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...CAME: AN AMERICAN WHITE PAPER FROM THE FALL OF FRANCE TO PEARL HARBOR-Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley-Simon & Schuster...
...point of ribaldry. It is cheeky to call such a book a "white paper." But these days Washington is a breezy hub of the world, where cuss words, flippancy and wisecracks distinguish the august and the great. The Secretary of State lisps, and therefore says "Jesus Kwyst!," report Davis & Lindley, whose admiration for Cordell Hull's profanity and cracker-box yarns about mules, shirttails and barnyard fowl is right in the Washington groove...
...self -confidence. Mr. Roosevelt kicked over the traces with his undiplomatic dagger-in-the-back reference to Mussolini. But "18th-Century" Sumner Welles, who was vexed about the dagger, is "erroneously regarded by left-wing intellectuals in this country as a 'reactionary' force in foreign policy." Davis & Lindley prove their point by revealing that while U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were at their worst, Mr. Welles on his own initiative held innumerable secret conferences with Soviet Ambassador Oumansky. In January 1941 Welles tipped off the Bolsheviks that the Nazis would invade Russia in June. Both Churchill...
...industrious Hoosiers also do a thorough and not unscholarly job of tracing State Department policy, especially down the long, long trails to Vichy and Tokyo. Davis & Lindley feel that the Administration was never hoodwinked by the Lavals or Tojos and in the main successfully finessed them. Secretary Hull is pictured as having worn himself down in health and strength by some 60 secret conferences, mostly at night, with Japanese Ambassador Nomura in the last desperate months before Pearl Harbor. Hull's explanation of these parleys in his apartment: "The military fellows [U.S. and British] are after me to hold...
...Adolf Hitler, on the war's third anniversary, hinted that Japan would soon attack Russia. In How War Came, published last week, Reporters Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley report that in the Tripartite Pact Japan promised Germany to attack Siberia when the German Army reached the Volga...