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Veröffentlichung:	März 2007
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
ISBN:	9781406737851
EAN-Code:	9781406737851
Verlag:	McGiffert Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 140 mm / D 49 mm
Gewicht:	1160 gr
Seiten:	838
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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MISSION TO MOSG OW BT JOSEPH E. DAVIES UNITED ST X ES AMBASSADOR TO THE SOVIET UNION FROM 1936 TO 1938 A record of confidential dispatches to the State Department, official and personal correspondence, current diary and journal entries, including notes and comment up to October, 1941 LONDON VICTOR GOLLANCZ LIMITED 1945 TO TWO GREAT WOMEN MY MOTHER and MY WIFE First Published May Second Impression June Third Impression September 1942 Fourth Impression November 1942 Fifth Impression March 1943 Sixth Impression May 1943 Seventh Impression August 1943 Eighth Impression yanuary 1944 Ninth Impression October 1944 Tenth Impression March PRINTKT IN GREAT BRITAIN BY WTT. TJAVf QUOWBS AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BBGCJJBS TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD V AUTHORS NOTE xi I. The Mission Begins November z6 y iggfi-March 30, 1937 13 n. Washington and Points East April 5-June so, 7957 98 HI. The Purge Hits the Red Army June 25-July Sf8 9 1937 109 iv. Russia Through Her Neighbours Eyes July 98-December 24 937 139 v. The Purge Hits Bukharin January i-Marck 17, 1938 172 vi. Moscow Hears the Drums of War March 14-April, 1938 185 vn. Climax of the Mission April 6-July 5, 1938 203 vm. Brief on the Facts June 6, 1938 243 DC. Harvest of the Mission July 6 9 1938-October s8 1941 274 CHRONOLOGY 329 APPENDIX 341 Supplementary Report on the Stalin Conversation 341 Footnote on Sweden 346 The Baltic States Prepare for the Worst 348 Expert Report on Russias War Industries 354 Inventory on Russias Richest Region 356 Memorandum on Soviet Industrial Regions 356 The Port of Odessa 364 Bread-baking hi Odessa 365 The Port of Batum 366 The Batum Oil Refinery 367 The Soviet Atlantic City 374 Mountains of Cement at Novorosbsk376 The Winery at Yalta 379 Recreation Gamps at Yalta 388 Collective Farms in the Ukraine 391 Documentation on the Demarche that Failed 397 Documents on Debt and Trade Talks The Ambassadors Farewell 41 1 We surely cannot deny to any nation that right whereon our own government is founded that every one may govern itself according to its own will, and that it may transact its business through whatever organ it thinks proper, whether king, convention, assembly, committee, preside or anything else it may choose. THOMAS JEFI RSON FOREWORD IT was August 25, 1936. I remember the date because it was my mothers birthday. I was up in the Adirondacks. I received a long distance telephone call from my old friend, Secretary Steve Early at the White House, saying that the President wanted to see me. I went to Washington immediately. The President received me hi the executive offices of the White House. Over a lunch which was served to us on his office desk he told me that he wanted to talk to me about a possible diplomatic appointment abroad. The background of this situation is found in the old days of Presi dent Wilsons dxninistration when we had been young men together, devoted to the raogressive cause in the Democratic Party, both before and dugfng the Wilson Administration. A warm friendship had developedin those old days. We golfed together as regularly as our work would permit, had much in common in our political out look, and saw a great deal of each other. Even in those days he was a marked man. Early in the Wilson Administration we had an organization called the Common Counsel Club, which brought us all together twice a month. It was similar hi character to the Little Cabinet of later days.All of us saw in this tall, handsome young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the future great progressive liberal whom we were all for in connection with some future elec tion to the presidency. In all of his political campaigns thereafter, along with these other men, I was actively engaged in his interest along with Louis Howe and other political managers. During all these years our friendship has been both warm and steadfast. One of the strongest bonds of our friendship was our mothers...