Roosevelt (134 page)

Hopkins, William,
451

Hornet
, U.S.S.,
224
,
226

House of Representatives: and the Office of War Information,
385
; and the price-control bill,
196-197
; and the soldiers’-vote bill,
431
; special investigating committee of,
455
.
See also
Banking and Currency Committee; Congress; Dies Committee; Foreign Affairs Committee; Labor Com­mittee: Rules Committee; Tolan Committee; Ways and Means Committee

Housing,
54
,
355
,
466

Howard, Roy,
212

How New Will the Belter World Be?
(Becker),
516

Hudson River,
3
,
4
,
22
,
92
,
530
,
610
,
611
,
612

Hughes, Charles Evans,
37
,
122
,
534

Hull, Cordell: advocate of free world trade,
39
,
107
; allowed by F.D.R. to stall the Japanese,
144-145
; asked by F.D.R. to postpone publication of Wilson notes,
428
; atomic project kept secret from,
456
; attitude of, toward Japan,
107
,
136
,
144
,
145
,
150
; character,
23
; consulted on possibil­ity of Axis attack on U.S.,
86
; criti­cism of Darlan policy aimed at,
286
; criticized for cautiousness,
65
; declines role as F.D.R.’s running mate in 1944,
504
; dubbed “gallant old eagle” by Churchill,
400
; favors re­lease of interned Japanese-Americans,
464
; foresees danger of spheres of interest in postwar Europe,
483
; and the
Greer
incident,
139
; ill-health,
107
; informed of Japanese attack,
162-163
; informed of F.D.R.’s pres­tige in India,
221
; international diplomacy deplored by,
551
; as an internationalist,
40
; meeting with Churchill,
179
,
184
; meeting with Eden,
364-366
; meeting with Molotov,
232
; meetings with Russian Am­bassador Oumansky,
102
; mission to Moscow,
400-401
; negotiations of, with Japanese Ambassador,
89
,
107-109
,
134-136
,
144-146
,
157-158
,
162-163
; notes on F.D.R.’s insistence on necessity for unity of command in Europe,
381
; notes F.D.R.’s liking for title of Commander in Chief,
490
; as one of F.D.R.’s “assistant presidents,”
452
; opinion of Matsuoka,
21
; op­posed to shifting Pacific fleet units,
89-90
,
92
,
99
; plans for postwar se­curity,
359
427
,
429
,
516
,
539
; plays down likelihood of war,
48
; political influence of,
23
; presses for nondiscriminatory postwar economic poli­cies,
129
; public disaffection with,
286
,
467
; repudiates charge of being “anti-Russian,”
398
; resents retention of Welles as Undersecretary,
350
; re­tirement of,
552
; F.D.R. defines un­conditional surrender principle to, re Germany,
441
; at F.D.R.’s 1940 address on national security,
27
; F.D.R.’s note to, outlining proposals for Japanese truce pact,
156
; Secre­tary of State,
23
; sends coded message to F.D.R. on Stalin’s willingness to fight Japan,
401
; as spokesman for the South,
39
; takes Willkie to see F.D.R.,
43
; telephones F.D.R. about imminent Japanese attack,
158
; testimony of, on Lend-Lease bill par­tially written by F.D.R.,
45
; threatens to resign,
184
; on treatment of Germany after surrender,
519
,
520
,
521
; urges F.D.R. to include review of Japanese-American relations in war message,
164
; urges strong mea­sures against labor agitators,
117
; worries about isolationists on issue of postwar organization,
359

Hungary,
365
,
518
,
537

Hurley, Patrick J.,
542
,
543
,
544
,
588-590
,
591
,
592

Hu Shih, Dr.,
156
,
271

Hyde Park,
3-9
,
58
,
143
,
199-201
,
224
,
235
,
253
,
260
,
280
,
299
,
300
,
302
,
389
,
390
,
392
,
394
,
436
,
437
,
450
,
458
,
503
,
505
,
521
,
550
,
559
,
604
,
606
,
607
,
612
; Christmas at,
416-417
,
554

Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia,
339
,
578-579

Iceland,
104-105
,
127
,
139
,
140
,
141
,
142
,
147
,
368

Ickes, Harold L.: advocates American intervention in the Atlantic,
65
,
90-91
,
99
,
105
; advocates forceful action against Japan,
23
,
107
,
109
,
114-115
,
159
; advocates tackling discrimination on a national scale,
462
; attacks “lords of the press” for their hatred of F.D.R.,
421
; battles with col­leagues,
23
,
65
,
562
; bickers with War Labor Board over mine strikes,
337
; character,
23
; at Democratic convention of 1944,
505
,
506
; dis­cusses future government of Pacific islands,
560
; favors releasing in­terned Japanese-Americans,
464
; fa­vors support of China,
159
; fishing companion of F.D.R.,
23
,
60
; has jurisdiction of War Relocation Au­thority,
464
; irked by F.D.R.’s aloof­ness in election campaign,
509
; lib­eralism of,
40
; maneuvers for trans­fer of Forest Service to the Interior,
23
,
62
,
143
; objects to F.D.R.’s re­shuffling of research agencies,
344
; opinion of Hopkins,
60
; ordered by F.D.R. to repossess striking mines,
337
; potential ally of Attorney Gen­eral Biddle,
215
; representative of Bull Moose reform,
39
; F.D.R. ap­praises Japan’s position in July 1941 in letter to,
108
; F.D.R. considers ap­pointment of, as Secretary of Labor,
334
; F.D.R. writes to, on designation for his Hyde Park property,
390
; Secretary of the Interior,
23
; Solid Fuels Administrator,
337
; threatens to bring his own food as lunch guest of F.D.R.,
299
; unpopularity of,
301
; at White House correspondents’ din­ner,
594

I’d Rather Be Right
(play),
33

Idaho,
269

Illinois River,
473

Immigration laws,
396

Imphal Plain,
541

Income, rise in,
355
,
460

Income tax.
See
Taxation

India: Chiang Kai-shek’s message to F.D.R. re,
240-242
; and China,
239-241
,
242
,
375
; Eisenhower sees Euro­pean offensive as necessary to save,
229
; Gandhi’s appeal to F.D.R.,
239
; Germany’s plan to push through to,
308
; and Great Britain,
79
,
219-222
,
231
,
238-239
,
240-242
,
375
,
379-381
,
422
,
549
; Hitler’s offer of, to Russia,
17
,
68
; and Japan,
20
,
201
,
202
,
209
,
219
,
220
,
221
,
222
,
225
,
229
,
231
,
239
,
240
,
242
,
308
,
541
; not included in Combined Chiefs of Staff,
186
; reac­tion in, to F.D.R.’s death,
611
; F.D.R. and Stalin discuss,
407
; as signatory of Declaration of Allied Unity,
184
,
185
; and the U.S.,
184
,
219-222
,
229
,
231
,
239-240
,
240-242
,
379-381
,
422
,
541
,
549
,
593
,
608
,
609

India League of America,
381

Indian Ocean,
12
,
77
,
94
,
176

Indochina: and China,
108
,
135
,
156
,
157
,
158
,
160
,
376
,
592
; and de Gaulle,
591
,
592
,
593
; and France,
20
,
78
,
106
,
109
,
379
,
591
,
592
; and Great Britain,
128
,
592
,
593
; independence of,
591-592
; and Japan,
13
,
20
,
78
,
108
,
109
,
110
,
127
,
128
,
135
,
136
,
138
,
144
,
155
,
156
,
157
,
158
,
160
,
161
,
379
,
381
; nationalist feeling against the West intensified in,
381
; and F.D.R.,
127
,
135
,
156
,
157
,
158
,
160
,
161
,
379
,
407
,
591-592
,
593
; F.D.R. and Stalin discuss,
407
,
591
,
592
; Stilwell’s proposed offensive to open,
376
; and the U.S.,
109
,
110
,
127
,
136
,
144
,
156
,
157
,
160
,
376

Indonesia,
381
,
593

“Industrial-military complex,”
189

Inflation,
256
,
259
,
260
,
261
,
282
,
340

Inland Sea,
159
,
486
,
540

Inönü, Ismet,
414

Intellectuals, and world peace,
515-516

Intelligence,
73
,
294
,
440
,
519
; Japanesecode broken,
226

Interior, Department of,
143

Interventionism,
41
,
42
,
43
,
48
,
99
,
111
,
112
,
142
,
149
,
280

Invasion: of Great Britain, threatened,
10
,
14
,
15
,
19
,
33
,
45
,
64
,
73
,
79
; of the U.S., feared,
45

Iowa
, U.S.S.,
402-403
,
416

Iquitos, Peru,
57

Iran,
153
,
308
,
422

Isle of Wight,
475

Ismay, Sir Hastings L.,
11
,
73
,
235
,
368
,
407

Isolationism,
5
,
6
,
11
,
37
,
41-42
,
43
,
44
,
46
,
47
,
49
,
56
,
84
,
98
,
111
,
120
,
131
.
132
,
142
,
148
,
151
,
159
,
165
,
168
,
177
,
201
,
210
,
211
,
213
,
274
,
275
,
280
,
359
,
400
,
422
,
426
,
499
,
500
,
516
,
526
,
528
.
532
,
543
,
583

Istrian Peninsula,
479
,
519

Italian-Americans, treatment of, in World War II,
268
.
See also
Aliens

Italy: campaign in,
369
,
370
,
393-395
,
407
,
438-439
,
440
,
478
,
479
,
484
,
489
,
518
,
519
,
545
,
546
,
560
; Churchill and F.D.R. dispute over.
537-538
; Churchill regrets that Allied forces in, denied chance to reach Vienna before Russians,
480
; Communism in,
391-392
,
586
; German aid to,
80
,
391
,
394
; German occupation of,
393
; German resistance in Africa prevents Allied landing in,
330
; German sup­plies for Africa deployed through,
326
; Germans ready to take over,
392
; government crisis in,
383
,
537-538
; Grand Council,
383
; Great Britain disappointed that no attack on, planned at Casablanca Confer­ence,
319
; Great Britain in favor of strong offensive against,
315
,
318
,
369
,
393
; Great Britain interested in political arrangements for,
401
; Hit­ler orders attack on,
394
; invades Greece,
14-15
; invades southern France,
295
; invasion of Sicily,
381
,
383
; and Libya,
64
; and North Africa,
80
; plans to eliminate,
86
,
370
; projected power on the African Mediterranean coast,
16
; puts out peace feelers to Spain and Portugal,
393
; Red Army operations on East­ern Front help Allied operations in,
483
; refugees from,
442
; F.D.R. fears anarchy in,
391
; F.D.R. reluc­tant to commit large armies in,
368-369
; F.D.R.’s assessment of aims,
6
; secret negotiations on German sur­render,
585-586
; as signatory of the Tripartite Pact,
16
,
20-21
,
69
; Stalin advises against attacking Germany through,
408
; Stalin resents being left out of negotiations with,
399
; as strategic imponderable,
314
; sur­renders,
394
; and unconditional sur­render,
323
,
384
,
390
,
391
; U.S. declares war on,
175
.
See also
Badoglio. Pietro; Mussolini, Benito; Rome; Tripartite Pact