Authors: James MacGregor Burns
Great Lakes Naval Training Station,
268-269
Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
143
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere,
78
,
79
,
217
,
218
Greater East Asia War,
217
Greece: aid to,
65
; and Allied advance in Italy,
395
; and Churchill,
74
,
75-76
,
77
,
484
,
537
,
538-539
,
579
,
583
; conquest of, by Germany,
65
,
71
,
74
,
88
,
94
,
204
; counteroffensive in,
314
; and Great Britain,
74
,
75-76
,
314
,
365
,
395
,
484
,
537
,
538
,
583
,
586
; invasion of, by Italy,
14-15
,
71
; liberation of,
534
; F.D.R. and Eden discuss,
365
; and Russia,
484
,
537
,
538
,
583
,
586
; F.D.R. wires Churchill condolences on loss of,
77
; as signatory of Declaration of Allied Unity,
185
; and the U.S.,
77
,
88
,
314
,
395
,
484
,
538-539
,
586
Green, Theodore Francis,
48
,
427
Green, William,
55
,
177
,
260
,
264
,
521
Grew, Joseph C,
19
,
20
,
21-22
,
29
,
62
,
78
,
84
,
110
,
135
,
135
,
144
,
146
,
159
,
552-553
Gromyko, Andrei A.,
398
,
516
,
517-518
,
565
,
584
Ground Controlled Approach system,
346
Gruening, Ernest,
266
Guadalcanal,
255
,
256
,
282
,
283-285
,
302
,
337
,
382
Guam,
164
,
165
,
172
,
175
,
201
,
202
,
486
,
487
Guantanamo,
493
Guatemala,
185
Guffey, Joseph,
421
Gulick, Luther,
355
Gunther, John,
56-58
GYMNAST,
179-181
Haakon, King of Norway,
62
Hackmeister, Louise (“Hackie”),
200
Hague, Frank,
276
Hahn, Otto,
249
Hainan,
78
Haider, Franz,
496
Halifax, Canada,
392
Halifax, Lord,
11
,
74
,
179
,
365
,
457
,
484
,
581
,
591
Halsey, William F. (“Bull”),
224
,
443
,
444
,
540
Hanford, atomic bomb project at,
456
Hankow,
541
Hannegan, Robert E.,
276
,
503
,
504
,
505
,
506
,
524
Hannover,
595
Hara, Yoshimichi,
138
Harbin,
574
Harbors, artificial,
477
Harriman, W. Averell,
73
,
88
,
153
,
163
,
237-238
,
406
,
536
,
537
,
539
,
564
,
566
,
572
,
573
,
574
,
577
,
583
,
601
Hart, Thomas C,
206
Harvard Crimson
,
491
Harvard University,
4
,
189
,
344
,
604
Hassett, William D.,
22
,
199
,
200
,
208
,
224
,
253
,
298
,
350
,
390
,
436
,
437
,
447
,
493
,
530
,
552
,
553
,
595
,
599
,
600
,
601
Hastie, William,
471
Hawaii,
78
,
80
,
86
,
90
,
110
,
159
,
160
,
164
,
166
,
172
,
176
,
177
,
203
,
222
,
225
,
226
,
266
,
403
,
488-489
,
507
.
See also
Honolulu; Honolulu Conference; Pearl Harbor
Hayes, Roland,
265
Health, in the U.S.,
54
,
355
,
560
Hearst, William Randolph,
212
,
421
,
497
,
498
,
500
Heavy water,
252
Henderson, Leon,
51
,
116
,
197
,
257
,
258
,
301
,
340
,
350
Henderson Field,
284
Henry Browne, Farmer
(documentary film),
271
Hess, Rudolf,
102
Hickam Field,
489
Higgins, Trumbull,
549
Higgins Yard, New Orleans,
270
Hill, Lister,
532
Hillman, Sidney,
51
,
52
,
55-56
,
117
,
123
,
263
,
524
,
525
Hilton, James,
224
Hindus, in India,
219
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan,
18
,
19
,
137
,
138
,
146
,
158
,
160
,
558-559
Hiss, Alger,
565
Histories of the war,
389
Hitler, Adolf: and the Allied invasion of France,
474-475
; anxiety to divert U.S. efforts to the Pacific,
20
; assesses the African situation as hopeless,
330
; attempts to divert F.D.R. from giving aid to Britain,
16
; avoidance of showdown with U.S.,
13
,
105
,
106
; bent on conquering the world,
109
; bomb plot,
496
; character of,
66-68
; as commander in chief,
496
; desires friendship with England,
14
; dominates U.S. politics,
6
; dream of the “New Order,”
18
; drives thousands of scientists from Europe to America,
343
; fall of,
366
,
545
; fear and contempt for the U.S.,
16
,
174
, and hatred of the Russians,
70
,
309-310
; and Franco,
14
,
64
,
73
; hatred 310; hatred of Jews,
70
,
310
,
387
; in his last days,
557
; infuriated by F.D.R.’s escalation of the war,
141
; interpretation of Freedom,
387
; learns of F.D.R.’s death,
601
; letter to Mussolini on Russian invasion,
96
; as a master propagandist,
386
; meeting with Laval,
295
; meeting with Matsuoka,
80
; meeting with Molotov,
16-17
; meetings with Mussolini,
15
,
330
,
383
,
394
; meeting with Pétain,
14
; meeting with Rommel,
477
;
Mein Kampf
,
68
,
70
; as a military commander,
228
; military strategy of,
308-309
; opinion of the British,
70
,
310
; opinion of Churchill,
309
; opinion of F.D.R.,
15
,
67-68
,
174
,
309
,
475
; opinion of Stalin,
15
,
68-69
,
309
; opposed by his generals,
71
; order of the day not to withdraw in Italy,
439
; personal power in 1941 almost total,
70
; and Pétain,
14
,
15
,
64
,
287
,
288
; ponders his strategic situation,
68-70
; postpones invasion of England,
10
; postpones invasion of Russia,
72
; propaganda campaign to the workers of the world,
17
; promises to Stalin,
94
; reaction to F.D.R.’s re-election,
13-14
; refrains from provocative acts against the U.S.,
69
; resistance to,
548
; as seen by F.D.R.,
67
,
68
,
140-141
; as seen by the Russians,
67
; as seen by Stalin,
113
,
409
; speech on Fascism and the New Order, December 1940,
17-18
; speech on seventeenth anniversary of Beer Hall Putsch,
14
; “stand or die” military policy,
309
,
477
,
482
; statement of opposing worlds quoted by F.D.R.,
28
; strategic decision of a two-front war,
15-16
,
17
,
68
,
69
,
97
; strategy in Poland as example of military genius of,
15
,
68
,
80
; strategy of,
13-18
,
64
; summons Prince Paul to secret meeting,
71
; supreme gamble in West,
553-554
; typical gesture,
606
; and the U.S. gift of destroyers to British,
12
; wants Japan to attack the Russians,
108
; wins support of his generals,
554
; in world opinion,
66-67
; world strategy,
66
; would declare war on U.S.,
173
; xenophobia and racism,
17
,
70
,
174
,
310
,
387
“Hobcaw” (plantation),
449
,
450
,
455
,
507
,
509
Ho Chi Minh,
593
Hochschule für Politik,
386
Hodges, Courtney H.,
482
Holland.
See
Netherlands
Hollandia,
444
Holman, Rufus C,
431
Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
611
Honan,
541
Honduras,
185
Hong Kong,
79
,
149
,
165
,
175
,
201
,
203
,
404
,
575
Honolulu Conference,
488-489
,
490
,
496
,
507
Honshu,
590
Hood
, H.M.S.,
99
Hoover, Herbert,
38
,
111
,
356
,
426
,
528
,
542
Hopkins, Harry,
57
,
88
,
104-105
,
182
,
416
,
524
; accompanies F.D.R. on Caribbean cruise,
24
; advises F.D.R. on China,
377
; at Argentia Conference,
126
,
129
; and James Byrnes,
262
; at Cairo Conference,
402
,
406
,
409
; at Casablanca Conference,
316
,
322
; character,
60-61
; Chennault’s plea to, for supplies,
445
; and Madame Chiang Kai-shek,
376
; as chief aide to F.D.R.,
8
,
22
,
33
,
39
,
50
,
60-61
,
85
,
89
,
91
,
126
,
129
,
136
,
161
,
162
,
178
,
182
,
183
,
185
,
194
,
200
,
232
,
248
,
297
,
350
,
353
,
453
,
465
,
495
,
561
; Churchill’s confidence in,
183
; Churchill’s letter to, urging assault on Algiers,
289
,
290
; criticism of,
60
,
211
; discusses plans with Eden and F.D.R.,
365
,
366
; distrusts Bernard Baruch,
340
; dubbed by Churchill “Lord Root of the Matter,”
60
; in England, as F.D.R.’s emissary,
73
,
112
,
221
,
230-231
,
236
,
244
; extols “open door” policy in China,
375
; favors inclusion of “freedom of religion” clause in Declaration of Allied Unity,
183
; favors naval escort for merchant ships,
101
; favors postwar security organization,
359
; friendship with F.D.R.,
62
; at Hyde Park,
3
,
8
,
199
,
392
; ill-health,
60
,
73
,
74
,
112
,
392
,
447
.
451
,
453
,
479
,
495
,
579
; influence on F.D.R.,
60-61
; as a liberal and internationalist,
59
; liked by F.D.R.,
60-61
; at meeting with Farouk, Haile Selassie, and Ibn Saud,
578
; meetings with Churchill,
73
,
126
,
129
,
178
,
179
,
182
,
187
,
190
,
221
,
230-231
,
236
; meeting with Stalin,
113-114
,
189
; opinion of F.D.R.,
50
,
608
; opinion of Stalin,
189
; prompts F.D.R. to reshuffle research agencies,
344
; put in charge of Lend-Lease,
61
,
114
; reports from London on need for ships,
244
; rooms of, in White House,
58
,
178
; F.D.R. plans fishing retreat for himself and,
143
; F.D.R. writes to, from Hobcaw,
450
; on F.D.R.’s evolvement of Lend-Lease program,
25
; in Russia,
112-114
,
127
,
189
; sees necessity of including Russia and China in four-power organization,
238
; sensitive to F.D.R.’s moods,
60
; at Shangri-La,
291
; speech writer for F.D.R.,
140
; studies production needs for defense,
133
; suggests setting for F.D.R.’s Bremerton speech,
508
; uncertain on advisability of aid to Britain,
91
; urges suppression of reports of F.D.R.’s ill-health,
507
; at White House conferences with Churchill and F.D.R.,
178
,
179
,
182
,
187
,
190
,
368
; at Yalta Conference,
565
,
567
,
578
,
579