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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450934203321

Autore

Rofe J. Simon

Titolo

Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy and the Welles mission [[electronic resource] /] / J. Simon Rofe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36283-2

9786611362836

0-230-60489-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

The world of the Roosevelts

Disciplina

327.730409/044

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Diplomatic history

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations 1933-1945

United States Foreign relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Abstract; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Mission of Sumner Welles to Europe (February-March 1940), Rooseveltian Foreign Policy, and Anglo-American Relations, November 1937-May 1940; 1 Rooseveltian Foreign Policy Making and Anglo-American Relations in 1938 and 1939-Relationships in the Making; 2 War and Peace-Rooseveltian Foreign Policy and the ""Phony War"": ""Like Spectators at a Football Match""; 3 ""Wishing Welles"": The Immediate Origins of the Welles Mission, January and February 1940

4 Hope, Despair, Friends-Welles in Rome, Berlin, and Paris, 17 February-12 March 19405 ""The Grass Snake"" Arrives: Welles in London, 10 March-13 March 1940; 6 Increasingly Forlorn: Welles Heads Home via Rome; 7 The Welles Mission: A Short-Term Legacy to the Anglo-American Relationship and Rooseveltian Foreign Policy; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR's Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe's work explains the motivations and goals of Roosevelt through an analysis of the



president's foreign policy and of the nature of the Anglo-American relationship of the time.