Roosevelt (142 page)

Saar,
520

Sabath, Adolph J.,
40

Saboteurs, German, electrocution of,
217
,
255

Sachs, Alexander,
249-250
,
550

Saigon,
13
,
175

Saint-Lô,
482

St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
,
453

St. Pierre,
184

Saint-Tropez, Gulf of,
480

Saint-Vith,
554

Saipan,
486
,
487
,
496
,
540

Sakhalin,
81
,
574

Saki airport,
564
,
565

Salaries, limitation of.
See
Wage con­trol

Salazar, Antonio,
352
,
353

Salerno,
394

Samoa,
182
,
283

San Bernadino Strait,
540

San Diego, Calif.,
222
,
270
,
488
,
496
,
498
,
506
,
507
,
508
,
509
,
521

San Francisco
Chronicle
,
214

San Francisco Conference,
582
,
583
,
584
,
585
,
587
,
590
,
592
,
594

Sandburg, Carl,
62
,
107

Santa Barbara, Calif.,
213
,
214

Saratoga
, U.S.S.,
222
,
588

Sardinia,
305
,
311
,
312

Sarnoff, David,
264

Saudi Arabia,
397

Sayre, Francis,
62
,
207

Scharnhorst
(German battle cruiser),
89
,
327

Schweinfurt,
445

Scientific research,
343-347

Scott, John,
272

SCR-594 ground radar,
345

Sea of Japan,
224

Sea power,
12-13
. See
also
Navy, U.S.; Royal Navy

Seattle, Wash.,
226
,
269
,
347

II Corps (U.S. Army),
326
,
329

Second front (cross-channel invasion): Churchill and,
230-231
,
234
,
235-236
,
238
,
285-286
,
325
,
367
,
369
,
392
,
408
,
438
; contingent upon transportation,
326
; crisis in U.S.-Soviet relations over,
372-374
; discussed at Casa­blanca Conference,
315-319
; Korneichuk on the postponement of,
399
; Marshall fears the North African operation will delay,
287
; plans for,
229-238
,
369-370
,
407-412
,
414
; postponements of,
236-237
,
285-286
,
312
,
325
,
328
,
367
,
370-374
,
399
,
548
,
549
,
608
; F.D.R. and,
392-393
,
548
,
549
,
608
; F.D.R.s comment on,
300
; F.D.R. pledges,
233
; the Russian people and,
484
; set­tled at Teheran Conference,
407-412
,
414
; Stalin calls for,
153
,
187
,
188
,
229
,
233
,
242
,
310-311
,
313
,
314
,
315
,
325
,
327
; Stalin informed of postpone­ments,
236-237
,
370-371
; Stalin waits for,
446
; Willkie as a supporter of,
275
,
279
,
283
.
See also
OVERLORD

Sedition trials,
453-454
.
See also
Saboteurs; Subversive activities

Segregation.
See
Black Americans

Seine, Bay of the,
473

Selective Service.
See
Draft

Selective Service Act of 1940,
120

Senate: asked to ratify treaty sur­rendering extraterritorial rights in China,
375
; confirms Secretary of Commerce,
593
; kills aid-to-education bill,
421
; and the Office of War In­formation,
385
; and the price-control bill,
197
,
258
,
262
; rejects head of Rural Electrification,
594
; tax bills prepared by,
363
,
433
; and the United Nations,
517
,
581
. See
also
Banking and Currency Committee; Congress; Education and Labor Subcommittee; Finance Committee; Foreign Rela­tions Committee; Military Affairs Subcommittee; Naval Affairs Com­mittee; Special Committee to In­vestigate the Defense Program

Sengstacke, John,
463

Serbia,
365

Servicemen’s vote bill.
See
Soldiers’-vote bill

Sevastopol,
228
,
237
,
565
,
578

Seventh Army (General Patton),
382

Seventh Fleet,
540

7th Infantry Division (U.S. Army),
489

Sexual equality, move toward,
461

Sforza, Count Carlo,
391
,
537
,
538

“Shall We Have More TVA’s?” (Lilienthal),
562

Shanghai,
19
,
203

“Shangri-La” (camp),
253-255
,
291
,
294
,
383

Sherwood, Robert,
9
,
33
,
50
,
58
,
59
,
99
,
101
,
149
,
213
,
244
,
260
,
297
,
336
,
337
,
383
,
384
,
385
,
415
,
424
,
451
,
529
,
530
,
538
,
607
,
608
,
611

Shimada, Shigetaro,
154

Shipbuilding,
25
,
190
,
191
,
193
,
244-245
,
333
,
334

Shipping: Byrnes reports on problems,
560
; gift to Britain of destroyers,
11
,
13
,
33
; lease of cargo ships,
25
; Liberty ships,
245
,
469
; losses, Allied,
10
,
12
,
65
,
72
,
89
,
100
,
221
,
233
,
237
,
243-245
,
327
,
333
,
549
; F.D.R. re­fuses to divert shipping from military needs,
549
; shortage of,
181
; use of American ports by British warships,
41
,
64
,
88
; Victory ships,
469
.
See also
Navy, U.S.; Royal Navy

Shirer, William L.,
358

Shokaku
(Japanese carrier),
225

Sholto-Douglas, Sir William,
603

“Shoot on sight” policy,
141
,
142
.
See also

Atlantic theater

Shotwell, James T.,
515

Shoumatoff, Elizabeth,
599-600

Siam,
156

Siam, Gulf of,
203

Siberia,
78
,
80
,
97
,
173
,
188
,
189
,
233
,
237

Sibuyan Sea,
540

Sicily,
64
,
74
,
285
,
305
,
311
,
312
,
317
,
319
,
325
,
326
,
328
,
369
,
381
,
382
,
383
,
393
,
416
,
422
,
492

Sikorski, Wladyslaw,
372

Sinai Desert,
406

Sinclair, Upton,
62

Singapore,
13
,
21
,
79
,
80
,
86
,
90
,
149
,
160
,
175
,
180
,
186
,
202
,
203
,
204
,
209
,
216
,
219
,
223
,
240
,
268
,
444
,
540

Singora,
203

“Sistie.”
See
Dall, Eleanor

SLEDGEHAMMER
,
370
,
374

Smedley, Agnes,
381

Smith, Alfred E.,
277
,
348
,
356
,
426
,
497
,
529
,
530
,
602
,
604
,
605

Smith, E. D. (“Cotton Ed”),
427

Smith, Gerald,
528

Smith, Harold,
159
,
257
,
335
,
342
,
348
,
350
,
353
,
421
,
452
,
465

Smith, Howard W.,
331

Smith, Merriman,
269

Smith-Connally bill,
337

Smolensk,
143
,
372

Smuts, Jan Christian,
548
,
609

Social conditions, in the U.S., viii,
53-54
,
465-466

“Social Insurance and Allied Services” (Beveridge Plan),
361

Social Justice
(journal),
211

Social Security,
192
,
361-362
,
364
,
434
,
560

Social Security Act,
362

Sojourner Truth housing project,
466

Soldiers’-vote bill,
421
,
429-431
,
437

Solid Fuels Administrator,
337

Solomon Islands,
182
,
209
,
225
,
255
,
283
,
284
,
285
,
291
,
300
,
314
,
382
,
444

Somervell, Brehon,
246
,
333
,
565

Songs, of the war,
271

Soong, T. V.,
83
,
145
,
184
,
185
,
453

South, the: Democratic party in,
36-37
,
40
,
421
,
427
,
431
,
437
,
506
,
510
,
511
,
524
; Cordell Hull and Jesse Jones as spokesmen for,
39
; and interventionism,
43
; Negroes in,
461
,
462

South Africa,
185

South America,
13
,
147
,
266
.
See also
Latin America

South Sea islands,
390

Southwick House,
474

Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact,
81
,
83
,
94-95

Soviet Union.
See
Russia

Spain: Allied advance in Italy affects,
395
; and Germany,
10
,
14
,
64
,
65
,
179
,
288
,
291
; and Great Britain,
14
,
65
,
77
,
127
; and Italy,
393
; neu­trality of,
313-314
,
397
; Spanish Morocco,
288
; and the U.S.,
65
,
77
,
127
,
397
.
See also
Franco, Francisco

Special Committee to Investigate the Defense Program (Senate).
See
Truman Committee

Spruance, Raymond A.,
226
,
443
,
444
,
487
,
588

Stabilization program.
See
Economic

stabilization program

Stage Door Canteen,
460

Stalin, Joseph: Allied invasion of France urged by,
408
; ambitions in Manchuria,
575
,
577
; anger at Brit­ish suspension of northern convoys,
237
,
310
,
327-328
,
372
; and the atomic bomb,
458
; bargains with Hit­ler,
94
; as a brilliant tactician,
551
; and the British,
566
; cables F.D.R. on Red Army’s new offensive,
483
; calls for advance into the German heartland,
408
; calls for a second front,
153
,
187
,
188
,
229
,
233
,
242
,
310-311
,
313
,
314
,
315
,
325
,
327
; character of,
92
; and China,
407
; on Churchill,
484
,
587
; Churchill pre­sents sword of Stalingrad to,
410
; Churchill tells of cancellation of Sec­ond Front,
236-238
; coldly realistic on the Far East,
188
; as commander in chief,
496
; dissolves the Comin­tern,
367
,
373
; congratulates F.D.R. on his fourth election,
533
; and Sir Stafford Cripps,
102
; approves the Darlan deal,
298
; discusses British politics with Churchill,
577
; doubts about
TORCH,
288
; feels shut out of Anglo-American discussions,
399
; impressed by France’s military weak­ness,
566
; on the French,
408
; on Germany,
408-409
,
410
,
412
; and Greece,
537
,
538
,
583
; on Hitler,
113
,
409
; and Indochina,
591
,
592
; invited by F.D.R. to meet but cables nega­tive reply,
367
,
368
,
373
; invited to Big Three meeting but refuses to attend,
314
,
315
; and the Jews,
577-578
; knows German attack is pos­sible,
95
; learns of F.D.R.’s death,
601
; letter to Churchill on lack of agreement on war and peace aims,
153
; letter to F.D.R. on postpone­ment of the second front,
371-372
; makes himself chairman of the Coun­cil of the People’s Commissars,
95
; May Day, 1944, order,
484
; meetings with Churchill,
236-238
,
537
,
538
,
539
; meeting with de Gaulle,
566
; meeting with Milovan Djilas,
484
; meeting with Hopkins,
113-114
; meeting with Matsuoka,
80
,
81
,
95
; meeting with Mikolajczk,
534
; Munich crisis as viewed by,
93
; and the North African campaign,
327
,
328
,
330
; pleads illness and refuses to leave Russia,
565
; and Poland,
187
,
372
,
412
,
413
,
483
,
534-537
,
569
,
570-573
,
575-576
,
583-584
,
587
; po­litical strategy,
551-552
; postwar de­signs,
238
,
366
; and postwar Soviet security,
551
; proposes secret agree­ment with U.K.,
187
; reaction to the abandonment of
ANVIL,
479
; and
realpolitik
,
92-97
; receives F.D.R.’s note of war plans agreed on at Casa­blanca Conference,
324
; relations with Churchill,
310
,
311
,
412
,
537
,
567
; relations with F.D.R.,
201
,
232
,
313
,
399
,
412
,
416
,
484
,
537
,
566
,
575
,
585-587
,
596
,
603
,
608
; and the Rus­sian winter offensive,
557-558
; and the Russo-Japanese pact,
94-95
; on Russian war aims,
229
; and San Francisco Conference,
584
; as seen by Hitler,
15
,
68-69
,
309
; sense of humor,
189
; and Soviet intervention in Asia,
575
; speech to his people on the German invasion,
97
; suspicions of the West,
371
,
539
,
585-587
; at Teheran Conference,
389
,
406-413
; telegraphs F.D.R. on Italian landings,
394
; tries to appease Germany,
95
; and the U.N.,
566
,
584
,
587
; and un­conditional surrender,
546
; views Oc­tober 1942 as most critical month of the war,
283
; waits for the second front,
446
; withdraws agreement to meet with Roosevelt in Fairbanks,
400
; and Yalta Conference,
558
,
565-580
,
583
,
591
.
See also
Russia