Roosevelt (137 page)

Marshall Islands,
202
,
445

Martha, Crown Princess of Norway,
34
,
125
,
253
,
581

Martin, Joseph W.,
37
,
164
,
390
,
456
,
526

Martinique,
99

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
346

Matsuoka, Yosuke,
18
,
20
,
21
,
79-81
,
83
,
95
,
97
,
108
,
135

Mead, James M.,
277

Mead, Margaret,
272
,
280

Mediation Board.
See
National Defense Mediation Board

Medical Insurance,
364

Mediterranean theater,
15
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16
,
69
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70
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73
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77
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78
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86
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87
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89
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180
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369-370
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382
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404
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410
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411
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414
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439-440
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478
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479
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480
,
518
,
538
,
557

Meiji, Emperor of Japan,
138-139

Mein Kampf
(Hitler),
68
,
70

Melbourne,
209

Mellett, Lowell,
451

Memphis
, U.S.S.,
316
,
324

Mercer, Lucy.
See
Rutherfurd, Mrs. Winthrop

Merchant Marine Act of 1936,
245

Messina, Strait of,
382
,
393

Metallurgical Laboratory (University of Chicago),
251

Mexican-Americans,
265
,
462

Miami,
243
,
316

Michigan, Lake,
473

Microwave Early Warning System,
346

Middle East,
77
,
85
,
89
,
115
,
179
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229
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231
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235
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236
,
313
,
397
,
557

Midway, Battle of,
225-226

Midway Island,
165
,
172
,
175
,
202
,
222
,
225-226
,
231
,
255
,
486

Migration,
355
,
461
,
466

Migration Committee,
339

Mikhailovich, Draja,
272

Mikolajczyk, Stanislaus,
483
,
534
,
535
,
536
,
570
,
572

Military Affairs Subcommittee (Senate),
339

Military-industrial complex,
347
,
466

Military operations.
See
ANVIL
(Southern France); “Barbarossa” (German attack on Russia) ;
GYMNAST
(Northwest Africa) ;
OVERLORD
(Allied invasion of France) ;
ROUNDUP
(cross-channel invasion: abandoned) ;
SLEDGEHAMMER
(pro­jected cross-channel invasion) ;
TORCH
(North Africa)

Mindanao,
207
,
209

Miners,
263
; strikes,
117
,
194
,
195
,
335
,
336-337
.
See also
United Mine Workers

Minsk,
483

Miquelon,
184

Mississippi River,
473

Missouri River,
510
,
528

Mobile, Ala.,
388

Mobilization program,
118

Moley, Raymond,
62

Molotov, Vyacheslav,
16
,
68
,
93
,
94
,
95
,
102
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113
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187
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231-234
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237
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238
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242
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325
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401
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407
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571
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574
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575
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577
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583
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584
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585
,
587

Monetary and financial policy, international,
514

Montecassino.
See
Cassino

Montgomery, Bernard,
291
,
295
,
308
,
311
,
329
,
382
,
394
,
474
,
475
,
477
,
560

Montgomery Ward,
454-455

Moon Is Down, The
(Steinbeck),
271

Moore, Edward H.,
356

Moran, Lord,
183
,
573

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.,
8
,
23
,
25
,
39
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45
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53
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60
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91
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92
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99
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105
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173
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437
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441
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442
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515
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519
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520
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530
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561
,
594

Morison, Samuel Eliot,
225
,
294
,
546

Morocco,
173
,
285
,
286
,
288
,
294
,
322

Morocco, Sultan of,
322
,
377

Morrison, Herbert,
10

Morse, Wayne,
196
,
264
,
350
,
533
,
594

Morton, Louis,
495

Moscow,
80
,
127
,
143
,
153
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186
,
187
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188
,
189
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237
,
283
,
310
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311
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314
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368
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400
,
557

Moslem League,
219

Moslems,
218
,
219
,
220
,
396
,
397
,
422

Mothers’ Crusade Against Bill 1776,
48

Mountbatten, Lord Louis,
11
,
235
,
317
,
404
,
414
,
445
,
541
,
544

Mulberries (artificial harbors),
477

Munich,
14
,
295

Munich crisis,
7
,
93

Munitions. See Production

Munitions makers, investigation of (1930’s),
47

Murdock, Abe,
427
,
431

Murmansk, convoys to,
233
,
237
,
288
,
310
,
313

Murphy, Frank,
152

Murphy, Robert,
286
,
287
,
288
,
291
,
292
,
293
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295
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320
,
321
,
322

Murray, James E.,
427

Murray, Philip,
195
,
260
,
263
,
264
,
335
,
341
,
358

Murrow, Edward R.,
165
,
475

Mussolini, Benito: anxious to divert U.S. efforts to the Pacific,
20
; forces of, routed by British in Africa,
68
; Hitler plans to rescue,
391
; invades Greece,
14-15
; meeting with Hitler at Berchtesgaden,
330
; opinion of

F.D.R.,
158
; proves to be more of a drain than an ally,
69
,
70-71
; re­ceives letter from Hitler on Russian invasion,
96
; resignation of,
383
; reunion with Hitler,
394

My World and Welcome to It
(Thurber),
272

Myitkyina,
541

Myrdal, Gunnar,
54
,
472
,
512

Nagano, Osami,
137
,
138
,
139
,
154
,
158

Nagumo, Chuchi,
222
,
226

Nanking,
19
,
78

“Napalm,”
344
,
345

Naples,
394
,
438

Natal,
57

Nation, The
,
133
,
295
,
391
,
421
,
467
National Academy of Sciences,
343-344

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM),
301

National Bureau of Standards,
250

National Defense Mediation Board (NDMB),
116
,
117
,
177
,
194
,
195

National Defense Research Committee (NDRC),
251
,
344
,
345
,
346
; Detec­tion and Controls Division,
346

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),
465

National Negro Council,
123

National Railway Labor Panel,
338

National Resources Planning Board,
353

National’ Science Foundation,
465

National-service law (“work or fight” bill),
424
.
432-433
,
560

National War Labor Board,
192
,
263

National Youth Administration,
124

Nationalist China.
See
Chiang Kai-shek; China

Native Land
(documentary film),
271

Naval Affairs Committee (Senate),
40

Naval warfare.
See
Atlantic theater; Convoys; France: the French fleet; Japan: Navy; Navy, U.S.; Pacific theater; Royal Navy; Submarine war­fare

Navy, Department of the,
249
,
344
,
346
,
352

Navy, U.S.: aircraft carriers in,
345
; bombing attacks by, on Japanese cities considered,
86
; Coast Guard cutters transferred to the Royal Navy,
88
; defends East Indies,
223
; discrimination in,
266
,
268
,
471
; estimates of requirements of, submitted to F.D.R.,
84
; ill-prepared and equipped,
244
; Japanese strategy against, in the Pacific,
486
; losses,
224-225
,
540-541
; naval ships, production of,
193
; naval war in the Pacific,
222-226
,
540-541
; reviewed by F.D.R. at Pearl Harbor,
488
; F.D.R.’s partiality for,
349
; F.D.R. rebuilds,
526
; F.D.R.’s support of,
46
; Seventh Fleet,
540
; successes in the Pacific impress Churchill,
444
; suffers its worst defeat,
284
; Third Fleet,
540
; V-12 program,
464
.
See also
Atlantic theater; Convoys; King, Ernest J.; Marianas, Battle of the; Midway, Battle of; Nimitz, Chester W.; Pacific theater; Pearl Harbor; Royal Navy; Submarine warfare

Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939),
15
,
19
,
93
,
97
,
183
,
373
,
399
,
575

Nazis.
See
Germany

NDAC.
See
Advisory Commission to theCouncil of National Defense

Near East,
51
,
77
,
422

Nebraska,
279
,
281

Negro Newspaper Publishers Association,
463

Negroes.
See
Black Americans

Nehru, Jawaharlal,
219
,
220
,
221
,
222
,
239
,
242
,
380

Nelson, Donald M„
194
,
245
,
246
,
258
,
263
,
339
,
451
,
452

Nesbitt, Henrietta,
173

Netherlands,
33
,
80
,
137
,
156
,
185
,
186
,
558

Netherlands East Indies.
See
East Indies

Neutrality Act,
24
,
26
,
38
,
101
,
103
,
142
,
147
,
148

Nevada
, U.S.S.,
162

New Britain,
182
,
209

New Caledonia,
283

New Deal, vii,
8
,
35
,
37
,
39
,
40
,
44
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51
,
55
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60
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216
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257
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281
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301
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349
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426
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435
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448
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512
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529
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553
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