Word: davieses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joe Davies' prophetic shrewdness was revealed in full last week when he published a collection of his Ambassadorial dispatches, diary entries and correspondence,* a rare collection of almost-current history, by one of the world's friendliest extroverts.
From the outside, Ambassador Davies' *Mission to Moscow; Simon & Schuster; $3. Moscow mission looked like some super Sinclair Lewis saga of a Babbitt among the Bolsheviks. A rich, self-made corporation lawyer from Wisconsin, he ran Woodrow Wilson's Western campaign in 1912, later headed the Federal Trade...
Popularity. But such capitalist baggage did not prevent Joe Davies from giving Russia a detached once-over. The extrovert Ambassador saw Russia, rather than his own prejudgments of Russia. While most Moscow emissaries stayed in their salons and tried to imagine they were in London or Paris, Joe Davies rustled...
Prophecies. In January 1937 he wrote of the inevitability of European war, noting that Germany and Russia alone seemed to take it seriously. In February 1937 he was told by the German Military Attache in Moscow that the Russian Army was strong, and long before Joe Davies left Moscow he...
"I asked, as illustrative of the manner in which wealth was being distributed: 'How much of all of Mrs. Davies' property do you think will go to the State and how much to her children and to her heirs?' He manifested interest. I said, 'More than...