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...Told his press conference that if it were not for advertising someone's wares he would say he had taken great interest in reading American White Paper, a book on U. S. foreign policy by Columnists Joseph Alsop & Robert Kintner (TIME, April...
...with circumstantial detail how Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, in the few brief months leading up to World War II, went about their job of making decisions in U. S. foreign policy. Its name is American White Paper (Simon & Schuster; St). Its authors are Columnists Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner...
...Messrs. Kintner & Alsop, reporting history within a few months of its making, do an extraordinary job. The explicit point from which their narrative starts, and to which it returns, implicitly, again & again, is that the U. S. is a member of the community of democratic nations, aware, and willing to act on its awareness, that what threatens that community also threatens...
Scenes. All this Authors Alsop & Kintner tell in a series of scenes whose detail is almost eyewitness in effect: the President undressing for bed, tossing remarks over his shoulder to Berle in the next room; Hull and Welles in an early-morning call at the White House, the President propped against pillows, amid a litter of breakfast tray, morning papers, cables from abroad, wearing "a peculiar small cape of blue flannel trimmed and monogrammed with red braid, like an expensive summer horse-blanket...
...this case, however," say Alsop & Kintner, "far more than in any other, the ultimate decision must rest wholly with public opinion. If our history has a lesson, it is that in these times one must pray, above all things, that public opinion will be wise and well-informed...