Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic council became a respected voice of prudence and wisdom, it would well earn its $45,000 salary. And it could hardly do worse than the improvised, off-the-arm economics of such recent dilettante practitioners as Henry Morgenthau and John Snyder...
...astonishing confusion of orders and messages, and differences of opinion at the top which had hamstrung action. (Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, was ready to appease Japan with a $2 billion loan and "most favored nation" status...
...amused by Coolidge's shyness, repelled by Hoover's icy remoteness, but Clapper did his dogged best to exclude these personal feelings from what he wrote. One Roosevelt story that Clapper never wrote, and his widow now tells, concerns a rumor that spread through Washington that Henry Morgenthau would become Ambassador to France. Franklin Roosevelt heard of it, jotted off a note to his Treasury Secretary: "Henry, see by the newspapers you are going to Paris. . . . As Al Smith is reported to have wired the Pope after the 1928 election-'Unpack...
...another sorry failure: after the attack, Army radar operators watched the Japanese planes scooting northward to their carriers; the Navy received this information two days after its futile searching to the south. ¶ Mined from deep in the layers of testimony was a memorandum from ex-Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, written shortly before Pearl Harbor, recommending that Japan be bought off. Morgenthau was willing to lend Japan $2 billion, give her an immigration quota and "most favored nation" status, reduce U.S. naval strength in the Pacific. The memo was passed on to Secretary of State Hull who, at about the same...
...does not want to make Germany a nation of foresters and goatherds, as envisaged by former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. It wants Germany to be able to sustain itself, but only after the neighbors its armies overran have been given a head start toward recovery...