Roosevelt (133 page)

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

Greenland,
57
,
88

Greer
, U.S.S.,
139
,
140
,
147

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

Groton,
4
,
6-7
,
604

Ground Controlled Approach system,
346

Groves, Leslie R.,
456
,
558

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

Gustav Line.
438
,
439

GYMNAST,
179-181

Haakon, King of Norway,
62

Hackmeister, Louise (“Hackie”),
200

Hague, Frank,
276

Hahn, Otto,
249

Haile Selassie,
578
,
579

Hainan,
78

Haiti,
57
,
185
,
316
,
341

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

Hangö,
365
,
412

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

Hershey, Lewis B.,
337
,
463
,
528

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

Himmler, Heinrich,
70
,
72
,
554

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

Homma, Masaharu,
202
,
206

Honan,
541

Honduras,
185

Hong Kong,
79
,
149
,
165
,
175
,
201
,
203
,
404
,
575

Honolulu,
161
,
162
,
166
,
507

Honolulu Conference,
488-489
,
490
,
496
,
507

Honshu,
590

Hood
, H.M.S.,
99

Hoover, Herbert,
38
,
111
,
356
,
426
,
528
,
542

Hoover, J. Edgar,
217
,
463

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