Roosevelt (130 page)

Committee of One Million,
41-42

Committee to Defend America by Aid­ing the Allies,
41
,
48
,
112

Committees, Congressional.
See

Appropriations; Banking and Currency; Dies; Education and Labor; Finance; Foreign Affairs; Foreign Relations; Labor; Migration; Military Affairs Subcommittee; Naval Affairs; Rules; Special Committee to Investigate the Defense Program (Truman); Tolan; Ways and Means Commodity Credit Corporation,
600

Communism: in China,
82
,
374
,
381
,
542-545
,
558
,
588-589
; in Eastern Europe,
572
; fear of spread into Japan,
558-559
; in Greece,
538
,
539
; in Italy,
391-392
;
586
: in U.S.,
525
,
528-529
; and the West,
537

Compton, Karl T.,
251
,
259

Conant, James B.,
251
,
252
,
259
,
344
,
350

“Concentration camps” for Japanese-Americans.
213
,
267
,
421
,
461

Conferences.
See
ARCADIA;
Argentina; Bretton Woods; Cairo: Casablanca: Dumbarton Oaks: Honolulu; Quebec; San Francisco; Teheran; Yalta

Congress: agricultural lobby in, 1973

appropriations by, for war production,
246
; asked to grant greatest possible measure of self-government to Puerto Rico,
378
; asked to repeal Chinese exclusion laws,
375
; Churchill’s address to,
416
; coalition government,
36-43
,
532-533
,
594
; Committee chairmen,
40
; conflict in,
106
,
421
; conservative members of, attempt to limit strikes,
56
; cuts weapons-research appropriations,
343
; difficulty of explaining technical mat­ters to,
98
; and the economic stabili­zation program,
197
,
258
,
260-262
,
424
; election of 1942,
273-281
,
301
,
527
; election of 1944,
400
,
429
,
532-533
; establishes Rubber Supply Agency,
259
; extends draft,
120
,
142
,
246
; investigations by, of subversive activities,
594
; and Lend-Lease,
25
,
29
,
43-50
; modification of immigration laws by, deemed difficult,
396
; more help for China urged by Sena­tors in,
376
; and national-service legislation,
432-433
,
560
,
593
; and neutrality revision,
101
,
142
,
148
; and the Office of War Information,
385
; passes Bankhead bill,
340-341
; power holders of,
40
,
426-427
,
437
; prewar connections between pro-Nazis and right-wing members of,
211
; reception of Madame Chiang Kai-shek,
376
; relations with F.D.R.,
120
,
197
,
246
,
301
,
305
,
307
,
331
,
332
,
362
,
426
,
427
,
430
,
431
,
434
,
435
,
436
,
437
,
510
,
594
; F.D.R. courts support of, for foreign policy,
594
; F.D.R.’s address to, asking for declaration of war against Japan,
165-167
; F.D.R.’s address to, on Yalta Conference,
581-582
; F.D.R.’s meetings with leaders of,
61
,
433
; secrecy maintained in appropriations by, for atomic project,
456
; and soldiers’-vote legislation,
430-431
; supports F.D.R.’s order for evacuation of Japanese-Americans,
216
; supports war-veterans’ measures,
362
; and taxation,
256-257
,
259
,
260
,
262
,
307
,
363
,
364
,
433-437
,
510
; terminates F.D.R.’s authority to limit salaries,
362
,
363
; variety of elements in,
43
; votes for war against Ger­many and Italy,
175
; votes for war against Japan,
171
; and world-security organization,
427-428
.
See also
Committees, Congressional; House of Representatives; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
oratory:
State of the Union messages; Senate

Congressional Medal of Honor award,
209
,
261

Connally, Tom,
47
,
119
,
164
,
436

Connally resolution,
428

Connor, Eugene (“Bull”),
265

Conventions: Democratic,
277
,
316
,
488
,
497
,
504-507
,
508-511
,
525
; Republican,
275
,
501
,
502
,
510
,
511

Convoys: American naval escort for British,
26
,
87
,
89
,
98
,
104
,
105
,
127
,
141
; to Great Britain,
38
,
45
,
57
,
86
,
89
,
98
,
111
,
493
; to Iceland,
141
,
142
; PQ-18,
310
; to Russia,
233
,
308
,
310
, suspended,
237
,
288
,
310
,
313
,
327-328
,
367
,
372

Co-Prosperity Sphere.
See
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Coral Sea, Battle of the,
225
,
261

Corcoran, Thomas,
62

Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army,
251

Corregidor,
207
,
209
,
226

Corsica,
295
,
311

Costa Rica,
185

Cotentin Peninsula,
473
,
474
,
475
,
477

Coughlin, Father Charles,
211

Council of People’s Commissars,
95

Courts-martial,
493

Cowles, Gardner,
513

Cox, Eugene,
119

Cox, James M.,
356
,
512

Cox, Oscar,
351
,
465

Coy, Wayne,
115
,
452

Cracow,
536

Craig, May,
172
,
553

Crete,
15
,
76
,
77
,
204

Crimea,
232
,
237
,
558
,
564
,
566
,
579
,
582
; conference in,
see
Yalta Con­ference

Cripps, Sir Stafford,
102
,
113
,
220
,
221
,
238
,
240

Cross-channel invasion.
See
Second front Crossman, Richard,
385

Crowley, Leo T.,
342

Cryptostegia (rubber project),
341

Cuba,
185

Culture, wartime,
466-472

Cunningham, Sir Andrew,
319
,
407

Curacao,
450
,
451

Currie, Lauchlin,
83
,
242
,
377
,
451

Curtin, John,
204

Cuzon, Lord,
571

Curzon Line,
187
,
536
,
570
,
571

Cyprus,
565

Cyrenaica,
285

Czechoslovakia,
15
,
185
,
474
,
483

D day: (Europe) June 6, 1944,
473-477
,
481
,
484
; (Pacific) February 19, 1945,
588

Dairen,
574
,
577

Dakar,
10
,
13
,
289
,
291

Dall, Curtis, Jr. (“Buzzie”) (grandson of F.D.R.),
269
,
389
,
447

Dall, Eleanor (“Sistie”) (granddaugh­ter of F.D.R.),
269
,
389
,
447

Daniels, Jonathan,
432
,
451
,
562

Daniels, Josephus,
62
,
300
,
596

Danube River,
301

Danzig,
565
,
582

Dardanelles,
16
,
94
,
181

Darlan, Jean-Francois,
109
,
285
,
286
,
288
,
291
,
293
,
294-298
,
300
,
319-320
,
391
,
422
,
538
,
548
,
608

Davies, Joseph E.,
102
,
112
,
368
,
371

Davis, Elmer,
213
,
267
,
268
,
296
,
350
,
385

Davis, James J.,
532

Davis, John W.,
356

Davis, William H.,
195
,
196
,
264

Dead Sea,
406

Declaration of Allied Unity,
183-185

Declaration of war by the U.S.: on Germany and Italy,
175
; on Japan,
165-167
,
171

Declaration on Liberated Europe,
572

Defense Mediation Board,
192

Defense spending.
See
Budget

De Gaulle, Charles: character of,
286
,
319
,
320
; and the Darlan deal,
287
,
291
,
295-296
,
319-323
; declines F.D.R.’s invitation to meet him in Algiers,
579
; head of the Free French in London,
286
; and Indochina,
591
,
593
; invited to England for D day,
481
; kept out of negotiations with Vichy Frenchmen,
287
,
291
; meeting with Giraud,
320-323
,
389
: meetings with F.D.R.,
320-323
,
389
,
480
,
481
,
482
,
592
; meeting with Stalin,
566
; opinion of F.D.R.,
482
; re-enters Paris,
482
; relations with Churchill,
295-296
,
320-323
,
481-482
; relations with F.D.R.,
287
,
320-323
,
480-481
,
482
,
566
,
579
,
591
,
592-604
; relieves Giraud of com­mand,
480
; Stalin’s opinion of,
407
; symbol of French resistance,
319
; trip to Washington, D.C.,
481
,
482
; un­authorized occupation of French islands off Newfoundland by,
184

Delano, Laura,
599
,
600

Delano, Warren,
379

Del Vayo, Alvarez,
391

Democratic National Committee,
290
,
503
; Chairman of,
176
,
276
,
503

Democratic party: Cabinet of 1941 re­flects

main elements of,
39-40
; coali­tion of liberals of, with Republican liberals,
274
,
275-276
,
279
,
280
,
511-512
,
513
,
524
,
608
; coalition of Re­publicans with Southern and con­servative members of,
37
,
40
,
305
,
534
; collaboration of, with Re­publican party in Congress,
594
; con­gressional campaign committee of,
276
; convention of, (1932),
316
,
497
,
508
, (1944),
277
,
488
,
504-507
,
511
,
525
; congressional,
275
,
280
,
503
,
510
,
524
,
534
,
594
; declared by F.D.R. to be the “party of sound money,”
528
; defections from F.D.R.,
497
,
503
,
510
; division of, into two elements,
37
,
510
,
511
; divisiveness in,
276-277
,
503
,
510
,
511
,
525
; of Dutchess County,
279
,
299
,
524
; election of 1910,
4
; election of 1920,
4
,
512
; elec­tion of 1940,
3-4
,
5-7
,
33
,
36
; elec­tion of 1942,
274-281
,
301
; election of 1944,
497-498
,
500-516
,
521-534
; fund-raising banquets of,
273
; in Massachusetts,
503
; members of, as dollar-a-year men,
88
; National Chairman of,
176
,
276
,
503
; in New York State.
277
; presidential,
274
,
276
,
281
,
499
,
510
; setbacks of, due to fall-off in voter participation,
524-525
; shift of urban vote to,
40
; Southern,
36-37
,
40
,
305
,
421
,
427
,
431
,
437
,
506
,
510
,
511
,
524
; of Virginia,
426
; under F.D.R.,
7
,
36-37
,
513
.
See also
Congress; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano