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INDEX
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ABMs (antiballistic missiles), 615–17
Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 185–86, 211, 418
Abs, Hermann J., 329, 366, 368–69, 382, 383, 403, 593
Acheson, Alice, 628
Acheson, Dean, 49, 50, 102, 103, 112, 249, 264, 276–78, 290, 293, 299, 301, 302, 320, 386, 408, 499, 507, 509, 527
“German problem” as viewed by, 305, 311, 318, 324, 325–26, 328, 333, 339, 342, 349, 363, 374, 376, 378, 379, 380, 381, 383, 478, 587, 621, 623
McCloy’s relationship with, 54, 99, 100, 111, 131, 132, 305, 311, 312, 316, 317, 318, 392, 393, 508, 510
Vietnam War as viewed by, 577, 578, 581, 597, 598
Acheson Committee, 276–82
Acheson-Lilienthal Plan, 278–82
Adams, John, 419–20, 421
Adams, Sherman, 408, 433–34
Adenauer, Gussi Zinsser, 319, 320
Adenauer, Konrad, 329, 354
background of, 318–19
as chancellor, 318, 321, 326–27, 335, 336, 344, 380, 479, 480–81, 512, 524, 541, 591
death of, 592
economic policies of, 337
German rearmament supported by, 339–40, 342–43, 344, 586
German reunification as viewed by, 335, 336, 378, 379, 621, 622
McCloy’s relationship with, 314, 319–22, 323, 324–27, 334, 340–41, 342, 362, 363, 372, 377, 382, 383, 384, 403–4, 414, 415, 478, 520
Adenauer, Paul, 319
Adham, Kamal, 633
Adler, Julius Ochs, 106, 110
Advisory Committee on Negro Troop Policy, 187, 188
Agudath Israel World Organization, 211
Ahrendt, Carl, 92, 93
Akins, James E., 625, 626, 627–29
Akzin, Benjamin, 214–15
Albania, 354–55
Aldrich, Winthrop, 98, 107, 274, 388, 391, 393, 394, 395, 397, 441, 453, 456
Alexander, Henry, 497
Allen, George E., 281
Allen, Richard V., 614
Allied Advisory Council, 266–68
Allied Chemical Co., 15, 605, 606
Allied High Commission for Occupied Germany (HICOG), 314, 317, 321, 328, 330, 331, 336, 347–50, 351–53, 363, 369, 37°, 372, 406, 407, 408, 410, 416, 426
Alsop, Joseph, 112, 125, 313, 482, 548, 580
Altschul, Frank, 108, 110, 111, 276, 457, 458
America First, 109, 135, 136
American Banker, 289
American Black Chamber (Yardley)
, 85
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 154, 165, 166
American Committee for a United Europe, 471
American Council on Germany, 15, 478–79, 624
American Cyanamid & Chemical Corporation, 102
American Dilemma in Viet-Nam, 572
American Express Company, 484
American Friends Service Committee, 162
American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), 485
American Jewish Committee, 482
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 314
American Protective League, 94
Amerika Haus, 407–8
Amherst Monthly, 40, 44
Anderson, Dillon, 429
Anderson, Robert B., 605, 614
Anglers’ Club, 15, 99
Angleton, James Jesus, 560
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 482
antitrust legislation, 55, 58, 62, 175, 274–75, 402, 404–5, 517, 518, 627–29, 630–31, 634, 640
Arab Boycott Committee, 568
ARAMCO, 441–45, 541, 633–35
Arcadia Conference, 144–46
Architectual Forum, 455
Armao, Robert, 644
Armour, Ogden, 65
arms control, 282, 465–69, 487–91, 498–503, 505–8, 512–18, 521, 615–17, 622, 655, 657, 662–63
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 488–89, 508, 513–14, 516, 521
Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 63, 109, 457, 458, 462, 581, 585, 619
Army, U.S.:
Communists in, 185–86, 228–29
desegregation of, 175, 186–89, 211, 542–43, 662
Intelligence operation (G-2) of, 117, 118, 125, 129, 130, 142, 156, 228–29, 257, 353, 417
Japanese-Americans in, 168–69
Army Air Corps, U.S., 125–26, 134
Army-McCarthy hearings, 409, 415, 419, 421, 426
Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,” 217, 303
Arnold, Thurman, 274, 597
Aspen Institute, 15, 624
Astor, John Jacob, 42
Aswan High Dam, 445, 448–49
AT&T, 15, 396, 439, 513
Atlantic Charter, 257
Atlantic Institute, 15, 586–87
atomic bomb:
development of, 185, 234, 240, 246–47
Eisenhower’s views on, 253–54, 264
international control of, 237, 275–82
McCloy’s views on, 185, 246–47, 251, 262–64, 275–82, 423