Roosevelt (128 page)

Bonhomme Richard
(French warship),
481

Bonomi, Ivanoe,
537

Borneo,
20
,
202
,
209
,
592

Bose, Subhas Chandra,
219

Boston,
528
,
529

Bougainville,
284
,
382

Bowles, Chester,
350

Boy Scouts,
467

Bradley, Omar,
474
,
475
,
560

Brady, Dorothy,
33

Brazil,
57
,
324

Bremen,
445
,
519
,
595

Bremerhaven,
519

Bremerton,
269
,
490
,
508-509
,
521

Brenner Pass,
330

Brest-Litovsk,
483

Bretton Woods meeting,
514

Bricker, John W.,
502

Bridges, Sir Edward,
565

Bridges, Harry,
217

Briggs, Lyman J.,
250

Brindisi,
394

Brisbane,
176

British Empire,
129
,
131
; Churchill and,
379
,
573
,
592
. See
also
Great Britain

Brittany,
482

Brogan, D. W.,
469

Brooke, Alan,
75
,
182
,
231
,
235
,
311
,
312
,
317
,
319
,
368
,
407

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
123
,
264

Browder, Earl,
525
,
529

Brown, Prentiss M.,
340

Bruenn, Howard G.,
448-449
,
449-450
,
507
,
508
,
533
,
573
,
574
,
584
,
595
,
600

Bruner, Jerome,
467

Buchan, John,
611

Buck, Pearl,
381

Budapest,
565

Budget: (1941),
121
; (1942),
192
; (1943),
306-307
; (1944),
460
; (1945/6),
560

Bukovina,
15

Bulgaria,
68
,
71
,
73
,
94
,
537
,
554

Bulge, Battle of the,
554
,
560
,
565

Bull Moose reform,
7
,
39
,
47

Bullitt, William C,
91
,
350
,
399

Bundy, Harvey,
189
,
266
,
591

Bundy, McGeorge,
266

Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
316

Bureau of Labor Statistics,
460

Bureau of Ships,
244

Bureau of the Budget.
247
,
353
,
452

Burma,
20
,
182
,
186
,
201
,
202
,
203
,
205
,
218
,
229
,
240
,
242
,
267
,
315
,
375
,
376
,
377
,
381
,
383
,
404
,
443
,
444
,
445
,
446
,
541
,
544
,
591
,
593

Burma Road,
186
,
205

Burton, Harold H.,
426

Bush, Vannevar,
251
,
344
,
345
,
350
,
456
,
457
,
464
,
591

Business Advisory Council, Commerce Department,
177

Butler, Nicholas Murray,
37

Buzon,
207

“Buzzie.”
See
Dall, Curtis, Jr.

Byelorussia,
483

Byrd, Harry,
49
,
421
,
426
,
506
,
562

Byrnes, James F.: appointment of, as Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization,
262
,
339
; birthday party for,
337
; combines with Senator Byrd to give Congress control over Lend-Lease appropriations,
49
; cuts appropriation for Senate Special Committee to Investigate the Defense Program,
119
; Democratic Senator from South Carolina,
40
; dubbed “Assistant President” by the press,
340
; favors having public-relations man on staff,
452
; head of Office of War Mobilization,
350
,
354
; helps prepare F.D.R.’s fireside chat on mine strike,
336
; and John L. Lewis,
337
; mediator between Wallace and Jones,
342
; member of Foreign Relations Committee,
48
: and National Railway Labor Panel Chairman,
338
; not informed of F.D.R.’s proposal for national-service bill,
432
; offers his resignation,
432
; prods Attorney General to seize Montgomery Ward plant,
455
; proposes new Office of War Mobilization,
340
; replacement for Hopkins on domestic matters,
447
; reports on shipping problems,
560
; role of, in choice of 1944 candidate for Vice President,
503-504
,
505-506
,
509
; sets up War Mobilization Committee,
451
; and Harold Smith,
452
; suggested by Frances Perkins as her successor,
561
; suggests Vinson to succeed him as Economic Stabilizer,
340
; and tax policy,
363
,
364
,
434
,
436
,
437
,
561
; and union disputes,
336
,
337
,
338
,
341
; at White House correspondents’ dinner,
594
; at Yalta Conference,
565
,
568
,
573

Byron, Lord, quoted,
184

Cabinet: Great Britain,
10-11
; U.S. (1940),
23-24
, (1941),
39-40

Cadogan, Sir Alexander,
565

Caen,
477

Cairo,
236
,
237
,
406

Cairo Conference, first,
389
,
402-405
,
415
,
544
; second,
389
,
414-416
,
443
,
445

Calabria,
438

Calcutta,
381

California,
176
,
214
,
215
,
216
,
226
,
267
,
463
,
473
,
507

Cameroons,
397

Camp Pendleton,
270

Camp Shelby,
270

Campobello,
143

Campus strife,
466

Canada,
100
,
104
,
185
,
457
,
474
,
477
,
482
,
595

Canary Islands,
127

Canterbury, Archbishop of,
271

Canton,
541

Cantril, Hadley,
112
,
280
,
281
,
290
,
559
,
583

Cape Verde Islands,
180

Capra, Frank,
471

Caribbean,
24
,
99
,
243

Carpathians,
557

Carthage,
403

Casablanca,
179
,
285
,
289
,
290
,
292
,
293
,
379
,
480

Casablanca Conference,
308
,
314-321
,
322-325
,
367
,
368
,
370
,
381
,
389
,
456

Caspian Sea,
308
,
406

Cassino,
438
,
439

Casualties, Allied,
546
; German,
554

Catapults,
493

Catledge, Turner,
453

Caucasus,
143
,
173
.
187
,
228
,
233
,
237
,
248
,
300
,
308
,
310
,
313

Cavite naval base,
175

Celebes, the,
202

Central America,
147
. See
also
Latin America

Ceylon,
222

Chamberlain, Neville,
11
,
391

Chandler, Douglas,
498

Channel Islands,
308

Charlottesville, Va.,
475
,
491

Chennault, Claire L.,
83
,
242
,
376
,
377
,
445
,
485
,
541
,
544
,
545

Cherable Islands,
24

Cherbourg,
477

Cherwell, Lord,
456

Chetniks,
272

Chiang Kai-shek: air adviser to,
376
; Axis unity calculated to put pressure on, for settlement with Japan,
19
,
79
,
81
; at Cairo Conference,
389
,
399
,
402
,
403-405
,
592
; Chief of Staff to,
242
,
541
,
588
; commends surrender of British and American extraterri­torial rights in China,
375
; corre­spondence of, with F.D.R. re India,
240-242
; deemed ineffective by U.S. Foreign Service,
589
; description of,
82
,
403
; emissary from F.D.R. to,
82-83
,
542
; home of,
82
; Hopkins on,
238
; and Japanese-American détente,
145
,
156
; and military operation in the Andamans,
414-415
; mourns F.D.R.,
601
: not present at second Cairo Conference,
414
; offers Chinese resources to the British,
205
; offers proposal for recognition of Chinese Communists,
589
; persuaded to allow American visit to Chinese Communists,
542
; problems of, cari­cature Stalin’s,
374
; refuses to reform his government,
543
,
544
,
545
,
576
,
589
; requests F.D.R. to freeze Chinese assets in the U.S.,
109
; F.D.R. discusses, with Stalin,
407
; F.D.R. favors giving aid to,
82
,
186
,
378
,
414-415
,
541
,
590
; F.D.R. to consult, on Russian ports in the Far East,
574
,
577
; and Stilwell,
242
,
375
,
376
,
377
,
378
,
541
,
542
,
543-544
; supreme commander of Allied forces in his theater of operation,
186
; suspects British of filching supplies promised to China,
205
; sympathetic to Indian nationalists,
239-240
; urged by F.D.R. to convene conference for joint planning in the Far East,
188
; wants massive arms aid and seat in strategic councils,
186
.
See also
China

Chiang Kai-shek, Madame,
82
,
145
,
376-377
,
378
,
403-404

Chicago,
48
,
275
,
455
,
462
,
500
,
525
,
527
,
534

Chicago convention: Democratic (1932),
316
,
497
,
508
, (1944),
488
,
504-507
; Republican (1944),
502

Chicago
Daily News
,
39

Chicago
Defender
,
463

Chicago
Tribune
,
22
,
39
,
45
,
111
,
132
,
151
,
212
,
499
,
528

Childe Harold
(Byron),
184

Childs, Marquis,
273
,
453

Chile,
57

China,
212
,
325
,
337
,
444
; aid to,
20
,
79
,
81
,
82-83
,
98
.
110
,
145
,
153
,
156
,
186
,
242
,
317
,
323
,
325
,
374
,
376
,
378
,
415
,
422
,
445
,
541
,
544
,
549
,
589
,
590
; assets in U.S. frozen,
109
; and Churchill,
156
,
204-205
,
416
,
541
,
543
,
590
; Communism in,
82
,
374
,
381
,
542-545
,
558
,
588-589
; corrup­tion and lethargy of government,
381
,
589
; counteroffensive through, planned,
443
; as a divisive factor in allied strategy,
204-205
; domestic sit­uation in,
242
,
374-375
; economic reforms in,
549
; and the Four Free­doms,
611
; and Gandhi,
240
; and Great Britain,
79
,
204-205
,
375
; and Hong Kong,
575
; importance of pre­serving a free and democratic,
576-577
; independence of,
588
; and India,
239-241
,
242
,
375
; and Indo­china,
108
,
135
,
156
,
157
,
158
,
160
,
376
,
592
; and Japan,
19
,
20
,
78
,
79
,
81-83
,
106
,
107
,
110
,
128
,
135
,
136
,
137-138
,
144
,
145
,
146
,
147
,
150
,
155
,
156
,
157-158
,
160
,
201
,
203
,
375
,
404
,
415
,
541
,
542
,
543
,
544
,
545
,
589
; and Manchuria,
19
,
20
,
79
,
545
,
574
,
576
,
577
; as member of Executive Coun­cil of the U.N.,
515
; military defense of,
87
,
375-376
,
377-378
,
407
,
485
,
518
,
540
,
542
; not admitted as mem­ber of MAB,
247
; not represented on the Combined Chiefs of Staff,
186
; as one of the Big Four,
404
,
409
,
544
; postwar revolution projected,
366
; puppet government for, set up by Japanese,
82
; revolution in,
551
; and F.D.R.,
82-83
,
109
,
145
,
159
,
186
,
204-205
,
238
,
374-378
,
407
,
541-545
,
546
,
549
,
574
,
576-577
,
588-590
,
592
,
609
; and Russia,
79
,
81
,
83
,
576-577
,
589
; as signatory to Declaration of Allied Unity,
185
; as signatory to declaration on postwar security,
401
; South China as a base of military operations,
201
,
376
,
445
; and Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact,
83
; Stalin’s estimate of military leadership of,
407
; and the U.S.,
79
,
82-83
,
109
,
145
,
159
,
186
,
188
,
205
,
238
,
239
,
240-243
,
317
,
374-378
,
403-405
,
407
,
414-415
,
541-545
,
546
,
549
,
576-577
,
588-590
,
592
; weariness of Chiang’s armies,
106
. See
also
Chiang Kai-shek ; Flying Tigers