Authors: David Nasaw
12
. Krock,
Memoirs,
187–89.
13
. Alva Johnston, “‘Jimmy’s Got It.’”
14
.
NYT,
June 30, 1938.
15
. JPK to JFK, May 2, 1938, box 1, JPKP.
16
. Pearson and Allen, July 1, 1938, http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/pearson/pearson.shtml.
SEVENTEEN: MUNICH
1
. Dirksen to state secretary in the German Foreign Ministry, July 20, 1938, in
Documents on German Foreign Policy
,
1918–1945
, series D, vol. 1, 721–23.
2
. JPK, diary, July 20, 1938, box 100, JPKP.
3
. S. Adler-Rudel, “The Evian Conference on the Refugee Question,” in
Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute,
1968, 13: 246–47.
4
. Catherine Bailey,
Black Diamonds
(London: Viking, 2007), 349–51; Barbara Leaming,
Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman
(New York: Norton, 2006), 86.
5
. REFK, diary, July 24, 1938, box 2, REFK.
6
. Maria Riva,
Marlene Dietrich
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1992), 469.
7
. Morgenthau, diaries, Aug. 30, 1938, vol. 140, item 7, Morgenthau.
8
. Henry Morgenthau III,
Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History
(New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991), 290–91.
9
. Riva,
Marlene Dietrich,
469.
10
. Burns to JPK, Aug. 2, 1938, box 103, JPKP.
11
. Krock to JPK, Aug. 11, 1938, box 109, JPKP.
12
. JPK to Messersmith, Sept. 12, 1938, box 112, JPKP.
13
. Messersmith to JPK, Oct. 1, 1938, w.b. 32; JPK to Messersmith, Oct. 13, 1938, box 112, JPKP.
14
. REFK, diary, Aug. 17, 21, 1938, box 2, REFKP; JPK, Jr., to JPK, n.d., box 1, JPKP.
15
. Bullitt to SS, Aug. 29,
FRUS,
1938, 1:776–78.
16
. JPK to SS, Aug. 31,
FRUS,
1938, 1:566.
17
. JPK to SS, Aug. 30,
FRUS,
1938, 1:560–61.
18
. JPK to SS, Sept. 1,
FRUS,
1938, 1:565–66;
CDT,
Sept. 3, 1938.
19
. FDR to Hull, Sept. 1, 1938, box 170, Hull; Morgenthau, diaries, Sept. 1, 1938, vol. 138, 33–35, Morgenthau.
20
. Morgenthau, diaries, Aug. 30, 1938, vol. 140, item 7, Morgenthau.
21
. JPK to SS, Aug 31, 1938, box 37, FDRRSF.
22
. Moffat, diary, Aug. 31, 1938, Moffat.
23
. Morgenthau, diaries, Sept. 1, 1938, vol. 138, Morgenthau.
24
. Ickes, diary, July 16, 1938, Ickes.
25
. JPK, Jr., to JPK, Sept. 6, 1938; EKS to JPK, Sept. 4, 1938, box 2, JPKP.
26
. JPK to SS, Sept. 10,
FRUS,
1938, 1:585–86; Halifax to Lindsay, Sept. 10, 1938, FO 371/21636, NAUK.
27
. Halifax to Lindsay, Sept. 11, 1938, FO 371/21736, NAUK; JPK to Hull, Sept. 11,
FRUS,
1938, 1:587–88.
28
. Kordt to German Foreign Ministry, Sept. 12, 1938,
Documents on German Foreign Policy,
series D, vol. 2, 742–43; Selzam, memorandum, in Kordt to German Foreign Ministry, Sept. 12, 1938, in
Documents on German Foreign Policy,
series D, vol. 2, 743–44.
29
. JPK to SS, Sept. 12,
FRUS,
1938, 1:591.
30
. JPK to SS, Sept. 13,
FRUS,
1938, 1:592.
31
. REFK, diary, Sept. 13, 14, 1938, box 2, REFKP.
32
. JPK to Goldsmith, Sept. 14, 1938, box 108, JPKP.
33
. Goldsmith to JPK, Sept. 16, 1938, box 108, JPKP.
34
. JPK to SS, Sept. 17, [two cables],
FRUS,
1938, 1:607–12.
35
. Morgenthau, diaries, Sept. 19, 1938, vol. 141, 115, Morgenthau.
36
. JPK to SS, Sept. 19,
FRUS,
1938, 1: 622; JPK, “DM,” 14:28, JPKP.
37
. Anne Morrow Lindbergh:
The Flower and the Nettle: Diaries and Letters, 1936–1939
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), 409.
38
. Charles Lindbergh,
The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970), 72.
39
. Lindbergh, in JPK to Hull, Sept. 22, 1938, box 450, Lindbergh.
40
. John Slessor,
The Central Blue
(New York: Praeger, 1957), 218–19.
41
. Ian Kershaw,
Hitler: 1936
–
1945, Nemesis
(New York: Norton, 2000), 112–15.
42
.
Diaries of Sir Alexander
Cadogan,
102–3; JPK to SS, Sept. 24,
FRUS,
1938, 1:642–43.
43
. Transcript of telephone conversation, Hull and JPK, Sept. 24, 1938, box 66, Hull.
44
. JPK to SS, Sept. 25,
FRUS,
1938, 1:652.
45
. JPK, “DM,” 15:11; JPK to SS, Sept. 26, 1938, box 170; JPK, “DM,” 14:1, 2, JPKP.
46
. FDR to Hitler, Sept. 26,
FRUS,
1938, 1: 657–58.
47
. Transcript of telephone conversation, Welles to JPK, Sept. 26,
FRUS,
1938, 1:660–61.
48
. William Shirer,
Berlin Diary
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941), 141–42.
49
. Hitler to FDR, received Sept. 26,
FRUS,
1938, 1:669–72; JPK, “DM,” 16:4, JPKP.
50
. JPK, diary, Sept. 27, 1938, box 100, JPKP; John Wheeler-Bennett,
Munich: Prologue to Tragedy
(New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1948), 151–52.
51
. JPK, diary, Sept. 27, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
286–87; JKS to author, Dec. 11, 2009; JPK, “DM,” 16:7, JPKP.
52
. JPK, diary, Sept. 27, 1938, box 100, JPKP.
53
. Ickes,
Secret Diary,
2:477.
54
. Transcript of telephone conversation, Welles to JPK, Sept. 27,
FRUS,
1938, 1: 678–79.
55
. REFK, diary, Sept. 28, 1938, box 2, REFKP.
56
. JPK, “DM,” 16:12–13.
57
. JPK, “DM,” 16:13.
58
. Harold George Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters
, ed. Nigel Nicolson (New York: Atheneum, 1966–1968), 1:370–71.
59
. JPK to SS, Sept. 28,
FRUS,
1938, 1:692–93.
60
. JPK, “DM,” 16:16, JPKP.
61
. SS to JPK, Sept. 28,
FRUS,
1938, 1:688.
62
. JPK, diary, Sept. 28, 1938, box 100, JPKP; REFK, diary, Sept. 28, 1938, box 2, REFKP.
EIGHTEEN: THE KENNEDY PLAN
1
. Churchill, speech, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1938/oct/05/policy-of-his-majestys-government.
2
. Welles to JPK, Oct. 5,
FRUS,
1938, 1:791–92.
3
. JPK, “DM,” 29:1–2, JPKP; Chamberlain to FDR, Oct. 7,
FRUS,
1938, 1:794–95, sequence of clauses rearranged.
4
. JPK to Sarnoff, Oct. 7, 1938, box 115, JPKP.
5
. Rublee and Welles, “Memorandum of Trans-Atlantic Telephone Conversation,” [Oct. 10],
FRUS
, 1938, 1:795–96.
6
. Rublee to Warren, in Rublee to Taylor, Oct. 14, 1938,
The Holocaust,
vol. 6
, Jewish Emigration 1938
–
1940
(New York: Garland Publishing, 1982), 1–3.
7
. Walter Laqueur,
A History of Zionism
(New York: MJF Books, 1972), 509; Martin Gilbert,
Israel: A History
(New York: Morrow, 1998), 80–95;
NYT,
Oct. 2, 4, 6, 1938.
8
. Weizmann to Brandeis et al., Oct. 6, 1936, Szold Papers, CZA.
9
. SS to JPK, Oct. 12,
FRUS,
1938, 2:951–53.
10
. Transcript of telephone conversation, Hull and JPK, Oct. 14, 1938, Hull.
11
. Pearson and Allen, Oct. 31, 1938, http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/pearson/pearson.shtml.
12
. JPK to Hull, Oct. 28, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
297.
13
. FDR to JPK, Nov. 2, 1938, PSF 38, FDRL.
14
. Trafalgar Day address, Oct. 19, 1938, box 155, JPKP;
NYT
, Oct. 20, 1938.
15
. Moffat, diary, Oct. 21, 1938, Moffat.
16
. Moffat, diary, Oct. 26, 1938, Moffat;
NYT,
Oct. 27, 1938.
17
. Frank Kent, “The Great Game of Politics,”
WSJ,
Oct. 28, 1938; Moffat, diary, Nov. 4, 1938, Moffat.
18
. Burns to JPK, Nov. 4, 1938, box 103, JPKP.
19
. JPK to White, Nov. 12, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
299–300.
20
. JPK, “DM,” 18:4–6; JPK to Fleeson, Nov. 9, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
298–99; JPK to White, Nov. 12, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
299–300.
21
. JPK, Jr., draft, Nov. 14, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
301–2.
22
. JFK to parents, n.d., box 1, JFKP.
23
. NA to Anne Lindbergh, Nov. 2, 1938, Lindbergh-Astor correspondence, MS 1416/1/2/471, Astor; Beaverbrook to Gannett, Dec. 9, 1938, Gannett.
24
. Cohen to Szold, Oct. 12, 1938, Jacobs.
25
. “X’s” interview with Kennedy, Nov. 2, 1938, Weizmann.
26
. Jacobs to Szold, Nov. 4, 1938, Jacobs.
27
. Lipstadt,
Beyond Belief,
98.
28
. Friedländer,
Nazi Germany and the Jews,
277.
29
. JPK to Lindbergh, Nov. 12, 1938, Smith,
HTF
, 300–301.
30
. REFK, diary, Nov. 13, 1938, box 2, REFKP; JPK, Jr., diary, Nov. 14, 1938, in author’s possession.
31
. Henry Feingold,
The Politics of Rescue
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970, 31, 92, 102–5.
32
. Press conference no. 500, Nov. 15, 1938, FDRL; Moffat, diary, Nov. 16, 17, 1938, Moffat.
33
. REFK, diary, Nov. 15, 1938, box 2, REFKP; JPK, diary, Nov. 15, 1938, box 100, JPKP.
34
. Halifax to Lindsay, Nov. 16, 1938, FO 371/21637, NAUK.
35
. Minutes of cabinet meeting, Nov. 16, 1938, FO 371/21658, NAUK.
36
. Welles, memorandum of conversation, Nov. 17,
FRUS,
1938, 1:829–31.
37
. JPK to SS, Nov. 18, 1938, PSF 31, FDRL.
38
. Moffat, diary, Nov. 22, 1938, Moffat.
39
. JPK to Fisher, Nov. 25, 1938, 106; JPK to Davenport, Nov. 25, 1938, box 105, JPKP; JPK, Jr., Dec. 10, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
305–6.
40
. JPK to Fleeson, Nov. 9, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
298–9; JPK to Boettiger, Nov. 25, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
304; JPK, Jr., “November 21,” Smith,
HTF,
303–4.
41
.
CDT,
Dec. 5, 1938; Ickes, diary, Nov. 25, 1938, Ickes.
42
. Morgenthau, diaries, Dec. 5, 1938, vol. 154, 367–68, Morgenthau.
43
. JPK, Jr., mss., Dec. 10, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
305–6.
44
. Pearson and Allen, Dec. 8, 1938, http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/pearson/pearson.shtml.
45
. JPK, memorandum, Dec. 19, 1938, PSF 37, FDRL.
46
. REFK to JPK, n.d., box 2, JPKP.
47
.
LAT,
Jan. 11, 1939, 1.
48
. Halifax to Chamberlain, Chamberlain to Halifax, Feb. 3, 1939, FO 371/22827, NAUK.
49
. JPK, “DM,” 21:13, JPKP.
50
. Moffat, diary, Feb. 9, 1939, Moffat.
NINETEEN: SIDELINED AND CENSORED
1
. JPK to SS, Feb. 17,
FRUS,
1939, 1:14–17.
2
. Welles, memorandum, Feb. 20,
FRUS,
1939, 1:18–20.
3
. JPK to FDR, Mar. 3, 1939, PSF 37, FDRL.
4
. FDR to Chief of Naval Operations, PSF Navy, Mar. 13, 1939, FDRL.
5
. JPK to Galeazzi, Feb. 25, 1939, box 107; Hull to JPK, Mar. 7, 1939, box 172, JPKP.
6
. Pope Paul VI, oral history, 1964, JPKOHP; JPK, diary, Mar. 12, 1938, box 100, JPKP.
7
. JPK to Hull, Mar. 18, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
321–22.
8
. JPK, diary, Mar. 21, 1939, box 100, JPKP.
9
. JPK to SS, Mar. 31,
FRUS,
1939, 1:105–6.
10
. JPK, diary, Mar. 30, 1939, box 100, JPKP.
11
. Lindbergh,
The Flower and the Nettle
, 526–29; JPK to Murphy, Apr. 18, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
330.
12
. George F. Kennan,
Memoirs: 1925
–19
50
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967), 91–92.
13
. JPK to JFK, June 7, 1939, box 2, JPKP.
14
. REFK, diary, July 4, 1939, box 2, REFKP.
15
. Torbert Macdonald, oral history, Aug. 11, 1968, JFKOHP.
16
. RK to JPK, Feb. 27, 1939, box 2, JPKP.
17
. CBL to JPK, Oct. 10, 1938, box 91, CBLP.
18
. CBL to JPK, May 26, 1939, box 93, CBLP.
19
. Alan Brinkley,
The Publisher
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), 306.
20
. Sylvia Jukes Morris,
Rage for Fame
(New York: Random House, 1997), 340–41.
21
. SS to JPK, Apr. 18,
FRUS,
1939, 2:234–35; June 20, 2:256–57.
22
. JPK to Welles, Apr. 5, 1939, box 117, JPKP.
23
. FDR to Hitler and Mussolini, Apr. 14,
FRUS,
1939, 1:130–33.
24
. JPK to Roosevelt, Hull, Apr. 20, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
330.
25
. Transcript of telephone conversation, Hull and JPK, Apr. 24, 1939, Hull.
26
. James D. Mooney, notes on European travel, box 1, Mooney.
27
. JPK to Welles, May 4, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
331–32.