Ronald, 50, 122
Canada, 193
Casey, Richard, 80, 116, 117, 193, 235
Castle, William R., 118
Cavanaugh, John, 264
Cecil, David, 5–6
Century Group, 99
Chamberlain, Neville, 2, 20, 29, 39, 51, 56, 57, 182
Churchill’s replacing of, 63, 82
Kennedy and, 52
Welles and, 32, 51, 52, 54–56
Chaney, James E., 269, 271
Channon, Henry “Chips,” 169, 171
Chequers, 128, 135–36, 139, 146, 167, 181, 215, 228, 234, 253, 264–66, 272, 284
Cherwell, Frederick Lindemann, Lord, 129, 140, 221, 265, 272, 315, 329
Chiang, Madame, 349
Chiang Kai-shek, 349
Chicago Daily News, 73, 77, 79, 266
Chicago Daily Tribune, 30, 45, 52–53, 96, 118, 153, 161, 172, 190, 193, 262, 280, 328
Childs, Marquis, 115
China, 18, 229
Christian Science Monitor, 328
Churchill, Clementine, 132, 135, 167, 173, 215, 219, 228, 233, 249, 265, 273–75, 331
Churchill, Jack, 140
Churchill, Mary, 135, 149–50, 219, 233, 274
Churchill, Pamela Digby, see Harriman, Pamela Digby (Churchill)
Churchill, Randolph (father of prime minister), 224
Churchill, Randolph (son of prime minister), 226–27, 246
Churchill, Sarah, 351
Churchill, Winston, 8, 18, 19, 39, 56, 82, 87, 93, 96, 102, 213, 244, 274–75, 336, 346–47
Atlantic Charter and, 326–27
at Atlantic Conference, 257, 268–71, 282, 313, 322–30
Atlantic Conference voyage of, 316–20
in bath story, 354
in Big Three, 8, 304, 347
Bismarck and, 234–35
in Bristol, 223–25
Chamberlain replaced by, 63, 82
at Chequers, 128, 135–36, 139, 146, 167, 181, 215, 228, 234, 253, 264–66, 272, 284
at Ditchley, 128–33
Donovan and, 84–87
on FDR, 10
FDR’s communications with, 20, 77–78, 104, 112, 126–27, 136, 141–42, 150, 164, 165, 167, 174, 189, 196, 218, 268, 315–16
FDR’s first meeting of, 257
films watched by, 266, 317–18
and German invasion of Soviet Union, 253
Harriman and, 201, 205, 209, 215–16, 218–19, 221–22, 240, 248–49
Harriman’s Middle East tour and, 241–42
Hopkins and, 4, 112–14, 116–17, 122, 123, 125–42, 145–52, 235, 261, 263–75, 278, 315, 331–32, 336, 353
Hopkins’s Moscow mission and, 315–19
Lend-Lease and, 214, 240, 267–68, 352
Pearl Harbor and, 342–43
in Scotland, 131–36
Soviet aid and, 335
speeches of, 63–64, 100–101, 123, 126, 129, 146–47, 189–90, 196–97, 272
Stalin and, 284–85, 353
in Swansea, 222–23
Wavell’s Middle Eastern campaign and, 140, 245
weekend routine of, 130–31
Welles’s meeting with, 53–54
Willkie and, 166–67, 173–75, 181, 184, 186–88, 195, 196, 349
Churchill, Winston (grandson of prime minister), 227, 330
Ciano, Galeazzo, 35, 57, 58
Citizen Kane, 266
Civil Works Administration (CWA), 107
Clapper, Raymond, 118, 158, 320
Clare, 89–90
Clark, Bennett C., 191
Clark, Grenville, 75
Clifford, J. Garry, 65, 98
Clinton, Bill, 351–52
Clippers, 80–82, 169, 188
Clough, Arthur Henry, 196
Cole, Wayne S., 98, 153, 338
Collier’s, 232, 272, 283
Colville, John, 127, 129, 139, 140, 221, 226, 228, 253, 261, 265, 266
Commonwealth & Southern (C&S), 5, 6, 156–57
communists, 253–54, 279
Comrade X, 318
Conant, James B., 75, 190, 224
conscription, see selective service
Coolidge, Calvin, 23, 72
Cooper, Diana, 86
Cooper, Duff, 86
Coventry, England, 181–82, 185
Cowles, John, Jr., 168, 186
Coy, Wayne, 311
Crete, 229, 241, 243, 265
Cripps, Stafford, 291, 293, 302, 307–8, 311, 312
Cudlipp, Percy, 138, 139
Cuff Links Gang, 144–45
Cunningham, Andrew, 246
Czechoslovakia, 18, 19, 36, 54, 55, 57, 63
Kennedy’s securities sale and, 136–37
Daily Herald, 127, 138
Daily Mail, 142
Daily Telegraph, 263
Daily Worker, 175, 176, 254
Daladier, Édouard, 29, 48–49, 52, 64
Dallek, Robert, 229, 351, 353
Dalton, Hugh, 87
Davenport, Russell, 5, 157, 168, 183–84
Davies, Joseph, 30–31, 280, 293, 305
Day, Stephen A., 302
De Gaulle, Charles, 347
Denmark, 63
Depression, Great, 10, 17, 106
destroyers-bases agreement, 99–100, 103, 218
De Valera, Éamon, 183–85
Devil and Miss Jones, The, 317
Dewey, Thomas E., 157, 158
Dill, John, 241, 268, 270, 315, 329
DiMaggio, Joe, 230–31
Ditchley, 128–33
Dixie Clipper, 81, 188
Donovan, Anna Letitia Lennon, 67
Donovan, Patricia, 69
death of, 74, 75, 76
Donovan, Ruth Rumsey, 68, 69, 71, 72, 75, 80, 204
Donovan, Timothy, 67
Donovan, Timothy, Jr., 67
Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,” 4, 7, 8, 66–74, 95–96, 98, 101, 114, 215, 313, 348–49, 352, 355, 356
appointed assistant attorney general, 72
appointed Coordinator of Information, 257–58
background of, 67
birth of, 67
British mission of, 63, 76–102, 165, 205, 333, 353, 355
character of, 66–67, 74
Churchill and, 84–87
daughter’s death and, 74, 75, 76
death of, 349
early life of, 67–68
FDR and, 67, 68, 73–75, 92–93, 98–102
on FDR tour, 92–94, 159
gubernatorial campaign of, 72–73
Kennedy and, 77–78, 85–86, 97, 99, 101
Knox and, 75, 76, 78–80, 90–93, 95, 98–99
law practice of, 66, 68, 71–73
Mussolini and, 73
nickname of, 69, 74
and outbreak of World War II, 2–3
Pearl Harbor and, 340–41, 345
physical appearance of, 74
report on fact-finding mission, 90–91
Saturn Club raid and, 72
selective service and, 75–76, 98
Theodore Roosevelt and, 69, 71
in World War I, 66, 68–71, 74–76
on Yukon expedition, 2–3, 73
draft, see selective service
Dublin, Ireland, 183–85
Duffy, Francis, 4, 69, 71
Duncannon, Lord, 233
Early, Steve, 60, 112, 144, 149
Eden, Anthony, 26, 124, 146, 267, 329
Willkie and, 172–73
Egypt, 10, 140, 220, 241, 244–45, 263, 277
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 349
Eisenstein, Sergei, 309
Elizabeth I, Queen, 12–13, 142–44, 178, 185–86, 223
England, see Britain
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 167
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 90, 139, 231, 258
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), 107
fifth-columnists, 76, 77, 79, 96
Fighting 69th, The, 74
Finland, 20, 52, 292, 296
Fiske, William Meade Lindsay, III, 260
Fleming, Ian, 85, 258
Forrestal, James V., 195
Fortune, 5, 157
Foy, Byron, 341
France, 20
fall of, 8, 66, 82, 103, 237, 352, 353
Germany’s war with, 2, 8, 44–45, 64, 66, 77, 82, 237, 352, 353
Italy and, 64
in Munich Agreement, 18, 19, 49
U.S. rearmament and aid to, 64–66, 75
Welles in, 26–33, 44–50, 56–57, 64
Frankfurter, Felix, 112, 115–18, 124, 161, 206, 212, 266
Freeman, Wilfred, 315
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 243
George VI, King, 12–13, 142–44, 184, 185–86, 195, 243, 268, 322–23
Gerard, Teddy, 203
Germany, 9, 18, 20, 30, 36, 174, 344
Bismarck and, 234–35, 315
Blitzkrieg of, 64, 138, 143, 171, 180, 182, 225–26, 237
Britain’s war with, 2, 52, 77, 82–83, 88
British shipping and, 216, 220
France’s war with, 2, 8, 44–45, 64, 66, 77, 82, 237, 352, 353
Italy and, 44, 57–58
Japan and, 64
Kristallnacht in, 18, 31
Lindbergh’s speech and, 90
Munich Agreement and, 18, 19, 29, 49, 51
naval combat extended by, 218
peace negotiations with, 28–30, 41, 43–44, 52, 54–55, 58, 60, 61
Poland invaded by, 1–2, 4, 5, 19, 36, 38–39, 54, 55, 57, 63
Soviet Union invaded by, 8, 142, 252–56, 279–81, 295–97, 299–308, 309–10, 319–20, 332, 333, 352, 353
Soviet Union’s nonaggression pact with, 19, 297
in Tripartite Pact, 103
U.S. war with, 221, 337–38
Welles in, 26–33, 37–44, 50
Gerry, Peter Goelet, 23
Ghormley, Robert L., 269
Gibraltar, 247
Gigli, Beniamino, 59
Gilmore, Eddy, 168, 169, 195–96, 349–50
Gilmore, Victoria Wendell, 350
Godfrey, John, 84, 85, 88, 258
Goebbels, Joseph, 32, 37, 38, 65, 77, 187
Good Friday Raid, 223
Göring, Hermann, 42–43
Gort, John Vereker, Lord, 247
gradualists, 252
Great Britain, see Britain
Greece, 216, 220, 241
Greenland, 220
Greer, USS, 337
Gromyko, Andrei, 350
Groton School, 22
Gulf of Aden, 221
Guinzburg, Harold, 161
Halifax, E. F. L. Wood, Lord, 54–56, 57, 91, 131–33, 141, 149, 165, 172, 193, 206, 239, 258
Hopkins and, 124–25
Hamilton, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of, 232–33
Harriman, Averell, 6, 8, 148, 199–207, 235, 265, 267, 269, 271, 272, 285, 309, 310, 319, 338, 350, 352–54, 356
in Africa, 242–46, 251
at Atlantic Conference, 322, 323, 327, 328–31
birth of, 199
in Bristol, 223–25
in Britain, 199, 206–11, 213–30, 232–34, 237–41, 248–50, 311
at Brown Brothers Harriman, 6, 201
in Cairo, 244–46
campaign contributions of, 210–11
career of, 200–201, 351
character of, 202, 219, 250
childhood of, 200
Churchill and, 201, 205, 209, 215–16, 218–19, 221–22, 240, 248–49
death of, 351
hobbies of, 201–2
Hopkins and, 6–7, 204–5, 207, 208, 217–18, 221, 237–38, 250, 261, 263–64, 268, 351
Mary Churchill and, 233
in Middle East, 241–48, 251
Pamela Churchill’s affair with, 226–29, 246
Pearl Harbor and, 342–43
physical appearance of, 202–3
Randolph Churchill and, 246
Roosevelt family and, 204
in Swansea, 222–23
at Union Pacific, 6, 200, 203
Winant and, 238–40, 250, 257, 271
Harriman, E. H., 199–200, 204
Harriman, Kathleen, 228, 232, 265, 266, 272, 285, 330, 342
Harriman, Kitty Lanier Lawrance, 203
Harriman, Marie Norton Whitney, 203, 218–19, 226, 228, 229, 232, 242–45
Harriman, Mary Williamson Averell, 200
Harriman, Pamela Digby (Churchill), 226–29, 246, 323, 329–30, 342, 351–52
Averell’s marriage to, 351
death of, 352
Hearst, William Randolph, 266
Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 341
Heinrichs, Waldo, 17, 64, 150
Hemingway, Ernest, 209
Hess, Rudolf, 42, 232–33, 265
High Sierra, 317
Hitler, Adolf, 5, 7, 8, 18–19, 29, 30, 32–33, 38, 40, 43, 44, 49, 52, 54–55, 57, 58, 63, 64, 77, 82, 125, 130, 139, 142, 153, 158, 172–73, 252, 262, 284–85, 297, 305, 335, 340, 343, 353
death of, 346
Mussolini and, 28, 37, 58, 61, 142
naval combat extended by, 218
Stalin and, 254, 283, 297, 307, 320
Welles’s meeting with, 39–42, 44, 62
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 320
Hoover, Herbert, 72, 74, 75, 193, 258
Hoover, J. Edgar, 139, 231
Hopkins, Anna Pickett, 105, 106
Hopkins, Barbara Duncan, 106, 109
Hopkins, David (son of Harry), 148
Hopkins, David “Al” (father of Harry), 105–6
Hopkins, Diana, 147, 303, 318–19
Hopkins, Harry, 3–4, 8, 12, 47, 81, 93, 94, 105–11, 121, 178, 189, 190, 195, 206–7, 216, 229, 230, 235–38, 242, 255, 338, 342, 346–47, 351, 354, 355, 356
at Atlantic Conference, 268–71, 282, 322–23, 327–29, 331, 333
Atlantic Conference voyage of, 316–20
birth of, 105
Bracken and, 117, 204
in Britain (January–February 1941), 112–20, 122–52, 161, 164, 165, 175, 199, 205
in Britain (July 1941), 248, 255–78
career of, 106–7
character of, 107–9
Churchill and, 4, 112–14, 116–17, 122, 123, 125–42, 145–52, 235, 261, 263–75, 278, 315, 331–32, 336, 353
death of, 347–48
FDR and, 106–11, 151, 164, 235, 353
and German invasion of Soviet Union, 279–81
Harriman and, 6–7, 204–5, 207, 208, 217–18, 221, 237–38, 250, 261, 263–64, 268, 351
hats of, 264–65, 288, 315, 328
ill health of, 4, 109–10, 122, 255, 273, 289, 292, 309, 313–14, 347
and King and Queen of England, 142–44
Moscow mission for FDR, 280–318, 323–24, 333–36, 353
Moscow mission for Truman, 347
and outbreak of World War II, 4
Pearl Harbor and, 339–40, 343–45
physical appearance of, 108
at Placentia Bay, 320–21, 333
in Scotland, 131–36
speeches of, 134–35, 139, 273–78
Stalin’s meeting with, 282–84, 294–99, 302–11, 319–20, 324, 332–36, 338, 353
Stalin’s regard for, 309
White House residency of, 110–11, 347
Hopkins, Ethel Gross, 106
Hopkins, Louise, 347
Hopkins, Robert, 347
Horta, Azores, 169
House, Edward M., 14
Howard, Dick, 182
Howard, Roy, 161
Howe, Louis, 13, 107
Hull, Cordell, 2, 9, 14, 30, 33, 47, 59, 60, 76, 78, 101, 111, 179, 208, 322, 329, 339, 348
character of, 24–25
FDR and, 25
illnesses of, 25
Kennedy and, 78–79
Nomura and, 229, 251, 256
Pearl Harbor and, 340
physical appearance of, 24
trade treaties and, 25
Welles and, 24–25, 61
Willkie and, 162
Iceland, 252, 256
Ickes, Harold L., 12, 26, 107, 109, 118, 150, 166, 192, 230, 239, 251–52, 259, 278, 310, 311
Illustrated London News, 82
immediatists, 252
Indochina, 251, 252, 271–72, 302
intelligence operations, 258, 349
International Labour Office (ILO), 81, 206, 211–12
Iraq, 245
Ireland, 236
Willkie in, 183–85, 194
Iriye, Akira, 339
Ismay, Hastings, 132, 134, 223–24, 265, 335
isolationism, 3, 9, 12, 17, 28, 30, 95, 96, 98, 153–54, 158, 210, 230, 263, 353
and German invasion of Soviet Union, 254, 279
Pearl Harbor and, 346
Willkie and, 160, 161, 189
Italy, 18, 36
Britain and, 64
France and, 64
Germany and, 44, 57–58
Japan and, 64
in Tripartite Pact, 103
Welles in, 26–37, 57–59, 61
Jackson Citizen Patriot, 158
Jacquot brothers, 3
Japan, 9, 18, 104, 174, 229, 251, 252, 261, 271–72, 302–3, 326, 338–39, 342
Atlantic Conference and, 326
Britain and, 146
Britain’s declaration of war against, 346
Germany and, 64
Italy and, 64
Pearl Harbor attack of, 8, 12, 174, 339–45, 352
Soviet neutrality pact with, 220, 302
Soviet Union and, 302
in Tripartite Pact, 103
U.S. declaration of war against, 344–46
Jervis Bay, HMS, 145–46
Jews, 18–19, 39, 49
Johnson, Herschel, 123, 151, 166, 207, 240
Johnson, Hiram, 96, 325
Johnson, Lyndon B., 351
Johnston, Tom, 134
Jones, Emrys, 142
Kennan, George F., 9, 202, 218
Kennedy, John (Major-General), 268
Kennedy, John F., 351
Kennedy, Joseph P., 29, 31, 51, 52, 54–56, 66, 84, 85, 88, 126, 186, 213, 239, 240, 283, 354
Czech securities sold by, 136–37
Donovan and, 77–78, 85–86, 97, 99, 101
Hull and, 78–79
Lend-Lease and, 118, 137
resignation of, 101, 112
Welles and, 31, 77, 78
Kershaw, Ian, 220
Keynes, John Maynard, 137, 167
Kilmer, Joyce, 70
Kimball, Warren F., 180, 335, 355
King, Ernest J., 322
King, Mackenzie, 193, 257
King George V, HMS, 141, 234, 314–15
Kirk, Alan G., 83, 86, 91
Kirk, Alexander, 31, 39, 40
Kitchener, Herbert, 244
Knox, Frank, 73, 75, 77–79, 96, 99, 101, 165, 179, 230, 252, 322, 350
Donovan and, 75, 76, 78–80, 90–93, 95, 98–99
FDR and, 93–95
Pearl Harbor and, 340
Kremlin, 294
Kristallnacht, 18, 31
Krock, Arthur, 110, 122
Lady Hamilton, 317
LaGuardia, Fiorello, 148, 190, 323
Lamont, Thomas W., 158, 167, 192, 194, 320, 331–32
Landon, Alf, 161, 190
Lasker, Albert, 341
Laski, Harold, 137, 175–76, 212
Latin America, 2, 23, 24
Laycock, Bob, 265
Leach, John, 328
League of Nations, 18
Lebrun, Albert, 48
Lee, Raymond E., 84, 87, 127, 132, 239–40, 242, 262–64, 269, 271
Lee, Robert E., 69
Leemans, Alphonse “Tuffy,” 340
LeHand, Missy, 112, 144, 205, 230
Lend-Lease, 8, 104–5, 118, 122, 126, 129, 137, 141, 146, 149, 153–54, 159, 180, 189–90, 199, 205–6, 208, 213–14, 217, 233, 235–37, 248, 252, 254, 256, 257, 271, 273, 338, 352, 352
American industry expanded by, 236–37
Churchill and, 214, 240, 267–68, 352
debates on, 154, 179–80, 214
expansion of, 262–63
food included in, 237–38, 263
passing of, 189, 192–93, 213–14
Soviet Union and, 302
speed of aircraft employment in, 267–68
Willkie and, 159–61, 163–64, 178, 180, 189–94, 199
Lewis, John L., 230
Libya, 140, 220
Life, 149
Lindbergh, Charles, 65, 90, 179, 190, 230
Lindemann, Frederick, see Cherwell, Frederick Lindemann, Lord
Lippmann, Walter, 34, 99
Lisbon, Portugal, 169–70
Lloyd George, David, 52
London, England, 138
air attacks on, 138, 143, 171, 180, 182, 219–20, 225–26, 232, 239, 249, 259
air raid shelters in, 176–77
Donovan in, 63, 76–102, 165, 205, 333, 353, 355
Dorchester Hotel, 171
Harriman in, 199, 206–11, 213–30, 232–34, 237–41, 248–50
Hopkins in (January–February 1941), 112–19, 132, 141–42, 150–52, 161, 199, 205
Hopkins in (July 1941), 248, 255–78
Willkie in, 160–80, 353
Long, Breckinridge, 213
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 164, 165, 174, 189, 196, 277, 330
Lothian, Philip Kerr, Lord, 28, 79–80, 84, 91, 100, 101, 112
Lovett, Robert A., 204
Luce, Clare Booth, 80
Luce, Henry, 149
Lyttelton, Oliver, 129, 131
McKinley, David “Mac,” 287–91, 313–15
McNarney, Joseph T., 286, 299, 300, 312
Maisky, Ivan, 265, 281, 283, 285, 312
Malta, 229
Manchester, England, 182–83
Marshall, George C., 9, 98, 146, 179, 208, 248, 252, 257, 286, 325, 346–47
at Atlantic Conference, 322
Pearl Harbor and, 340, 343
Martin, John, 132, 327–29, 342
Martin, Kingsley, 186
Massey, Vincent, 48, 141, 178
Matisse, Henri, 203
Meiklejohn, Bob, 202, 217, 225, 242, 244, 246, 247, 250, 268, 350
Menzies, Robert, 184–85, 224, 226, 227
Menzies, Stewart, 83–84
Middle East, 221, 263–64, 269–70
Harriman in, 241–48, 251
Moffat, Jay Pierrepont, 33–35, 37, 45, 46, 48, 51
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 296, 298, 302, 309
Monnet, Jean, 116
Moore, R. Walton, 30
Morgenthau, Henry, 47, 95, 144, 179, 206, 230, 231, 280, 310
Morrison, Herbert, 87
Moscow, Russia:
air raids in, 299–301, 309–10
Hopkins’s mission for FDR in, 280–318, 353
Hopkins’s mission for Truman in, 347
Kremlin, 294
Mothers of the USA, 96
Mountbatten, Louis “Dickie,” 243
Mowrer, Edgar, 77–79, 91, 96, 99, 102
Munich Agreement, 18, 19, 29, 49, 51
Murdoch, Keith, 342
Murrow, Edward R., 128, 344–45
Mussolini, Benito, 18, 19, 29, 33–37, 44, 64, 153, 343
death of, 346
Donovan and, 73
Harriman and, 201
Hitler and, 28, 37, 58, 61, 142
Welles’s meeting with, 35–37, 50, 57–60, 62
My Early Life (Churchill), 147
Nast, Condé, 167
National Recovery Administration (NRA), 204
Neal, Steve, 159
Negrín, Juan, 285
Nelson, HMS, 133
Nesbitt, Henrietta, 209–10
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 190
Netherlands, 64
neutrality, 5, 7, 17–20, 82, 208, 249
Neutrality Acts, 17, 18, 82, 208, 221, 254, 338
New Deal, 107, 114, 119, 157, 204, 211
New Yorker, 106
New York Herald Tribune, 5–6, 158, 160, 328
New York Times, 4, 30, 42, 58, 74, 91, 110, 127, 147, 262, 277, 341
Nicolson, Harold, 184, 186
Nomura, Kichisaburo, 229, 251, 256, 326
Norman, Montagu, 167
Norway, 63
Nye, Gerald P., 191
Office of Production Management (OPM), 205, 207, 208, 238
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 348–49
O’Neill, Richard, 69
One World (Willkie), 349
Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of Soviet Union), 8, 142, 252–56, 279–81, 295–97, 299–308, 309–10, 319–20, 332, 333, 352, 353
Oumansky, Constantine, 254–55, 258, 280, 311
Pacific Ocean, 251, 252, 271–72
Pan American Clippers, 80–82, 169, 188
Pangborn, Clyde, 168
PBY aircraft, 287–88
Peabody, Endicott, 22, 56
Pearl Harbor attack, 8, 12, 174, 339–45, 352
Pearson, Drew, 40
Peirse, Richard, 272
Perkins, Frances, 165–66, 204, 255
Pétain, Philippe, 64
Philadelphia Inquirer, 328
Philippines, 271
Phillips, William, 31, 35, 37, 212
Phony War, 8, 20, 30, 45, 109
Pimpernel Smith, 317
Placentia Bay, 316, 320–21, 321–22, 333
Poincaré, Raymond, 140
Poland, 1–2, 4, 5, 19, 36, 38–39, 54, 55, 57, 63
Portal, Charles, 140, 283–84
Portugal, 169–70
Potomac, USS, 92, 94, 95, 141, 321, 331, 332
Pound, Dudley, 315, 329
Priestley, J. B., 186
Prince, Samuel Henry, 332–33
Prince of Wales, HMS, 315–20, 322, 323, 325, 327–30, 332, 335, 339
Paris-Soir, 50
Public Works Administration (PWA), 107
Purvis, Arthur, 97
Rayburn, Sam, 120, 325, 345
Red Sea, 221
Reid, Helen Rogers, 167, 194
Repulse, HMS, 234, 339
Rex, SS, 33–34
Reynolds, David, 100, 212, 252, 272, 343, 353
Reynolds, Quentin, 272–74, 309
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 39–42, 44
Rich, Robert F., 121
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 190
Rommel, Erwin, 220, 229, 241, 245
Ronalds, Thora, 33
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 11, 13, 22, 93, 110, 118, 143, 144, 151, 209, 344, 346
tours and reporting by, 13–14
Roosevelt, Elliott, 259, 322, 327
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 63, 97, 129, 168, 228–29, 352
Atlantic Charter and, 326–27
at Atlantic Conference, 257, 268–71, 282, 313, 321–28, 331–32
Battle of the Atlantic and, 220–21
in Big Three, 8, 304, 347
birthday celebration of, 144–45
career of, 10
character of, 10
in Churchill bath story, 354
Churchill’s communications with, 20, 77–78, 104, 112, 126–27, 136, 141–42, 150, 164, 165, 167, 174, 189, 196, 218, 268, 315–16
Churchill’s first meeting of, 257
constraints placed on, 7
criticisms of, 9–10
Cuff Links Gang and, 144–45
death of, 346, 347
declaration of war against Japan, 344–46
destroyers-bases agreement of, 99–100, 103, 218
diplomacy of, 14, 353–54
Donovan and, 67, 68, 73–75, 92–93, 98–102
Donovan appointed Coordinator of Information by, 257–58
Donovan’s fact-finding mission and, 76–79, 353
elected for third term, 46–47, 62, 81, 104, 137, 157, 165, 352
elected president, 72, 73, 107, 203–4
envoys of, 8–9, 13–15, 101, 205, 207, 209, 216, 238, 257, 339, 352–56; see also Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill”; Harriman, Averell; Hopkins, Harry; Welles, Sumner; Willkie, Wendell
Four Freedoms speech of, 120–22, 129
and German invasion of Soviet Union, 253, 254, 256, 280
Germany attacked in speech, 58
Good Neighbor policy of, 24
governing method of, 11–13
Harriman’s contribution to campaign of, 210–11
Harriman’s mission and, 207–11, 238–41, 248–50
Hopkins and, 106–11, 151, 164, 235, 353
and Hopkins’s London mission of January–February 1941, 112–19, 132, 141–42, 150–52
and Hopkins’s London mission of July 1941, 255–57, 268, 278
and Hopkins’s Moscow mission, 280–83, 292, 293, 296–97, 299, 302, 304–6, 308, 310–11, 319, 333–36, 353
House and, 14
Hull and, 25
ill health of, 230
importance of, 10
Kennedy’s securities sale and, 136–37
King and Queen of England entertained by, 12–13
Knox and, 93–95
Lend-Lease program of, see Lend-Lease
New Deal of, 107, 114, 119, 157, 204, 211
and outbreak of World War II, 1–2, 4, 5
Pearl Harbor and, 339–40, 343–45
polio of, 1, 10, 13, 145
polio fundraiser of, 144–45
rearmament and aid policy of, 64–66, 75
selective service and, 65, 89, 97–98, 104, 325
Soviet aid and, 280, 293, 297, 299, 301–2, 325
Soviet military delegation and, 301–2
Stalin and, 282, 283, 305–6, 338
State Department and, 9, 11–12
on tours of naval defenses, 92–95, 159
on tours while governor, 13
and U.S. involvement in war, 7–8, 15, 18–20, 27–33, 230–31, 251–52, 324–25, 337–38, 352–53
Welles and, 22, 24, 25
Welles scandal and, 231
Welles’s European mission and, 26–33, 59–62
Willkie and, 5, 154, 162–66, 191–94, 196, 349, 353
Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr., 205, 322, 324, 330
Roosevelt, Hall, 204
Roosevelt, Haven, 94
Roosevelt, James, 243, 258, 341, 346
Roosevelt, Sara, 11, 13, 143
Roosevelt, Theodore, 2, 22, 73, 194
Donovan and, 69, 71
E. H. Harriman and, 200
Rosenman, Samuel, 18, 121, 144, 163
“Rouge Bouquet” (Kilmer), 70
Rumsey, Charles Cary, 204
Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 204
Russia, see Soviet Union
Salazar, António de Oliveira, 122, 170
Sargent, John Singer, 23
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 11, 28, 61, 228, 233
Donovan and, 66–67
Scotland, 131–36, 236, 256, 259
Seal, Eric, 219–20
selective service, 65, 84, 96–98, 103–4, 325
Donovan and, 75–76, 98
FDR and, 65, 89, 97–98, 104, 325
Selective Training and Service Act, 97–98
Sequoia, USS, 79
Seymour, Horatia, 272–73
Sheppard, Morris, 121
Sherwood, Robert, 9–10, 46, 110, 121, 144, 163, 165, 235, 253–55, 258, 277, 297–98, 325, 326
Sinclair, Archibald, 84, 89
Slovakia, 36
Smith, Al, 203
Smith, Howard K., 38
Social Security Board, 211
Southampton, HMS, 131
Soviet Union, 355
British aid to, 284, 304, 335, 338
Finland attacked by, 20, 52, 292, 296
Germany’s invasion of, 8, 142, 252–56, 279–81, 295–97, 299–308, 309–10, 319–20, 332, 333, 352, 353
Germany’s nonaggression pact with, 19, 297
Harriman and, 201
Hopkins’s mission to, for FDR, 280–318, 323–24, 333–36
Hopkins’s mission to, for Truman, 347
Japan and, 302
Japan’s neutrality pact with, 220, 302
lack of information about, 282–83, 299, 334
Moscow, see Moscow, Russia
Roosevelt’s meeting with delegation from, 301–2
triangular relationship between U.S., Britain and, 336, 352
U.S. aid to, 254–55, 280, 281, 297–99, 301–2, 304–5, 308, 310–11, 325, 335, 338
Spain, 18
Speer, Albert, 41
Spencer, Samuel R., Jr., 65, 98
Stalin, Joseph, 8, 19, 201, 254, 265, 293, 295, 318, 347, 349–50, 355
in Big Three, 8, 304, 347
Bourke-White and, 306–7
Churchill and, 284–85, 353
Hitler and, 254, 283, 297, 307, 320
Hopkins as viewed by, 309
Hopkins’s meeting with, 282–84, 294–99, 302–11, 319–20, 324, 332–36, 338, 353
physical appearance of, 295, 306
Roosevelt and, 282, 283, 305–6, 338
Stark, Harold R. “Betty,” 91, 179, 208, 248, 252, 322
State Department, 9, 23, 25, 29–31, 61, 101, 115, 116–18, 206, 207, 217, 240, 274, 305, 310, 354
FDR and, 9, 11–12
Latin American division of, 23
Welles’s joining of, 22
Steinhardt, Laurence A., 283, 291–93, 294, 298, 302, 303, 308–12, 334, 354
Stephenson, William, 83, 258
Stettinius, Edward, 236
Stimson, Henry L., 30, 75, 76, 91, 97–99, 104, 110, 149, 162, 165, 179, 194, 208, 230, 252, 253, 310–11, 334, 340
Suckley, Daisy, 3, 321
Sunday Times (London), 175
Swansea, Wales, 222–23
Swing, Raymond Gram, 259, 260, 263, 265–66
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 117, 204
Sydney Morning Herald, 225–26
Syria, 241, 264
Taft, Robert A., 157, 158, 161, 179
Taft, William Howard, 200
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 2
Target for Tonight, 275
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 157
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 219–20
Thompson, Charles “Tommy,” 132, 223, 261, 284, 342
Thompson, Dorothy, 84, 272
Thorne, Landon K., 162, 168
Time, 21, 26, 28, 38, 59, 194, 211, 332
Times (London), 170, 195, 239
Tinkham, George H., 121
Tobin, Daniel, 47
Tojo, Hideki, 339
Tovey, John, 315
Trades Union Congress (TUC), 176
Tree, Nancy, 131
Tree, Ronald, 83, 128, 131, 169–70
Trippe, Juan, 118
Trotsky, Leon, 201
Truman, Harry S., 9, 347–48, 349
Tugwell, Rexford G., 10
Tully, Grace, 114, 144, 344
Twain, Mark, 169
Union Pacific Railroad, 6, 200, 203
Vandenberg, Arthur H., 157, 158
Van Doren, Irita, 6, 160–61, 186, 190, 195, 342
Vansittart, Robert, 32, 55, 56, 84–85, 98
Willkie and, 187
Victor Emmanuel III, King, 35
Villa, Pancho, 68
Wadsworth, James W., 75
Wallace, Henry A., 111, 341
Wall Street Journal, 334, 335
Ward, Freda Dudley, 129
War Resource Board, 3
Washington Post, 26, 46, 84, 194, 279, 331
Wavell, Archibald, 140, 242, 245
Weinberg, Sidney J., 264–65
Welles, Benjamin, 21
Welles, Emily, 21
Welles, Esther Slater, 22, 23
Welles, Frances Swan, 21, 22
Welles, Mathilde Townsend, 23, 33, 348
Welles, Orson, 266
Welles, Sumner, 8, 63–65, 72, 84, 216, 255, 282, 333, 348, 352, 353, 356
agent and, 37
at Atlantic Conference, 322, 323, 327, 329, 331
background and childhood of, 21–22
birth of, 21
in Britain, 26–33, 50–56, 165
Chamberlain and, 32, 51, 52, 54–56
character of, 2, 21, 23, 26, 56
Churchill and, 53–54
Daladier and, 48–49
death of, 348
divorce and remarriage of, 23–24
European mission of, 26–33, 59–62, 97, 101
FDR and, 22, 24, 25
in France, 26–33, 44–50, 56–57, 64
in Germany, 26–33, 37–44, 50
Hitler and, 39–42, 44, 62
Hull and, 24–25, 61
in Italy, 26–37, 57–59, 61
Kennedy and, 31, 77, 78
Latin American policies and, 23, 24
Mussolini and, 35–37, 50, 57–60, 62
and outbreak of World War II, 2
Pearl Harbor and, 340, 344, 345
physical appearance of, 21, 26
report on European mission, 59–60, 114
scandal involving, 21, 59, 111–12, 231, 348
State Department joined by, 22
as under secretary, 24, 25
West, Rebecca, 186, 195
Wharton, Edith, 21
Wheeler, Burton K., 97, 154, 263
Whitehead, T. North, 115
Whitman, Walt, 30
Whitney, Vanderbilt “Sonny,” 203
Wilhelmina, Queen, 146
Williams, S. Clay, 206
Willkie, Edith, 5, 156, 159, 160, 188
Willkie, Henrietta, 155
Willkie, Herman, 155
Willkie, Philip, 188
Willkie, Wendell, 5–8, 104, 114, 154–61, 193–94, 210, 212–13, 230–32, 255, 330, 341–42, 348–50, 352, 354, 355, 356
air raid shelters visited by, 176–77
in army, 156
background of, 154–55
Beaverbrook and, 175
in Birmingham, 182, 185
birth of, 154
in Bolama, 188
in Britain, 160–99, 191, 193–96, 353
Willkie, Wendell (cont.)
British coastal defenses inspected by, 178
in Canada, 193
character of, 154, 158
Churchill and, 166–67, 173–75, 181, 184, 186–88, 195, 196, 349
at Commonwealth & Southern, 5, 156–57
in Coventry, 181–82, 185
death of, 350
early life of, 155–56
Eden and, 172–73
FDR and, 5, 154, 162–66, 191–94, 196, 349
German ancestry of, 187
Harriman’s contribution to campaign of, 211
Hull and, 162
in Ireland, 183–85, 194
isolationists and, 160, 161, 189
and King and Queen of England, 185–86
Lend-Lease and, 159–61, 163–64, 178, 180, 189–94, 199
letters of introduction of, 167
in London, 160–80
in Manchester, 182–83
Pearl Harbor and, 341–42
physical appearance of, 154, 158
presidential campaign of, 5, 157–59
at Trades Union Congress meeting, 176
Van Doren and, 6, 160–61, 186, 190, 342
Wilson, Charles, 133, 135
Wilson, Edith, 346
Wilson, Theodore, 252, 269
Wilson, Woodrow, 19, 156, 168, 194, 346
Winant, John G. “Gil,” 81, 196, 211–13, 222–25, 238–41, 249, 258, 260, 267, 272, 278, 281, 284, 285, 312, 315, 330–31, 350–51, 354
appointed ambassador to Britain, 148–49, 206, 211–13
background of, 211
character of, 212
Harriman and, 238–40, 250, 257, 271
Hopkins’s Moscow mission and, 281
Pearl Harbor and, 342, 343
physical appearance of, 212
Wood, Robert E., 2–3, 95, 154, 254
Woolton, Frederick Marquis, Lord, 82, 237–38
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 107, 119
World War I, 17, 19, 30, 53, 68
Donovan in, 66, 68–71, 74–76
World War II:
American involvement and entry into, 7–8, 15, 18–20, 27–33, 221, 229–31, 249, 251–52, 256, 267, 305–6, 324–25, 337–38, 352–53
American isolationism and, see isolationism
American neutrality and, 5, 7, 17–20, 82, 208, 221, 249, 254, 338
Britain in, see Britain
Blitzkrieg in, 64, 138, 143, 171, 180, 182, 225–26, 237
climacterics in, 8–9, 102, 214, 253
fifth-column activities and, 76, 77, 79, 96
France in, see France
Germany in, see Germany
Japan in, see Japan
outbreak of, 1–5, 7, 15, 17–18
peace negotiations and, 28–30, 41, 43–44, 52, 54–55, 58, 60, 61
as Phony War, 8, 20, 30, 45, 109
selective service and, see selective service
Soviet Union in, see Soviet Union
U.S. rearmament and aid to allies in, 64–66, 75
Wren, Christopher, 173, 174
Yakovlev, Nikolai, 299, 301, 304, 335, 355
Yalta Conference, 347
Yankee Clipper, 147–48, 168, 170
Yeaton, Ivan, 283, 292, 299, 312, 334
Young Melbourne, The (Cecil), 5–6
Yugoslavia, 216, 220
Zhukov, Georgii, 296