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by James Macgregor Burns


  Idaho, 269

  Illinois River, 473

  Immigration laws, 396

  Imphal Plain, 541

  Income, rise in, 355, 460

  Income tax. See Taxation

  India: Chiang Kai-shek’s message to F.D.R. re, 240-242; and China, 239-241, 242, 375; Eisenhower sees Euro­pean offensive as necessary to save, 229; Gandhi’s appeal to F.D.R., 239; Germany’s plan to push through to, 308; and Great Britain, 79, 219-222, 231, 238-239, 240-242, 375, 379-381, 422, 549; Hitler’s offer of, to Russia, 17, 68; and Japan, 20, 201, 202, 209, 219, 220, 221, 222, 225, 229, 231, 239, 240, 242, 308, 541; not included in Combined Chiefs of Staff, 186; reac­tion in, to F.D.R.’s death, 611; F.D.R. and Stalin discuss, 407; as signatory of Declaration of Allied Unity, 184, 185; and the U.S., 184, 219-222, 229, 231, 239-240, 240-242, 379-381, 422, 541, 549, 593, 608, 609

  India League of America, 381

  Indian Ocean, 12, 77, 94, 176

  Indochina: and China, 108, 135, 156, 157, 158, 160, 376, 592; and de Gaulle, 591, 592, 593; and France, 20, 78, 106, 109, 379, 591, 592; and Great Britain, 128, 592, 593; independence of, 591-592; and Japan, 13, 20, 78, 108, 109, 110, 127, 128, 135, 136, 138, 144, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161, 379, 381; nationalist feeling against the West intensified in, 381; and F.D.R., 127, 135, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161, 379, 407, 591-592, 593; F.D.R. and Stalin discuss, 407, 591, 592; Stilwell’s proposed offensive to open, 376; and the U.S., 109, 110, 127, 136, 144, 156, 157, 160, 376

  Indonesia, 381, 593

  “Industrial-military complex,” 189

  Inflation, 256, 259, 260, 261, 282, 340

  Inland Sea, 159, 486, 540

  Inönü, Ismet, 414

  Intellectuals, and world peace, 515-516

  Intelligence, 73, 294, 440, 519; Japanesecode broken, 226

  Interior, Department of, 143

  Interventionism, 41, 42, 43, 48, 99, 111, 112, 142, 149, 280

  Invasion: of Great Britain, threatened, 10, 14, 15, 19, 33, 45, 64, 73, 79; of the U.S., feared, 45

  Iowa, U.S.S., 402-403, 416

  Iquitos, Peru, 57

  Iran, 153, 308, 422

  Isle of Wight, 475

  Ismay, Sir Hastings L., 11, 73, 235, 368, 407

  Isolationism, 5, 6, 11, 37, 41-42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 49, 56, 84, 98, 111, 120, 131. 132, 142, 148, 151, 159, 165, 168, 177, 201, 210, 211, 213, 274, 275, 280, 359, 400, 422, 426, 499, 500, 516, 526, 528. 532, 543, 583

  Istrian Peninsula, 479, 519

  Italian-Americans, treatment of, in World War II, 268. See also Aliens

  Italy: campaign in, 369, 370, 393-395, 407, 438-439, 440, 478, 479, 484, 489, 518, 519, 545, 546, 560; Churchill and F.D.R. dispute over. 537-538; Churchill regrets that Allied forces in, denied chance to reach Vienna before Russians, 480; Communism in, 391-392, 586; German aid to, 80, 391, 394; German occupation of, 393; German resistance in Africa prevents Allied landing in, 330; German sup­plies for Africa deployed through, 326; Germans ready to take over, 392; government crisis in, 383, 537-538; Grand Council, 383; Great Britain disappointed that no attack on, planned at Casablanca Confer­ence, 319; Great Britain in favor of strong offensive against, 315, 318, 369, 393; Great Britain interested in political arrangements for, 401; Hit­ler orders attack on, 394; invades Greece, 14-15; invades southern France, 295; invasion of Sicily, 381, 383; and Libya, 64; and North Africa, 80; plans to eliminate, 86, 370; projected power on the African Mediterranean coast, 16; puts out peace feelers to Spain and Portugal, 393; Red Army operations on East­ern Front help Allied operations in, 483; refugees from, 442; F.D.R. fears anarchy in, 391; F.D.R. reluc­tant to commit large armies in, 368-369; F.D.R.’s assessment of aims, 6; secret negotiations on German sur­render, 585-586; as signatory of the Tripartite Pact, 16, 20-21, 69; Stalin advises against attacking Germany through, 408; Stalin resents being left out of negotiations with, 399; as strategic imponderable, 314; sur­renders, 394; and unconditional sur­render, 323, 384, 390, 391; U.S. declares war on, 175. See also Badoglio. Pietro; Mussolini, Benito; Rome; Tripartite Pact

  Iwo Jima, 588

  Jackson, Graham, 601

  Jackson, Mississippi, Daily News. 462

  Jackson, Robert, 39, 91, 117, 122, 594

  James, William, 604

  Janeway, Eliot, 245

  Japan: accession of, 93; appeals to Moslem elements in Southeast Asia, 218; assets in U.S. frozen, 109; atomic bombing of, 591, 596; bomb­ing of, 86, 224, 344-345, 346, 445, 486, 558, 588, 595-596, 599; and Burma, 186, 201, 202. 203, 205, 218, 240, 315, 381, 383, 541; and China, 19, 20, 78, 79, 81-83, 106, 107, 110, 128, 135, 136, 137-138, 144, 145, 146, 147, 150, 155, 156, 157-158, 160, 203, 375, 404, 415, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 589; Churchill’s policy toward, 127, 143, 150; Congress votes for war against, 171; downfall of, 561; events leading to war, 18-22, 78-83, 134-139, 144-147, 149-151, 154-161; ex­pansionist policy, 13, 19-20, 78-79, 128, 135; fall of Cabinet, 596; fanati­cism of troops, 590; fear of Commu­nism spreading into, 558-559; feigns posture of indifference to F.D.R.’s re-election, 18; and Great Britain, 80, 137, 171-172, 325, 400; Great Britain declares war on, 171-172; Hitler hopes for German-Japanese link-up, 308; Hitler’s strategy for, 69; Ickes urges a full embargo against, 23, 109; impatience to seize Allied possessions in the Far East, 19-20; and India, 20, 201, 202, 209, 219, 220, 221, 222, 225, 229, 231, 239, 240, 242, 308, 541; and Indochina, 13, 20, 78, 108, 109, 110, 127, 128, 135, 136, 138, 144, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161, 379, 381; iron and steel embargo, 20; kamikazes, 558, 588, 590; new leaders, 154; Navy, 175-176, 221, 444, 485, 540; negotiates for truce with U.S., 156-157; the New Order, 18, 20; oil embargo, 21, 107, 109, 110; peace group versus military, 558-559; and the Philip­pines, 78, 108, 158, 160, 165, 172, 175, 186, 201, 206-209, 218, 267, 379, 540; power overestimated, 57; projected American attack on, 540, 544; prop­aganda, 387; reaction to the German invasion of Russia, 97; reaction to F.D.R.’s death, 601; relations with its Axis partners, 79-80; rivalries between diplomats and military, 79, 106; F.D.R.’s assessment of aims, 6; F.D.R. makes wrong assessment of, 153; and Russia, 19, 81, 83, 94-95, 97, 108, 135, 137, 184, 188, 189, 207, 313, 314, 400, 401, 414, 545, 546, 565, 572, 574, 575, 576, 590; as signatory of the Anti-Comintern Pact, 19; as signatory of the Tripartite Pact, 16, 20-21, 69, 78, 144; sinks three Amer­ican cruisers and one Australian, 255, 284; and the Solomons, 209, 225, 255, 283, 284, 285, 291, 300, 314, 382, 444; Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, 81, 83, 94-95; ten-point proposal to, 157; and unconditional surrender, 323; U.S. declares war on, 165-167; U.S. warning to, 134; war against the whites in Asia, 217-226; war aims, 217. See also Konoye, Fumimaro; Pa­cific theater; Pearl Harbor: attack on

  Japan Times-Advertiser, 351

  Japanese-Americans: discrimination against, vii, 214-215, 217, 268, 463; internment of, 213-217, 266-268, 275, 421, 461, 463-464, 466; riots by, in concentration camps, 421, 466

  Java, 202, 209, 218, 223, 592

  Jean Bart (French battleship), 294

  Jefferson, Thomas, 216, 273, 362, 386, 596; Memorial, 356-357

  Jerusalem, 397, 406

  Jews: attacked by Hitler in speech, December 1940, 17; anti-Semitism in the U.S., 280, 421; “final solution,” 395-397; hatred of, in German prop­aganda, 386; Hitler’s hatred of, 70, 310, 387; Ibn Saud approached re admitting, into Palestine, 578-579; report on U.S. government’s “ac­quiescence” in murder of, 441; F.D.R. and, 43, 395-398, 545, 577-579; Stalin discusses national home for, 577-578; War Refugee Board created to assist, 441-442

  Jidda, 578

  Jinnah, Mohammed Ali, 219

  Jodl, Alfred, 391

  Johnson, Edwin C, 437

  Johnson, Hiram, 47, 132, 164, 165, 361, 426

  Johnson, Hugh, 211

  Johnson, Louis, 220-221, 222

  Johnson, Lyndon, 611

  Johnson, Nelson, 82, 83

  Johnson Act, 24, 26

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, American, 99, 128, 176, 182, 230, 242, 283, 284, 288, 316, 317, 345, 368, 389, 392, 393, 402, 403, 414, 415, 416, 440, 445,
452, 453, 477, 485, 489, 491, 494-495, 496, 519, 546, 548, 565; formation of, 183; support­ing agencies of, 452. See also Arnold, Henry; Combined Chiefs of Staff; King, Ernest J.; Leahy, William D.; Marshall, George C.

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, British, 85, 128, 183, 231, 311, 317, 318, 392, 415, 416, 444, 445, 477, 495. See also Brooke, Alan; Combined Chiefs of Staff; Dill, Sir John; Ismay, Sir Hastings L.; Mountbatten, Lord Louis; Portal, Sir Charles; Pound, Sir Dudley

  Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment, 345

  Jones, Jesse, 25, 39, 122, 341, 342, 348, 454-455, 560, 561, 603

  Josephson, Matthew, 272

  Juliana, Princess of Holland, 253

  Juneau, 136

  Juno Beach, 474

  Justice, Department of, 117, 201, 215

  Kaiser, Henry J., 245, 269, 272, 504, 521

  Kaiser shipyards, Portland, 269

  Kalinin, 188

  Kamikazes, 558, 588, 590

  Kapitza, Peter, 458

  Karl, Prince of Sweden, 125

  Kasserine Pass, 326, 547

  Katyn Forest massacre, 372

  Kaya, Okinori, 154

  Kearny, U.S.S., 147

  Kelly, Colin P., 210

  Kelly, Edward J., 506

  Kelly Field, 270

  Kennan, George, 352, 353

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 46, 211, 489

  Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 489

  Kent, Frank, 119

  Kerr, Clark, 565, 572, 583

  Kesselring, Albert, 394, 439, 479

  Key West, 143

  Keynes, John Maynard, 118, 514

  Kharkov, 232, 326

  Khartoum, 233, 314, 368

  Kido, Koichi, 138

  Kiev, 143, 408

  King, Ernest J., 125, 126, 141, 183, 201, 223, 228, 232, 233, 236, 242, 244, 287, 299, 316, 317, 318, 402, 405, 415, 486, 490, 493, 494, 519

  King George V, H.M.S., 12, 74

  Kinkaid, Thomas C, 540

  Kipling, Rudyard, quoted by F.D.R., 177

  Kirchwey, Freda, 295

  Kirk, Alexander C, 403

  Kiska, 226, 383

  Knox, Frank, 38-39, 45, 51, 84, 86, 89, 90, 91, 103, 104, 131, 133, 141, 150, 157, 161, 162, 163, 182, 222, 223, 352, 364, 464, 493, 494, 513, 607

  Knudsen, William S„ 51, 52, 55-56, 88, 118, 194

  Koiso, Kuniaki, 558

  Konoye, Fumimaro, 19, 20, 79, 81, 108, 110, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 144, 146, 147, 559

  Korneichuk, Alexander, 399

  Korsun salient, 446

  Kota Bahru, 175

  Krock, Arthur, 201

  Ku Klux Klan, 265

  Kunming, 375, 376

  Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist government). See Chiang Kai-shek; China

  Kure, 159

  Kurile Islands, 159, 202, 574

  Kurita, Takeo, 540

  Kurusu, Saburo, 155-158, 162

  Kwajalein atoll, 444, 446, 485

  Kyushu, 576, 590

  Labor, 116, 117, 118, 151, 177, 191-192, 194-196, 245, 259-260, 262, 263-265, 334-338, 460, 465, 522, 525. See also Manpower; Strikes; Unions

  Labor, Department of, 196, 465

  Labor Committee (House), 40

  Labor-management conference, 196

  Labor party, American, 277, 281

  Labor Production Division. See War

  Production Board

  La Follette, Robert M., 47, 426

  La Follette, Robert M., Jr., 47

  La Guardia, Fiorello, 41, 116, 124, 275, 491-492, 501, 525

  Lahey, Frank, 449

  Lamon Bay, 203

  Lampell, Millard, 604

  Land, Emory S., 191, 245, 452, 565

  Landon, Alfred M., 38, 356, 528

  Lane, Arthur Bliss, 535

  Langley, U.S.S., 223

  Lash, Joseph, 4, 177, 185

  Laski, Harold, 551, 565

  Latin America, 56, 100, 163-164, 253, 307, 378, 385, 514. See also Central America; South America

  Latta, Maurice, 451

  Lattimore, Owen, 83

  Latvia, 15, 413

  Laval, Pierre, 285, 287, 293

  Lawrence, Ernest O., 251

  League of Nations, 47, 129, 130, 131, 358, 361, 427, 428, 515, 516, 526, 567, 568

  Leahy, William D., 64-65, 286, 287, 302, 402, 406, 447, 452, 469, 488, 489, 490, 493, 494, 496, 507, 521, 530, 554, 562, 565, 568, 572, 573, 594

  LeHand, Missy, 8, 50, 56, 59, 60, 122, 390, 489

  Lehman, Herbert, 268, 275, 277, 502, 513

  Leiserson, William M., 338

  Lemnos, occupied by the British, 15

  Lend-Lease, 25-29, 41, 43-49, 50, 57, 58, 65, 73, 83, 84, 88, 89, 118, 126, 148, 152, 247-248, 300, 406, 429, 520, 604

  Lenin, 551, 571

  Leningrad, 143, 228, 446

  Lerner, Max, 358, 421

  Lewis, John L., 5, 52, 55, 68; 117, 177. 194, 195, 196, 260, 263, 335, 336, 337, 341, 349, 533, 560. 594

  Lexington, U.S.S., 222, 225

  Leyte, 527, 539, 540, 558

  Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 541

  Liaotung Peninsula, 574

  Liberia, 266, 324

  Liberty (magazine), 103

  Liberty ships, 245, 469

  Libya, 64, 72, 75, 173, 180, 229, 285, 310, 311

  Life (magazine), 307, 533

  Lilienthal, David, 119, 300, 301-302, 305, 431, 432, 562

  Lincoln, Abraham, 164, 194, 216, 316, 494, 604, 605, 606, 608; quoted by F.D.R., 107, 492. 507

  Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 66

  Lindbergh, Charles A., 46, 48, 211

  Lingayen Gulf, 203

  Linlithgow, Marquis of, 380

  Lippmann, Walter, 112, 119, 216, 295, 516

  Liscombe Bay, U.S.S., 444

  Literature, during the war, 272, 273

  Lithuania, 15, 413, 567

  Little Steel wage formula, 341

  Litvinov, Maxim, 93, 183-184, 185, 229, 232, 373, 399

  Livadia Palace, 564, 566, 576

  Ljubljana Gap, 479

  Lloyd George, David, 76, 77, 187, 428, 552

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, 361, 426

  London, bombing of, 9, 10, 29, 78, 558 London Poles. See Poland: government-in-exile

  “Lonesome Train, The” (Lampell), 604

  Long, Breckenridge, 398, 441

  Long, Huey, 68, 426, 500, 603, 604

  Loomis, Alfred, 345

  Los Alamos, 456, 558

  Los Angeles, 270; “zoot-suit” riots, 388

  Lost Horizon (Hilton), 224

  Lothian, Lord, 24, 74

  Louisville Courier Journal, 264

  Lovett, Robert, 39

  Low Countries. 305, 519. See also Belgium; Netherlands

  Lubell, Samuel, 451

  Lubin, Isador, 193, 460

  Lublin Poles. See Polish Committee of National Liberation

  Lucas, Scott, 532

  Luce, Clare Booth, 307-308, 606

  Luce, Henry, 307, 357, 512, 533, 603

  Luftwaffe, 9, 10, 282, 446

  Luxembourg, 185, 365

  Luzon, 202-205, 207, 445

  Lwow, 536, 570

  MacArthur, Douglas A., 213, 272; advocates bringing Russia into war against Japan, 188-189, 207; advo­cates Pacific First strategy, 188-189, 242, 491; appointment of, to F.D.R.’s credit, 350; attempts of, to defend the Philippines, 206-209; awarded Congressional Medal of Honor, 209; charges of neglect of forces of, 206, 211, 491, 527; Churchill offers Brit­ish fleet for, 519; commander of U.S. forces in the Philippines, 109, 150; counteroffensive of, 283, 284, 382, 444, 485, 487, 527, 540; disagreement with Nimitz over Pacific strategy, 485, 488-489, 490; friend of Quezon, 206; leaves the Philippines, 209; let­ters of, agreeing with New Deal criticism, published, 501; love of the Philippines, 206; meeting with F.D.R., 488-489, 490; military career of, 205; offers to go to Washington to appeal for aid, 485; promises to return to the Philippines, 209, 485; and proposal for neutralization of the Philippines, 208; relations with F.D.R., 205, 603; reports on effec­tiveness of Japanese
air attack, 202; Republican leaders rumored to be in secret communication with, 400; and Republican presidential nomination, 499, 500-501; returns to the Philip­pines, 527; F.D.R. discusses possibil­ity of turning over forces of, to the British, 182; F.D.R. writes to, on movements of Japanese fleet, 226; support for, 176, 182, 204, 206-208, 284; triumphs of, help F.D.R.’s 1944 campaign, 528; Willkie’s demand to bring back, to unify defense effort, 274

  McCloy, John J., 39, 216, 491

  McCormack, John W. 40, 120, 307, 433, 456, 581

  McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 611

  McCormick, Robert R., 39, 45, 132, 212, 275, 358, 421

  McCrea, John, 402

  McDuffie, Lizzie, 599

  McIntire, Ross T., 22, 36, 143, 214, 270, 316, 448, 449, 488, 490, 600, 602

  McIntyre, Marvin, 9, 265, 390, 447, 462

  McKay, Dorothy, 59

  McKellar, Kenneth, 427, 432, 435, 437

  Mackenzie King, William Lyon, 62, 140, 335, 457

  MacLeish, Archibald, 24, 35, 91, 122, 254, 266, 296, 384, 389, 390, 553

  McMahon, Brien, 533

  Macmillan, Harold, 320, 321, 322

  McNary, Charles, 37, 164

  McNutt, Paul V., 265, 334, 335, 337, 432, 452, 460, 504

  McWilliams, Joseph E., 453

  M-9 electrical director, 345

  MAB. See Combined Munitions Assignments Board

  Mackinac Island conference, 400, 428-429, 510

  Maginot Line, 474

  Maine, 86, 131, 490

  Maisky, Ivan M., 102, 111, 373, 399, 565, 611

  Make This the Last War (Straight), 360

  Makin, 443

  Malay Barrier, 203, 209, 223

  Malaya, 20, 158, 165, 182, 201, 203, 204, 211, 240, 444

  Malaya, H.M.S., 64

  Malta, 311, 394, 416, 558, 565

  Manchuria, 19, 20, 79, 545, 574, 575, 576, 577

  Mandated Islands, 443

  Manhattan Engineering District, 251

  Manhattan Project, 456

  Manila, 164, 175, 203, 206, 268, 565, 596

  Mann, Thomas, 358

  Manpower, 246, 332, 334-338, 461, 560, 593. See also Labor

  Mao Tse-tung, 533, 542, 543

  Mare Island Navy Yard, 270

  Mareth Line, 329

  Mariana Islands, 444, 485, 486-487, 488, 489, 540, 558

  Marianas, Battle of the, 486-487, 540

  Maritime Commission, 25, 191, 245

  Markop oil fields, 308

  Marrakesh, 324

  Marriage rate, 461

  Marsala, 382

  Marshall, George C: accused by F.D.R. of ignorance about ships, 201; ad­vocates decisive action against Japan, 242; advocates raising Eisenhower to rank of full general, 319; advocates a unified command of all forces in the Pacific, 181-182, 201; appointment of, reflects F.D.R.’s perspicacity, 350; asked to evaluate situation in the Middle East, 89; assigned to Joint Chiefs of Staff, 183; and atomic-bomb project, 251, 456, 558; attempts to stave off war, 156; cabled in Lon­don by F.D.R. to “put Hopkins to bed,” 221; at Cairo Conference, 402, 407; character and personality, 85; and command of OVERLORD, 415, 494; complains of delays in learning of F.D.R.’s decisions, 453; composes message to Stalin on Anglo-American global strategy, 371; concerned about railroad strike threat, 338; consults Eisenhower for plan of action in the Pacific, 204; cool to Churchill’s of­fer of planes for attack on Japan, 519; and cross-channel attack, 128, 229, 230-231, 233, 234, 235, 236, 242, 287, 316, 317-318, 369-370, 371, 392, 393, 410, 415, 477, 545; decision maker of Joint Chiefs of Staff, 452; and estab­lishment of base in Australia, 186, 204; fears that F.D.R. is swayed by Churchill’s eloquence, 180; hated by draftees, 134; insists on preserving II Corps as a fighting unit, 329; intercepted Japanese war message not relayed to, 161; and MacArthur, 176, 182, 204, 207, 208; at meeting on negotiations with Portugal, 352; meetings with Churchill, 230-231, 236, 314, 369, 371, 389; meeting with Molotov, 232-233, 234; on need for weapons research and training, 343, 344; and North African operation, 287-288, 290, 291, 302, 317; not in­vited to Honolulu Conference, 490; persuades F.D.R. not to commission La Guardia, 491; plans for possibility of attack on the U.S., 86; prepares to abandon the Philippines, 207; promises Churchill tanks for the Mid­dle East, 236; proposal of, to increase army strength, not approved, 246; protégé of General Pershing, 85; re­quested to make study of use of colleges for war purposes, 464; re­views troop dispositions with F.D.R., 163; F.D.R. complains to, on issue of de Gaulle, 481; on F.D.R.’s staff throughout his tenure, 494; Stilwell’s reports to, on China, 375, 378, 542; succeeds in retaining Dill in Wash­ington, 189; supports Stilwell, 376, 377, 544; sworn in as Army Chief of Staff, 85; tries to convince F.D.R. of impregnability of Hawaii, 90; urges F.D.R. to ask Congress for extension of selective service, 120; warns against Chennault plan, 377; at White House correspondents’ dinner, 594; at Yalta Conference, 565

 

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