Back Door to WarThe Roosevelt Foreign Policy1933-1941 pdf

Back Door to War The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941 [...]... and France to Consult with Her with Regard to a Common Front against Japan 504 k Japan Asks Secretary Hull for a Joint Japanese-American Effort to Find Some Formula of Peace for Europe 505 X X I I E U R O P E M O V E S TOWARDS W A R a Chamberlain Makes a Momentous Pledge to Poland b Lord Halifax Tries to "Work Something Out" with the Duce c Mussolini Moves into Albania d American Reaction to the Seizure... cities, and Americans had to be carefully guarded against violence.5 Britain had been too astute to lend a helping hand to Roosevelt in arranging peace terms The role of peacemaker had no attractions for the British Foreign Secretary President Roosevelt soon discovered that his policy of "balanced antagonisms" in the Far East was a flat failure.6 Japanese statesmen were too clever to keep alive their diplomatic... 4-10 6 BACK DOOR TO WAR strong to be continually rebuffed In 1909, after a series of notes in which Grey moved from one position to another with equal impudence, the British Government finally accepted arbitration of the age-old quarrel with America concerning the North Atlantic fisheries Two years later he responded to American pressure and helped to write a profitable conclusion to the long story of... X X V ROOSEVELT SEEKS A P R E T E X T F O R W A R WITH GERMANY 584 a Hitler Launches a Blitzkrieg along the Western Front 584 b Roosevelt Regards Neutrality as an Outmoded Concept 586 c The President Makes a Third Plea to Mussolini to Stay Out of the War 590 d Reynaud Makes a Last Appeal to Roosevelt for Immediate Military Assistance 591 e The Destroyer Deal 595 f Propaganda Pushes America towards... Refuses to Meet Prince Konoye 640 t General Marshall and Admiral Stark Oppose an Ultimatum to Japan 642 u Japan Is Maneuvered into Firing the First Shot at Pearl Harbor 645 BIBLIOGRAPHY 653 INDEX 669 Back Door to War HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION a The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship THE MAIN OBJECTIVE in American foreign policy since 1900 has been the preservation of the British Empire Intimate ties between... because he often undertook to launch policies himself which he, the President, had on several occasions rather brusquely reversed." House Diary, March 28, 1917 House MS, Yale University Library 16 10 BACK DOOR TO WAR e The Allies Violate the Pre-Armistice Contract In the period immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II it was the habit of President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull to talk constantly... The story of this betrayal began on October 5, 1918, when Prince Max of Baden, addressed a note to President Wilson requesting him to negotiate a peace on the basis of the Fourteen Points Three days later the President inquired if the German Government accepted these points as the basis for a treaty On October 12, Prince Max gave assurance that his object in "entering into discussions would be only to. .. Reparation Commission which would have far-reaching powers to estimate what Germany could afford to pay on Allied claims and to modify the manner and date of these payments But Clemenceau wanted this commission to be nothing more than a glorified adding machine designed merely to register the sums Germany should pay It was to have no right to make independent judgments The American contention that... Intervention 599 g Lend-Lease Back Door to Intervention in World War II 602 h Hitler Is Anxious to Avoid Conflict with the United States 606 X X V I J A P A N I S M A N E U V E R E D I N T O FIRING T H E FIRST S H O T AT PEARL H A R B O R a Japanese Bombings of Chungking b The Tientsin Affair c Chiang Kai-shek Asks that Roosevelt Mediate in Sino-Japanese War d The President's Attitude towards Japan Becomes... Plays Host to Lord Halifax f Britain Blocks a Presidential Program for Peace 350 354 359 360 362 368 X V I H I T L E R T A K E S OVER AUSTRIA AS A L O N G - D E L A Y E D S T E P TOWARDS Anschluss a b c d e f The Viennese Waltz Takes on Macabre Overtones Schuschnigg Pays a Visit to Berchtesgaden Lord Halifax Learns the Price of Appeasement British Appeasement of Italy Is Too Little and Too Late Hitler . Back Door to War The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941