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by David B. Woolner


  Alice, Princess, 219, 221

  Allcorn, Frank, 262, 269, 279

  Allied Control Commission, 4, 88, 93, 95

  Allies, 1–2

  divisions among, 3–4, 12–13, 50

  German Operation Wool against, 252

  invasion of Berlin by, 82, 247–248, 259

  See also specific topics

  American Jewish Committee, 214, 216

  American public

  death of FDR and, 287–288, 290–291

  FDR and, 101–102, 182–184, 186, 187, 190, 223, 293–294

  health of FDR and, 6–7

  selling Yalta conference to, 182–185

  Soviet Union and, 223

  United Nations and, 4, 14, 101–102, 183, 190, 223

  Yalta address and, 190

  Anderson, Howard, 280

  Anglo-American Alliance, 49

  Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 162

  Anglo-Americans

  Bern incident and, 203–204, 229, 248–253, 264, 265, 272

  differences with Stalin, 203, 264

  Anglo-Soviet Treaty of Alliance, 76

  Anthony, George, 231

  Arabs. See Egyptian trip; Palestinian problem

  Ardennes battle, 1–2, 10, 12, 56, 82

  Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 102

  Asia

  FDR and purpose of war in, 59–60

  Soviet-American cooperation and postwar, 119, 120

  See also specific Asian countries

  Athlone, Earl of, 219, 221

  Atlantic Charter, 2–4, 14, 15, 55, 96

  Yalta conference and, 136, 137, 179, 183, 190, 298

  atomic bomb, development

  Britain and, 171–174, 206

  Churchill, Winston, and, 171–173, 205–206

  Einstein and, 171, 208

  Germany and, 171

  Hyde Park Memorandum, 206, 208

  Manhattan Project, 172, 205–208

  Maud Report, 171–172

  US and, 117, 171–173, 205–208

  atomic bomb, international control of

  Bohr and, 205–206

  Churchill, Winston, and, 205–206

  UN Charter, 207

  US and, 205–207

  atomic bomb, usage

  on Japan, 206, 208

  resistance to, 205, 207–208

  US and, 207–208

  atomic energy research, 174

  Azores, 39

  Bachelder, Toinette “Toi,” 270, 274

  Ball, Joseph A., 2

  Barkley, Alben, 185–186

  Baruch, Bernard, 225, 228

  Beary, Jim, 274, 275

  Benes, Eduard, 97, 98, 127, 134

  Berlin, invasion of, 82–83, 247–248, 259

  Bern incident, 203–204, 228, 229, 248–253, 264, 265, 272

  Bethesda Naval Hospital, 218

  Bethune, Mary McLeod, 294

  Big Three, 4, 41–42

  peace after victory for, 213

  Big Three conferences

  Chandor sketch of Big Three at Yalta, 214, 215

  Livadia Palace photo session, 129

  See also Tehran conference; Yalta conference

  bill of human rights, international, 214, 216

  Bingham and Garfield Railroad, 35

  Blaustein, Jacob, 214, 216

  Bliss Lane, Arthur, 97, 120

  Boettiger, John, 8, 182, 192, 218, 255

  Bohlen, Charles, 77, 92, 106, 115, 132, 173, 176, 197, 198

  Bohr, Niels, 205–206

  Bonner, Daisy, 240

  Brady, Dorothy, 19, 233, 266, 270

  Brazil, monazite deposits, 173

  Britain

  aid to Soviet Union from, 75–76

  atomic bomb development and, 171–174, 206

  competition over Europe with Soviet Union, 57

  death of FDR and, 291

  France and, 79

  Greece and, 3, 9, 52, 196

  Italy and, 3, 49, 51

  Malta and, 44–48, 50, 55, 56, 58, 60

  Middle East oil and, 149

  Palestinian problem and, 145–150

  Parliament and Poland, 184

  Poland and, 105, 115, 122–123, 128, 130, 132, 184, 196, 263–264

  problems between US and, 48–50, 171–173

  Saudi Arabia and, 158–159

  state trip to, 224

  United Nations and, 52–54

  victory over Germans in Egypt, 170–171

  White Paper of 1939, 146, 147, 148, 150

  See also Anglo-Americans; Churchill, Winston; specific topics

  British Chiefs of Staff, 49, 247–248

  single-thrust strategy of, 56–57

  See also Combined Chiefs of Staff

  British delegation, to Yalta conference, 16, 38–39, 42, 47, 48, 50, 61

  Vorontzov Palace housing of, 68–69

  See also Yalta conference

  British imperialism

  Churchill, Winston, and, 171

  Soviet-American cooperation and, 119

  US and, 51, 59

  Brown, Betty, 269

  Brown, Wilson, 32, 37, 40–42, 153, 178

  Bruenn, Howard, 5, 6, 192, 225

  at Warm Springs, 242–243, 254, 259, 268, 274–278, 280, 281, 286

  Yalta trip and, 32, 62, 70, 74, 84, 87, 112–113, 125, 177

  Bulloch, Martha Stewart, 239

  Bush, Vannevar, 171, 207

  Byrnes, James, 22, 35, 84–85, 103, 115, 182–183, 192, 227, 235

  Cadogan, Alexander, 63, 101, 110

  Canada, 199–200, 262

  Carver Cottage, 273, 275

  Casablanca conference, 46, 48, 79

  Catholic Church, 36, 37, 118, 119

  Catoctin, USS, 66, 67, 142, 167

  Chamberlain, Neville, 145

  Chandor, Douglas, 213–214, 215

  Cherwell, Lord, 172–174

  China, 55, 138, 228

  Combined Chiefs of Staff and strategy for, 58–59

  FDR and, 58–59, 118–120

  war against Japan and, 57, 119, 120

  Churchill, Sarah, 34, 55, 66, 70, 169–170, 173, 174

  Churchill, Winston, 9, 34, 158

  Athens speech, 170

  atomic bomb and, 171–173, 205–206

  atomic research and, 174

  Bern incident and, 204, 251–252, 264, 265, 272

  British imperialism and, 171

  confrontational approach to Soviet Union of, 204

  Crimea journey to Yalta conference, 62, 63, 66

  death of FDR and, 291–293

  early tripartite conversations and, 76

  Eastern Europe and, 196, 197

  Egyptian meeting with FDR, 169–171, 173–174

  European Theater and, 49

  health of FDR and, 225, 237

  Ibn Saud and, 164–165

  invasion of Berlin and, 247–248, 259

  Malta and, 45, 47, 48, 50, 55, 56, 58, 60

  Netherlands and, 265

  Palestinian problem and, 147, 164–165

  percentages agreement with Stalin, 51–52, 135

  personal friendship with FDR, 225–226

  Poland and, 98, 100, 104–107, 110–111, 122–123, 127–132, 135, 184, 196, 197, 236–237, 263–264

  Tehran conference and, 15, 48, 50

  territorial issues and, 196

  United Nations and, 101, 103, 109–110, 114, 122

  in Vorontzov Palace, 68–69

  Yalta accords and, 196, 236

  Yalta conference and, 16, 38–39, 42, 47, 48, 50, 70–71, 81, 83, 85, 86, 91–95, 97, 101, 103–107, 109–111, 114, 122–124, 127–132, 134–139, 169–170, 179, 184

  See also Big Three; Britain

  Clay, Lucius, 235

  coal miners strike, 199, 223, 235

  Cohen, Benjamin, 293, 296

  colonialism, 59, 120, 137

  Combined Chiefs of Staff

  China and Far East strategy of, 58–59

  European strategy of, 56–58

/>   invasion of Berlin and, 247–248

  Malta meeting of, 50, 56–60

  Yalta conference and, 82, 111, 129

  Commodity Credit Corporation bill, 271–272

  communism, 76, 98, 134

  See also socialism

  Conant, James, 207

  Congress

  FDR losing control of, 259

  manpower bill and, 13, 197, 235, 259

  Netherlands crisis and, 212

  selling Yalta conference to, 182–186

  UN Charter and, 185

  United Nations and, 183, 185

  World War II and, 12–13, 15–16, 31

  Yalta address to, 163, 182, 186–192

  conservation, 19, 21, 109, 297

  Crimea, German conquering of, 77, 141

  Crimea conference. See Yalta conference

  Crimea journey, to Yalta conference

  Churchill, Winston, on, 62, 63, 66

  overview, 61–66

  Roosevelt, Anna, with FDR on, 62–64, 66

  Curzon Line, 89, 99, 100, 104, 105, 110, 115, 131

  Czechoslovak-Russian Treaty of Friendship, 98

  Daisy. See Suckley, Margaret “Daisy”

  Daniels, Jonathan, 192, 227–228, 236, 237

  Davis, Ralph, 285

  de Gaulle, Charles, 12, 41, 59, 79

  death, of FDR, 179, 299–300

  American public and, 287–288, 290–291

  Britain and, 291

  burial site at Hyde Park, 289–290

  Churchill, Winston, and, 291–293

  Early and, 278–279, 283–286

  funeral, 289–290

  at opportune moment, 292–293

  press and, 280–281, 292

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, and, 283–287

  Roosevelt, James, and, 284–285, 287

  Rutherfurd and, 285, 287

  San Francisco conference and, 292–293

  Soviet Union and, 291

  Stalin and, 291, 292

  Suckley and, 279, 286, 287

  Truman and, 283–286

  Tully and, 279, 286–287

  at Warm Springs, 278–288

  world reaction to, 290–291

  Declaration of Liberated Europe, 75, 136, 183, 196

  Declaration of United Nations, 12,121, 122

  Delano, Amasa, 261

  Delano, Laura “Polly”

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, and, 255, 276, 287

  Suckley and, 195, 245, 246, 254, 255, 258, 261, 262, 266, 268, 271, 274, 276, 279, 286

  at Warm Springs, 240, 254, 255, 258, 262, 268, 271, 273, 274, 276, 278, 279, 286–287

  Democratic Convention

  1924, 186

  1928, 186–187

  1944, 21–22

  Department of Commerce, US, 16, 21, 28, 39–40, 197

  Dewey, Thomas E., 7

  Dowdell’s Knob, 262

  Dresden, bombing of, 111–112

  Drury, Allen, 220–221

  Dulles, Allen, 203, 252

  Dumbarton Oaks conference, 53, 54, 108

  Dunn, James, 207, 235

  Early, Stephen, 42, 176, 198, 227, 235, 276

  death of FDR and, 278–279, 283–286

  Eastern Europe

  Churchill, Winston, and, 196, 197

  FDR and, 14, 15, 98, 133, 135, 137, 204, 223

  Soviet Union and, 15–16, 76, 77, 98, 133, 135, 196, 197, 204

  as “sphere of influence” of Soviets, 135, 197

  Yalta conference and, 88, 135, 137

  Economic Bill of Rights speech (1944), 13, 294

  Eddy, William, 155, 161, 162

  Eden, Anthony, 50, 295–296

  Yalta trip and, 54–55, 59, 60, 76, 92, 99, 103, 106, 107, 110, 121, 128, 131, 132

  Egypt

  El Alamein, 170

  Alexandria, 167, 169, 170, 173

  British victory over Germans in, 170–171

  Tobruk, 170–171

  US delegation to Yalta conference in, 143

  Egyptian trip

  Churchill, Winston, meeting with FDR, 169–171, 173–174

  Farouk visit, 153

  Hopkins, Harry, on, 174–176

  Ibn Saud meeting, 155–165

  motivations for, 143

  Palestinian problem and, 143, 151, 152, 159–166

  Roosevelt, Anna, on, 156, 167, 169, 173, 175, 176

  Selassie visit, 153, 154

  Stettinius and, 151, 173

  Einstein, Albert, 171, 208

  Eisenhower, Dwight David, 56, 58, 247, 248

  Esperancilla, Joe, 273, 274

  Ethiopia, 153, 154

  Eureka II, 88

  Europe

  British and Soviet competition over, 57

  Combined Chiefs of Staff and strategy for, 56–58

  Declaration of Liberated Europe, 75, 136, 183, 196

  victory anticipated, 227, 258, 262

  See also Eastern Europe; specific topics

  European Theater, 49

  Far East

  Combined Chiefs of Staff and strategy for, 58–59

  imperialism in, 120

  and US-Soviet agreement, 116–120

  Farouk, King, 153

  Fayerweather, Margaret, 233, 234

  FDR. See Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  Feis, Herbert, 150

  fireside chats, wartime, 72

  Flynn, Edward J., 35–37, 52, 118, 296

  Foreign Ministers, Yalta conference and, 80, 92, 93, 121,127, 128

  Forrestal, James, 199

  Four Freedoms, 74, 137, 183, 220, 298

  Fox, George, 10, 87, 275

  France

  Allied Control Commission and, 88, 93, 95

  Britain and, 79

  in postwar Germany plans, 88, 90, 93, 95

  US and, 79

  Yalta conference discussions about, 88, 90, 93, 95

  Frankfurter, Felix, 205

  Fredericks, Charlie, 10, 209, 270, 277

  French journalists visit, 198–199

  Fulbright and Connelly resolutions (1943), 31

  George VI, 45, 292

  Georgia. See Warm Springs

  Georgia Hall, 240, 242, 269, 272, 274

  Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, 240, 270, 27

  minstrel show at, 269, 281–282

  German military, 1–2, 248

  British victory in Egypt over, 170–171

  Crimea conquered by, 77, 141

  in Netherlands, 212–213, 265

  Sevastopol taken by, 141

  Soviet victories against, 73

  Yalta occupation, 66–67, 141

  See also World War II; specific topics

  German problem, 89, 95

  Germany

  Allies’ invasion of Berlin, 247–248, 259

  atomic bomb development by, 171

  Bern incident, 203–204, 248–253, 264, 265, 272

  bombings of, 111–112

  Ibn Saud on, 159–160

  Operation Wool, 252

  Palestinian problem and, 159–160

  Poland and migration of German people, 111

  Soviet Union and, 57, 75–77, 135

  Tehran conference discussions about, 89, 90, 91

  Yalta conference discussions about, 80–83, 87–95, 138–139

  See also Hitler, Adolph; Nazis; postwar Germany plans; specific topics

  Great Bitter Lake, 143, 154, 155, 166

  See also Egyptian trip

  Greece

  Athens speech of Churchill, Winston, 170

  Britain and, 3, 9, 52, 196, 197

  FDR and, 4, 14, 31, 100, 188

  Greer, De Witt, 279, 280

  Grew, Joseph, 217

  Gromyko, Andrei, 54, 76, 100

  Hachmeister, Louise “Hacky,” 257, 270, 274, 275, 280

  Halifax, Edward, 12, 134, 149, 197, 237

  Harriman, Averell, 116–117, 229, 272, 292

  on Yalta trip, 52, 69, 70, 83–85, 101, 115, 142

  Harriman, Kathleen, 69–70, 74, 85, 124, 125

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nbsp; Hassett, William, 181, 192, 230, 233

  at Warm Springs, 242, 243, 245, 246, 257, 261, 271, 273, 275–277, 278, 280, 286

  Hatch, Carl A., 2

  the Hawk (FDR’s ice-yacht), 194

  health, of FDR

  American public and, 6–7

  anorexia, 225

  cerebral hemorrhage, 13, 276, 277

  Churchill, Winston, and, 225, 237

  collapse at Warm Springs, 273–278

  as failing, 4–7, 9, 21, 23, 26, 191–193, 198, 211, 225, 228, 237, 239–240, 242–245, 268

  fatigue, 191–193, 199–200, 225, 232–233, 242–245, 268, 271

  health regimen, 5, 199

  heart disease, 4–6

  presidential campaign of 1944 and, 6–7, 296

  Roosevelt, Anna (daughter), 192, 246, 276

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, and, 181, 200, 233–234, 260, 276, 296

  secrecy about, 6, 296

  Soviet Union and, 225, 297

  Suckley and, 10, 43, 195, 232–233, 243–245, 254, 258, 273–275, 278

  United Nations and, 243

  at Warm Springs, 243–245, 254, 258, 259, 267–268, 271, 273–278

  Yalta address and, 191

  Yalta trip and, 31–32, 34, 35, 43, 59–60, 62, 63, 70, 74, 87, 112–113, 125, 142, 167, 175, 177, 181–182, 186, 191–192

  See also death, of FDR

  Hitler, Adolph, 1–2, 45, 73, 220, 252

  See also Germany

  Holocaust, 144, 147

  Hoover, Herbert, 213

  Hopkins, Harry

  close relationship with FDR, 70

  Egyptian trip and, 174–176

  health problems, 71, 115, 169, 175–176

  Roosevelt, Anna, and, 70–71, 74

  Yalta trip and, 38, 41–42, 52, 59, 60, 70–71, 74, 101, 106, 110, 115, 169

  Hopkins, Robert, 129

  Hornbeck, Stanley, 211–212

  Hoskins, Harold, 149–150, 163, 164

  Hull, Cordell, 53, 90, 92, 97, 115, 146, 147, 218–219

  Hurley, Patrick, 120, 228

  Hyde Park, 18, 19, 193, 195, 209, 231–233, 261

  burial site of FDR, 232, 234, 289–290

  Christmas at, 1–10

  Rose Garden, 232, 289

  World War II memorial, 300

  Hyde Park Memorandum, 206, 208

  Ibn Saud, Abdul Aziz, 149, 151, 193

  Churchill, Winston, and, 164–165

  Egyptian trip meeting with FDR, 155–165

  on Germany, 159–160

  Palestinian problem and, 159–165

  Ickes, Harold, 192, 199, 223

  Ickes, Raymond, 199

  immigration. See Jewish immigration

  imperialism

  in Far East, 120

  See also British imperialism

  Inter-American Conference on the Problems of War and Peace, 173

  international bill of human rights proposal, 214, 216

  isolationism, FDR and, 30–31, 100, 294

  Italy, 58, 122

  attack on Abyssinia (1935), 153–154

  Britain and, 3, 38, 49, 51

  See also Bern incident

  Iwo Jima, 197, 199

  Jackson, Graham, 269, 281

  Jackson, Irene, 210, 211

 

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