INDEX
A
Page
Aaland Islands, agreement on . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 258
Abe, Nobuyuki, Japanese Premier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Afghanistan:
Axis nationals in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 301
Membership in the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Kellogg–Briand Pact
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Albania:
Declared war on United States, (reported) . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 312
Italian position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 95
Occupied by Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 185
Albert, King of the Belgians, appeal to Oslo
Powers . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Alcan Military Highway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 345
Alexander, King of Yugoslavia, assassination . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 51
Alexander, Gen. Sir Harold, British commander in the
Middle East . . 322, 339, 363
Alexandretta Sanjak
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Alien Property Custodian, on seizure of patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 271
All–India Congress Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 328, 339
Allied Control Commission in Italy . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 370
Alps, as frontier
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
American Committee of Neutrals (United States, Cuba,
Colombia, Mexico,
Uruguay) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 16, 19, 22, 27, 32
American Republics:
Nonaggression treaty at Buenos Aires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Protest to France, Great Britain, and Germany . . .
. . . . . . . 228, 230, 231
Third meeting of foreign ministers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218, 315
American solidarity
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
American technical mission in Brazil . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 340
American volunteers in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 116
American war prisoners, treatment by Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
American–British declaration to metropolitan
France . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Andaman Islands:
Occupied by Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Raided by Japanese
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Andreanof Islands, occupied by United States
forces . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Andrews, Gen. Frank, American commander in
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Anglo–American Caribbean Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Anglo–American cotton–rubber agreement . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 193
Anglo–American destroyer–bases deal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Anglo–American mutual aid agreement . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 320
Anglo-American naval air base agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Anglo–Bulgarian diplomatic rupture . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 272
Anglo–Ethiopian military convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Anglo–French cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anglo–French defense accord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 152
Anglo–French mission in Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Anglo–French naval maneuvers . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 179
Anglo–French relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 71, 72
Anglo–French Syria–Lebanon armistice . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 288
Anglo–French–Belgian military talks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90, 92
Anglo–French–Polish alliance . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 200
Anglo–French–Polish plans for consultation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
375
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Anglo–French–Russian proposed staff consultation . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 199, 200
Anglo–French–Russian protest to Hitler . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 181
Anglo–German cartel agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Anglo–German naval agreement denounced by
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Anglo–German new naval protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Anglo–Hungarian diplomatic rupture . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 276
Anglo–Iranian–Russian alliance . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 317
Anglo–Iraqi armistice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Anglo–Italian border agreement in Libya–Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anglo–Italian conversations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 142
Anglo–Italian pact on Italian conquest . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 151
Anglo–Italian pact on status quo in the
Mediterranean . . . . . . . . . . 115
Anglo–Italian relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73, 76
Anglo–Japanese accord on Tientsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Anglo–Mexican diplomatic rupture . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 154
Anglo–Persian oil dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anglo–Polish alliance and Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Anglo–Polish mutual assistance agreement . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 204
Anglo–Polish naval agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Anglo–Rumanian diplomatic rupture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Anglo–Russian commercial treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Anglo–Russian declaration on aid to Turkey . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 292
Anglo–Russian mutual aid agreement . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 288, 331
Anglo–Russian new naval protocol . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 156
Anglo–Thailand nonaggression treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Anglo–Turkish agreement on military cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Anglo–Turkish trade agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Anschluss:
Approved in Austria by plebiscite . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 151
Recognition by Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Anti–Comintern pact
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109, 135
Renewed and expanded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Antiwar pact of Rio de Janeiro . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 35
Antonescu, Marshal, dictator of Rumania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Arab Brotherhood Treaty (Iraq and Saudi–Arabia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Arab High Committee, unlawful in Palestine . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 132
Arab treaty of alliance (Iraq, Saudi–Arabia and
Yemen) . . . . . . . . . . 120
Arab–Jewish conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 181
Arauca, steamship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 275
Argentina:
Asks for League action on Ethiopian–Italian dispute
. . . . . . . . . . 95
Military revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 361
Arita, Hachiro, Japanese Foreign Minister:
On German–Japanese Anti–Comintern agreement . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 115
On new order in East Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 231
On status quo in the Netherlands Indies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Arnold–Dill–Kai–shek–Wavell conference . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 355
Aryan law in Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 28,71
Athenia, sinking . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Atlantic Charter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 293
Attlee, Clement, Deputy Premier of Great Britain . .
. .. . . . . . . . . 242
Attu, United States landings . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 360
Australia:
Declared war on Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 214
Declared war on Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 309
Declared war on Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
On return of German colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Detachments in Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Austria:
Compulsory military service . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 90
Conscription law
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Dollfuss government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 43
German National Socialist Party . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 32
Germany not liable for her indebtedness . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 170
Independence guaranteed by British and French . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 40, 50
Military service in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 143
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Page
Austria–Continued.
Nazi putsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 48
Pro–Nazis in control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Reunion with Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Revolt of Nazis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 146
Revolution (1934) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 37
Semi–Fascist constitution . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 47
Socialist military organization . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 27
Austrian National Socialist Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Austrian Nazis, terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Austro–German agreement on Austrian sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Azana, Manuel, Premier of Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Election to Presidency of Spain . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 94
Azores, United Nations use permitted . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 368
B
Badoglio, Field Marshal Pietro, new Italian
Premier . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Baldwin Stanley, British Prime Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
On Britain s frontier of Rhine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
On collective security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 97
On Italo–Ethiopian conflict . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 74
On transfer of mandated territory . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 93
Balkan conference at Bucharest . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 20
Balkan Entente:
Meeting of foreign ministers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Stresa Conference endorsed by , . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 60
Balkan Pact (1934) , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 39
Balkan union (between Greece and Yugoslavia) , . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 315
Baltic states:
Their relations with Russia . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 56
Signing of treaty of good understanding . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 49
Ball–Burton–Hatch–Hill resolution in Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Bank crisis in United States, checking of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Bardia (Libya), British capture of . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 317
Barthou, Louis, Foreign Minister of France,
assassination of . . . . . . . 57
Batiste, President of Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 351
Beck, Colonel Josef, Foreign Minister of Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Belgian Army, surrender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Belgian Congo, in war with Italy . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 267
Belgian neutrality, guaranteed by Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Belgium . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
British pledge
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Devaluation of belga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Good offices offered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Integrity respected by Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Invasion by Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 237
Mobilized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 230
Policy of self–defense and freedom from alliances .
. . . . . . . . . . 106
Protest of Germany
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Reaffirm neutrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 234
Released from Locarno obligation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Rejects Allied preventive aid . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 234
Benes, Eduard, President of Czechoslovakia . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 24, 79
Resignation of
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Bengasi:
Captured by British . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 349
Occupied by the Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Berle, A. A., United States Assistant Secretary of
State . . . . . . . . . 301
Berlin, daylight bombing by British . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Bermuda Conference on Refugees . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 358
Bessarabia, Russia's claim . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 247
Beveridge report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 350
Biddle, ,A. J. D., Jr., United States Ambassador to
Warsaw, on German
bombing of Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 216
Biddle, Francis, United States Attorney General . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Bismarck Sea, Battle of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
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Bizerte Allied capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 360
Blum Leon, Premier of France . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 83
New cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 147
For conditional cooperation with Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Bohemia, emergency in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 299
Bohemia, German protectorate . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 180
Bolivia and the Chaco dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Bolivia: Appeal to League Council on the proposed
arms embargo . . . . . . 46
Asked ABC and Peru be placed on League Commission .
. . . . . . . . . . 33
Coup d'état in
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Declared war on Germany and Italy . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 357
League commission for Chaco accepted by . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 32
Negotiations with ABC and Peru on Chaco dispute . .
. . . . . . . . . . 35
New conciliation formula presented by ABC and
Peru . . . . . . . . . . 34
United Nations Declaration signed . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 359
Protest to United States on arms embargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Request that Chaco dispute be referred to League
assembly . . . . . . . 46
United States agreement on copper . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 325
Withholds approval of Chaco dispute arbitration . .
. . . . . . . . . . 29
Bolshevism, war by, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 34
Bonnet, George, French Foreign Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Borah, William E., United States Senator . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 14
Boris, King of Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Adjourns parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 27
Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 365
Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 17
Adhered to United Nations Declaration . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 355
Declared war on Germany and Italy . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 340
Diplomatic rupture with the Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Brazilian–Cuban alliance against the Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Brenner Pass, Hitler on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Briand Kellogg Pact
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
British Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870 . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 116
British Ministry of Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
British Proposals on Spanish situation . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 125
Bruening, Heinrich, Chancellor of Germany . . . . ..
. . . . . . . . . . . 11, 16
Brussels Conference (see Nine Power Conference). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Bulgaria, adheres to Axis Pact . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 271
Bulgaria:
Annexed part of Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Attacks Yugoslavia
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Dictatorship in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 44
Declared war on United States . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 312
Dobruja and outlet to Aegean Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Martial law in
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Nonaggression pact with Balkans . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 158
Rejects Axis Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 263
Warned by Russia
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Rumanian agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Bulgaro-Turkish Nonaggression Pact . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 271
Bulgaro-Yugoslav treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Bullitt, William C. United States Ambassador in Paris . . . . . . . . . . 254
Burma . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Independence granted by Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Burma Road, reopening of . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 269
C
Caballero, Largo, forms government of Socialists and
Communists in Spain . 103
Cabenallas, General Miguel, formed provisional
government at Burgos . . . 99
Cadiz, German troop landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 112
Calinescu, Armand, Rumanian Premier, assassination
of . . . . . . . . . . 217
Camacho, President Manuel Avila, of Mexico . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 332
Camelots du Roi, dissolution of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Cameroons, control by French . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 324
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Canada:
Dominion of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 8, 159
Declared war on Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 216
Declared war on Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 308
Diplomatic rupture with Vichy . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 347
Recommends the extension of sanctions . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 75
Canadian–American agreement on post war
settlements . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Canadian–American Joint Defense Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Canadian–Russian diplomatic relations resumed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Canadian–Russian wheat agreement . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 341
Cape Esperance, Battle of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Capitulations: Abolition, in Egypt . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 121
In Morocco .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
In Zanzibar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 120
Cardenas, President Lazaro, of Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Carol, King of Rumania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 246
Casablanca Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill, and
chiefs of staff) . . . . 353
Casey, Richard A.:
Australian Minister, Washington . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 323
Member of British War Cabinet . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 323
Castillo, Dr. Ramon, President of Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
On Argentine neutrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 341
Castillo, Lieut. José, assassination . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 99
Catholic Centre Party in Danzig, dissolution of . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Caucasus, Russian offensive in . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 352
Central European Commonwealth under German
leadership . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chaco dispute (Bolivia–Paraguay) . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 19, 22, 32
ABC and Peru neutrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 17
Agreement of neutrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 116
And the American Committee of Neutrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 25
Arbitration recommended by Committee of Three . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 29
Armistice signed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 65
And arms embargo
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
And the League Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 46
And the League Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 41
League Commission's proposals to arbitrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
And the League Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Nonrecognition policy of 19 American states . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 17
At Pan–American Conference at Montevideo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
United States to cooperate with ABC Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
United States embargo of arms to disputants . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 46
Chaco Mediation Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 63
Chaco Peace Commission, its procés-verbal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Chaco Peace Commission succeeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chaco Peace Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 66
Chaco Peace Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 157
Chaco, proposed 60 day Armistice . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chamberlain, Neville, Premier of Great Britain . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 122
Allied aid to Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
On Anglo–French solidarity . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.. . . . . . . . . 177
Appeal to Hitler for "a truce to press
polemics" . . . . . . . . . . . 202
On Britain's inability to help Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
On British aid to France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160, 172
British Army
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
British nationals in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
British preparations for war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
On British retreat from Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236,
237
And compulsory military training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
In defense of Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
On the end of sanctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 96
On fundamental basis of British Foreign Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
On Japanese in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Military training bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
On Nine Power Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
On "quarantine speech" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 132
On projected Anglo–French–Russian military alliance
. . . . . . . . . . 192
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Chamberlain, Neville, Premier of Great Britain
.Continued.
Proposes conference of powers . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 166
Protest against Austrian conscript laws . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 90
Refusal of Godesburg demands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Repeats guarantee to help Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Resignation of
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238, 257
Visit to Berchtesgaden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Warns Germany on European security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Changchun bombed and occupied . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4
Chautemps Cabinet, resignation of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Chengtu and Pakhoi incidents, settlement of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Chile . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chile, diplomatic rupture with the Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
China . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13
Affirmation of United States interests in . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 43
Appeal to the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5
Assets in United States frozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Declared war on Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 310
Diplomatic rupture with Vichy . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 364
Extraterritorial rights renounced by Brazil . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 340
Invoking of League Covenant . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 129
Japanese demands accepted by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Japanese punitive action in . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 126
Japan's compulsion to mend her ways . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 128
Japan's designs in
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Japan s desire for
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Japans new order
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Loan from Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 264
Loan from United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 30, 256, 264
The new National Government of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Nonaggression pact. with Russia . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 127
Protest to United States in Silver Purchase Act . .
. . . . . . . . . . 48
Provisional government at Peiping . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 139
Requests help of United States because of Silver
Purchase Act . . . . . 51
Silver standard abandoned by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
United States financial aid . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 318
United States military mission to . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 295
Wang-Ching-Wei regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 288
Chinchow, bombing of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chinese–American monetary accord . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 279
Chinese–British treaty relinquishes extraterritorial
rights . . . . . . . 353
Chinese Eastern Railway:
Alleged seizure by Manchukuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Offered for sale by Russia to Japan . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 28
Sold to Manchukuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 58
Chinese Exclusion Act, repeal of . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 368
Chinese–United States treaty renouncing
extraterritorial rights . . . . . 353
Christian X, King of Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 277
Churchill, Winston:
Named Prime Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .
. . . . . . . . . . 238
Anglo–American alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 366
Appeal to France
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Appeal to Italian people . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 265
On British aid to United States . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . 294
On British unity
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
On British war policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 238
On causes of retreat from Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
On Dunkirk .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 241
Forecasts long war
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 232
On French armistice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 247
On Germans in Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
On leasing bases to United States . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 254
On Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 329
Visit to Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 339
Promise of victory
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Vote of confidence for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Voted supreme powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
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Page
Churchill–Continued.
Warning to neutrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 230
In Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 366
Ciano, Count:
Italian Foreign Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
On Anglo .Italian rapprochement . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 126
City of Flint, captured by Germans . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Clark, General Mark, in Salerno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Collective security explained by Premier Baldwin . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 97
Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 6
Accepts League Advisory Committee's recommendation
on Leticia . . . . . 30
Diplomatic rupture with France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Diplomatic rupture with Japan . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 309
Leticia agreement signed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Combined Chiefs of Staff (Anglo–American). . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 318
Combined Food Board (Anglo–American) . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 332
Combined Products and Resources Board
(Anglo–American) . . . . . . . . . . 332
Combined Raw Materials Board . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 316
Combined Shipping Adjustment Board . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 316
Combined Steel Committee (United States,
Anglo–Canadian) . . . . . . . . . 351
Committee of Five on Italo .Ethiopian dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Committee of Three:
And the Chaco dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 26
And the use of arms embargo in Chaco dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Asked to report on Leticia dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Communist deputies in Reichstag and Landtag, arrest
of . . . . . . . . . . 25
Communist International:
Dissolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 361
Seventh World Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
And subversive activities . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 109
Communists in Prussia, state civil service, arrest
of . . . . . . . . . . 25
Conference for the Limitation of Armaments . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 13
Connally resolution
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Cooper, A. Duff, First Lord of the Admiralty,
resignation of . . . . . . . 167
Coral Sea, Battle of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 329
Corregidor Island surrendered to Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Costa Rica, declared war on Japanese . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 309
Coulondre, Robert, French Ambassador in Berlin:
On approaching crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 193, 194
On Danzig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 193
On German aggression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
On Germany's preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 197
On Polish provocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 195
Report on German troop concentrations . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 201
Warns Germany on Anglo–French–Polish alliance . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 200
Croatia:
Independent State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 281
Reoccupied by Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 298
Croatian monarchy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Croix de Feu, dissolution ordered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Cripps, Sir Stafford:
On India . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Special British envoy in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Cuba:
Disturbances in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 34
Restriction of Army shipment to . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 47
State of war declared in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
United States arms export to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Cuban–Russian diplomatic relations established . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 345
Cummings, Homer, United States Attorney General, on
war debt payment . . . 43
Cunningham, Admiral, commander of British Fleet in
Mediterranean . . . . . 355
Curtin, John, Premier of Australia, on global
war . . . . . . . . . . . 358, 361
Cvetkovich, Yugoslav Premier . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 177
Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 15
Agrees to Sudeten concessions . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 102
Amnesty in .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
And Anglo–French partition proposals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
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Page
Czechoslovakia–Continued.
British partition proposals . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 162
Defense of state law enacted. . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 94
Determined to defend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Devaluation of crown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Dismemberment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 172
Dissolution of German National Socialist Party and Nationalist Party .
35
France's assurance to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 156
Frontiers guaranteed by the powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Frontiers Pact attacked . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 162
Minority reforms
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Mobilized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 163
Occupied by Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 180
Partition. recommended by The Times . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 160
Payment of war debts to United States . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 31
Prohibits public meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 151
Promise of autonomy to Slovakia and Ruthenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
State of emergency
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Willing to arbitrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Willing to negotiate Sudeten disputes . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 165
Czechoslovak–British agreement . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 354
Czechoslovak–Polish Confederation Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Czechoslovak .Russian agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Czechoslovak–Russian Mutual Assistance Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61, 98
Czechoslovak–Russian Mutual Assistance Treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Czechoslovak .Russian treaty . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 370
D
Dakar, British withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Daladier, Eduard, Premier of France:
Appeal to Hitler for peaceful settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Given plenary powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Out of French cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 241
Danish Rigsdag and wearing of uniforms . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 28
Danish–United States agreement on Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Danubian states cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 95
Danzig:
A German city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 188
All political meetings forbidden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anti-Jewish riot
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Annexed to Germany
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Control of foreign exchange . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 65
Declared against non-Nazis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Devaluation of Gulden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 61
Dissolution of Social Democratic Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Interference with mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
National Socialist Party, membership of civil
servants . . . . . . . . 98
New parties forbidden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 135
Seizure of trade-union headquarters . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 29
Visit of Nazi Gauleiter Albert Forster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Danzig Jews, deportation order . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 173
Danzig police
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Danzig Senate:
Demands on Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 199
Requests to League Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Danzig Volkstag, Nazi victory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Danzig–Polish:
Agreement on treatment of nationals . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 34
Harbor agreement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Darlan, Admiral:
On French collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 282
Assassinated
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
On French Fleet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 352
On north Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 349
Davies Joseph E., President's special emissary to
Stalin . . . . . . . . . 360
Davis, Norman, United States representative at
Nine-Power Conference . . . 134
Dawes, Gen. Charles, United States Ambassador in
London . . . . . . . . .
8
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Page
Debuchi, Katsuji, Japanese Ambassador in
Washington . . . . . . . . . . . 23
DeGraeff, A. C. Foreign Minister of the
Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Del Rio, President of Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Denmark:
Diplomatic rupture with Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
German ultimatum
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Gold export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 5
Invaded by Germany
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Martial law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 366
United States consuls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 288
Deutschland,
bombed by Loyalists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Devers, Gen. J. L., American commander in European
theaters . . . . . . . 360
Dieppe, Allied commando landings . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 340
Dirksen, Herbert von, German Ambassador in
London . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
On British public opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 196
Dobruja, wanted by Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 245
Dodds, Dr. H. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 358
Dollfuss, Engelbert, Chancellor of Austria . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 26
On Austria's independence . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 409
Exit of his government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 43
Killed in Nazi putsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 48
New cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 34
Dominican Republic:
Conciliation with Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 140
Declared war on Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 309
Honduras agreement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Doolittle, Gen. J. H., bombing of Tokyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Draft declaration of discussion with Indian
leaders . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Dunkirk, evacuation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Dutch delegates at the Fourteenth Assembly on German
Refugees . . . . . . 35
Dutch Guiana (Surinam), occupied by United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Dutch Harbor, bombed by Japanese . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 332
East European Mutual Security Pact, German rejection
. . . . . . . . . . . 42
East Indies, battle of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 321
Eastern Locarno Pact, rejection by Germany . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 49
Ecuador:
Abandoned sanctions against Italy . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 90
Member of the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Ecuador–Peru frontier agreement . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 317
Eden, Anthony, British foreign secretary . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 265, 280
On Albania .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
On appeasement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 117
On Britain's conciliation . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 130
On Britain's prime policy . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 283
On British–Italian interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Condemns Germany's unilateral repudiation of
Versailles Treaty . . . . 86
On French National Committee of Liberation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Idea of revenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 126
Italian withdrawal from Spain . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 144
The League on Palestine . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 129
League sanctions against Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
"Quarantine" speech . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Resignation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 144
On Rival ideologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 116
On Sanctions against Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Egypt:
Constitution of 1923 restored . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 78
Diplomatic rupture with Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Member of the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Treaty of friendship with Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Egypt–Saudi–Arabia treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Egypt–Thailand diplomatic rupture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
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Page
Eisenhower,
General:
Commander of United States forces in European areas
. . . . . . . . . . 334
Commander in Chief of Allied forces in north Africa
. . . . . . . . . . 355
Italy's surrender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 361
El
Alamein (Egypt), battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Emergency
Consultative Committee of Political Defense
. . . . . . . . . . 372
Estonia:
Incorporated into Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Nonaggression pact with Germany . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 192
Signed Kellogg-Briand Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Suppression
of a coup d'état . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Estonian–Russian:
Conciliation pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 16
Mutual
assistance pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Nonaggression treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Ethiopia:
Accepts Committee of Five's proposals . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 71
Agreed on a neutral zone in Ogaden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Appealed to League Committee of Thirteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Appeal to the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 57, 68, 88, 90
Appeal to United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 66
Asked for arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 57
Asked the League Council to consider the dispute in
special session . . 58
Complaint to the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 61
Consented to arbitrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Declared war on the Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Desired to arbitrate frontier question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
General mobilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Italian conquest
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Placed under Italian sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Protest to the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 52
Requested League's financial aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Requested for neutral observers . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 65, 71
Signed United Nations Declaration . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 364
Ethiopian–Italian fighting at Walwal. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 52
Ethiopian–Italian joint communiqué on nonaggression
. . . . . . . . . . 51
F
Far
Eastern Advisory Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Far
Eastern Committee (of the League) . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Farinacci,
Roberto, Fascist Party secretary . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Fascist
Grand Council, resolution on control of foreign trade . . . . . . 83
Fatherland
front in Austria . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Faulhaber,
Michael Cardinal von . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Fighting
France, repudiated Munich Pact . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Finland:
Allied aid .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Appeal to the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Appeal to world for help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Asked conciliation or arbitration with Russia . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 225
Attacked by Russia
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
British demand
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Counterproposals to Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Declared her neutrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 212
Invaded by Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 226
Invited to conference by Russia . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 219
Kellogg–Briand Pact signed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Mobilized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 220
Memorandum to the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Neutrality to be respected by Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Payment of war debts to United States . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 31
Refused military base to Russia . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 223
Rejected new Russian demands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
$10,000,000 credit by United States . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 227
Will continue to fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Finnish
soviet, set up by Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
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Page
Finnish–German
trade agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Finnish–Norwegian–Swedish
defensive alliance contemplated . . . .
. . . . 232
Finnish–Russian
agreement on Aaland Islands . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 258
Finnish–Russian:
negotiations broken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Finnish–Russian:
nonaggression treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 42
Denounced by Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 225
Finnish–Russian
peace treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Five–Power
Committee for Italo–Ethiopian dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Five–Power
conference (Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy) . . . 100
Flandin,
Pierre Etienne Premier of France . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Forbes,
W. C., United States Ambassador in Tokyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Formose,
French vessel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Forster,
Albert, Nazi Gauleiter . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Made head of Danzig State . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 202
Four–power
conference at Munich . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Four–Power
Pact in Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Four
freedoms enunciated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Franc,
devaluated . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
France:
Abandoned sanctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 96
Accepted German economic collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Airforce expansion
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Anglo–American declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Appeal to the League on German rearmament . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 59
Appeal to the United States for help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Armistice with Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245, 246
Armistice with Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Arms embargo to Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 100
Assurance given to England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Bank rates raised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 63
Cabinet rule by decree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Declared war on Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 214
Diplomatic rupture with Great Britain . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 249
Diplomatic rupture with Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Diplomatic rupture with United States . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 347
Direct German .Polish negotiation urged . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 205
Extension of conscript service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
General strike
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Independence at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Italian danger
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Last warning to Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 211
Law prohibiting enlistment of volunteers. . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 116
Liberty in naval matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Loyalty to Czechoslovakia and Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
National Council
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
On nonintervention measure in Spain . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 100
North African military facilities not open to the
Axis . . . . . . . . 292
Parliament dissolved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Partial mobilization order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Pledged aid to Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 159
Proposed peace plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 91
Protest to Germany on Lorraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Rebuked by Roosevelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Respect for Belgian neutrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Supported British partition proposal of
Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . 62
Treaty with Syria providing independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Ultimatum to Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
United States on French fleet . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 245
Urged Poland to conciliate Danzigers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Weakened position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 160
Withdrawal of restrictions on gold deliveries . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 119
Yielded Shanghai sector to Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Francois
Poncet, Andre, French Ambassador in Berlin
. . . . . . . . . . . 116
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Page
Franco,
Gen. Francisco Beginning of civil war in Spain . . . . . . . . . . 99
Forming the Spanish traditional Falangists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Made commander in chief of Nationalist Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Proposed belligerent rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Recognized by Austria and Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Recognized by Germany and Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Recognized by Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Recognized by United States . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 184
Franco-Mussolini
conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 270
Frank,
Dr. Bans, Bavarian Minister of Justice
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
26
Free
France Committee and United States . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 316
Free
France declared war on Japan . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Free
French forces, United States aid promised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Free
French government formed . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Free
French National Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
French
Antilles, and United States relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
French
Committee of .National Liberation, recognized by Great Britain,
Russia, and United States . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 361,365
French
Consultative Assembly in Algiers . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
French
Fleet:
Scuttled at Toulon
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Sunk at Oran
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Trench
Indochina, given dominion status . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
French
Indochina-Thailand .
Armistice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 270
Peace treaty
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
French-Belgian
general staff agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
French-British
peace efforts, defended by Hoare . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 77
French-German
defensive peace postponed . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 172
French-German
good neighbor pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
French-Italian:
Trade agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 231
Treaty . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
French-Japanese agreement on Indochina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
French-Japanese
protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
French-Russian:
Consultative
pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 52
Mutual assistance pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Nonaggression and conciliation pact . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 21
French-Soviet Pact, incompatible with Locarno pact.
. . . . . . . . . . 83
French-Spanish
frontier closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
French-Turkish:
Agreement
on Turco-Syrian frontier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Defensive alliance
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Treaty of friendship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Frick,
Dr. Wilhelm, German Minister of Interior
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Fulbright
resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Funk,
Dr. Walter, German economic minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Furanghi,
Ali, Premier of Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
G
Gas
warfare, condemned by the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Gaulle,
Gen. Charles de:
Appeal to French
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Broadcast to the French . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 350
Free French .Russian alliance . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 315
Frenchmen
in North . Africa . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Geneva Convention, President Roosevelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Geneva
Convention of 1864 . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Geneva
Disarmament Conference (1932) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Germany s withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
George,
King II of Greece . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
German
battleships: escape of . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
German
colonies, Australia rejects return of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
German
National Socialist Party in Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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German
Nationalist Party in Danzig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
German
Nazis, deportation from Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
German
refugees, international aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
German
reparations payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
German-Danish
nonaggression treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
German-Italian
trade agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
German-Italian-Japanese:
Alliance . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Military convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 315
German-Japanese
Anti-Comintern:
Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 115
Military alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 111
German-Polish:
Agreement on Upper Silesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Declaration of 1934 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 188
Minorities declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
German-Rumanian
economic agreement . . . . . . . . . .
. . 182, 201, 228, 235, 334
German-Russian:
Agreement on partitioning Poland . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 217
Barter agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 267
5-year nonaggression plan . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 195
Neutrality treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 28
Nonaggression agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 202
Trade treaty
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
German-Slovak
treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
German-Swedish
agreement on transit of soldiers . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 364
German-Turkish:
Financial agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 168
Friendship Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 285
Trade Agreements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Treaty on chrome
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Germany:
Absence from nine-power conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Agitation for colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Air force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 57
Annexed Polish territory. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 222
Announcement of moratorium on Dawes-Young plan . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Army maneuvers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Arrest of Polish Jews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 168
Assurance of non-delivery of arms to Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Citizenship laws
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Claim equality of armaments . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 50
Claim to equality recognized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Communications cut with Warsaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Compulsory military service introduced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Condemned by Locarno Powers for reoccupying
demilitarized zone. . . . . 86
Conscript labor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 155
Counter-blockaded Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 216
Declared war on United States . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 310
Demands accepted by Austria . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 143
Desire for peace
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Eastern Nonaggression Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 26
End of Polish campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 218
Enforcement of arms embargo to Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
For bilateral naval agreement with Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
For demilitarized zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 85
For 25 year nonaggression pact with France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Foreign policy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
4-year plan for autarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Friendship with Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Invasion of Poland
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Most-favored-nation agreement with France . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 126
National Socialist Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Naval program
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Naval treaty with Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
388
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Germany-Continued. Page
19-point peace plan proposed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Nonaggression offer rejected by Finland, Norway, and
Sweden . . . . . . 190
Nonaggression pact with Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Not a peaceful country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Occupation of Rhineland . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 85
Ordered troop concentration . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 161
Polish frontier and military incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Protest against League Council as discriminating
against Germany . . . 61
Protest on French-Soviet pact . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 83
Protest to Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 200
Rearmament .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Refugees . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Refusal to join Russia to guarantee Baltic
countries . . . . . . . . . 42
Refusal to return to the League . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 139
Reichsmark export prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Rejected an eastern Locarno pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Rejected British ultimatum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Rejected United States note on hemispheric
solidarity . . . . . . . . . 248
Restoration of colonial possessions . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 103
Social Democratic Party outlawed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Spartan spirit among German youth . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 32
At Stresa Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Took over unoccupied France . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 348
Trade relations with Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 156
Unilateral repudiation disapproved by the
powers . . . . . . . . . . . 60
United States Ambassador's recall . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 170
War against bolshevism "a European
mission" . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
34
Withdrawal from disarmament conference of
Geneva . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Withdrawal from the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Would sink armed merchantmen without warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Gilbert, Prentiss, United States consul at
Geneva . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7
Gilbert and Ellice Islands, United States attack . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 345
Giral, Jose, resignation of his government in
Spain . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Giraud, General:
Commander in chief of French forces in Africa . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 349,352
In Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 357
Godesburg demands, rejected by Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Goebbels, Josef, German Propaganda Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Goering, Field Marshal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 172
Not, satisfied with Danzig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Successor to Hitler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 211
Goga, Octavian, Premier of Rumania . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 145
Gold bloc agreement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Gold standard:
Abandonment by United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
International restoration . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 33
Gombös, Julius, Premier of Hungary . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 63
Gondra Pact of 1923
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Good-neighbor policy, United States dedication . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 25
Good offices:
Offered by Belgium and the Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Offered by United States to Russia and Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . 225, 240
Graf
Spee Battle of .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Grandi, Count Dino, Italian Ambassador in
London . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Great Britain:
Aid pledged to Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 286
Appeasement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 117
Arms embargo to Ethiopia and Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66, 68
Assurance of support to France and Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109, 123
Declared state of war against Germany . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 213
Declared war on Finland Hungary, and Rumania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Declared war on Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 308
Determined to fight alone . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 245
Devoted to the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 74
Embargoed Russian goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 28
Enactment of arms embargo . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 102
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Great Britain-Continued. Page
Fleet in eastern Mediterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
For oil embargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 84
Increased armament program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Last warning to Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 211
Memorandum to League Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Neutrality in Spanish civil war . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 100
No action taken in the Mediterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Not hostile to Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Off the gold standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 5
Offer of compensation for Ethiopia to Italy . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 66
Offer to France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 244
Order in council on control of German exports . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 224
Payment of war debts to United States . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 31
Plan on independent Palestine state . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 190
Protest against German troops at Cadiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Refused Russian call for a conference . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 150
Regrouping of powers, resented by Germany . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 193
Search for support of countries interested in peace
. . . . . . . . . . 190
Suggested strict control of arms shipment to
Spain . . . . . . . . . . 107
Supported Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 243
Ultimatum to Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Virtually blockaded Germany . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 216
Voluntary service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 176
Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Great
Powers and aggression . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Great
Powers and battleships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Great
Wall of China . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Greater
East, Asia, Japan's new policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Greco-Turkish
treaty of friendship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Greece:
Attacked by Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 276
Attacked by Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 260
Armistice with Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
British withdrawal
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Coup d'état . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 73
German-Italian demands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Monarchy favored by plebiscite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Monarchy reestablished by coup d'état . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 73
Peaceful relations assured by Italy . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 243
Promise to Italy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Threatened by Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 249
Greenland:
Defense of .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
United States consulate . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 236
Greenwood, Arthur, on study of post-war problems . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 267
Greer,
United States destroyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 297, 311
Greiser, Arthur President of Danzig Senate . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 67, 97
Protest to Polish government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Grew Joseph, United States Ambassador in Tokyo . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 18
On American resentment of Japanese in China . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 21
Dispatch . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 128
On Japan's intentions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 54
Report on German-Japanese military alliance . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 111
Warns Hull on Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 255, 302, 304
Gromyko, Andrea A., Russian Ambassador in Washington
. . . . . . . . . . . 365
Grosny oil fields (Caucasus) . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 340
Guadalcanal, Battle of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 348
Guadaloupe, French warships immobilized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Guatemala, withdrawal from the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Guseff, Fyodor, Russian Minister in Canada . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 344
H
Haakon VII, King of Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 234-235
Habicht, Theodore:
And the Austrian Nazis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Demands restoration of Austrian Nazi Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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Hacha, Emil, President of Czechoslovakia . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 179
Hague Convention, Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Haile Selassie:
Emperor of Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 93
Fled the country
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Regained Ethiopian throne . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 280
Haiti:
Agreement with United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Decided to abandon sanctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Dispute with Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 136
United States marines, withdrawal . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 48
Halfaya Pass, captured by British . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Halifax, Lord:
British Ambassador in Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
On Anglo-French-Polish plan for consultation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
On armed German aggression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
On British determination to resist aggression . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 194
On British interests in central. and eastern Europe
. . . . . . . . . . 119
And Georges Bonnet
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
And Henderson on Hitler's ultimatum . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 208
On loss of Austrian State . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 148
Rejected German peace offer . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 251
Urged Poland to conciliate Danzigers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199, 201
0n victory of peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 154
Halsey, Admiral A. F., succeeds Admiral Ghormley . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 345
Hankow:
Bombing of Chinese troops . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 126
Japanese marines landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Hart, Admiral, United States naval commander in
Southwest Pacific . . . . 319
Hare-Hawes-Cutting Philippine independence bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Harriman, A. A., new United States Ambassador in
Moscow . . . . . . . . . 368
Harrison, Leland, United States Minister to
Switzerland, and meetings of
Far Eastern Committee of the League . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 130, 131
Hatay Republic, cession to Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Hayashi, Gen. Senjuro, Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
117, 121
Hayes, Carlton J. H.:
United States Ambassador in Madrid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Report on United States export to Spain . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 356
Helfrich, Admiral C. E. L., commander of the Dutch
Navy . . . . . . . . . 319
Helsinki bombed by Soviet planes . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 287
Henderson, Sir Neville, British Ambassador in
Berlin:
"Ambassador of appeasement" . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
On delaying the war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 192
And Goering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 191
On proposal far Sudeten . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 157
Warned Germany
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159, 190, 201
Henlein,
Konrad:
Sudeten German leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 148
Broke off negotiations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Rejected liberty charter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Henry Pu-Yi, Provisional President of Manchukuo. . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 14
Henry-Haye, Gaston, French Ambassador in Washington.
. . . . . . . . . . . 262
Hertzog, Gen. J. B. M., Premier of South African
Union . . . . . . . . . . 120
Hess, Rudolf, successor to Hitler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Hevia, Carlos, Provisional President of Cuba . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 39
Heydrich, Reinhard, Gestapo official murdered in
Czechoslovakia . . . . . 331
Hindenburg, Paul von:
President of Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 48
Suspended bill of rights in Weimar Constitution . .
. . . . . . . . . . 25
Hiranuma, Baron Hiichiro, Premier of Japan . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 175
Hirota, Koki:
Japan's foreign minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
On Japan's cultural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 81
On Japan's foreign policy . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 55
On Japan's intentions in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 128
Statement to Secretary Hull . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 40
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Page
Hitler, Adolf:
Head of National Socialist Party in Germany . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 18
On absence of French-German conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84, 205
Agreed to negotiate dispute with Poland . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 208
Announcement, of 4-year plan for German . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 104
Approval of his foreign policy by German people . .
. . . . . . . . . . 89
Assumed command of German Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Assurance given to Francois-Poncet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
His blood purge of 1934 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 48
On Britain's attack of Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
His claim of colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 117,137,176
Confirming as Chancellor and Fuehrer by
plebiscite . . . . . . . . . . 48
Compulsory military service introduced in Germany .
. . . . . . . . . . 57
Demanded Danzig and the Corridor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Demands on Austria
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Demanded self-determination for the Sudetens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144, 161
Entry into Vienna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 147
Forecast on pacific policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
On French-German territorial dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
On French-Soviet military alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
On German acceptance of the Locarno spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
0n Germany's need for colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
On Germany's will to peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
To Henderson on Danzig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
On inevitability of war . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 206
Invited Chamberlain, Daladier, and Mussolini to
Munich . . . . . . . . 166
Named his successors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
On new European order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 269
Not warned by French and Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
On oppression of Sudeten Germans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Ordered expansion of armaments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Ordered march into Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Peace offer to Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Pledged to protect the British . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Proclamation to the German Army . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 210
Rejected Roosevelt's appeal . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 187
Renounces war except against, Bolshevism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Reply to Chamberlain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
On return of Danzig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 175
On revision of Versailles Treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
On Stalingrad losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Succeeded to the Reich Presidency . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 48
Ultimatum on Sudeten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Wanted peace or war of destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
On war aims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 211
On wealth and resources of Urals and the
Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . 104
His withdrawal from the League and disarmament
conference . . . . . . . 36
Hitler-Franco conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 259
Hitler-Laval conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259, 348, 352
Hitler-Mussolini conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257, 269, 283, 295, 327
Hitler-Ribbentrop-Ciano conference . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 200
Hoare, Sir Samuel:
British foreign minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
On Britain's devotion to the League . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 70, 74
On British budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 199
On British Fleet movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
On British problems in the Mediterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Defense of French-British peace efforts . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 77
On Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 66
On Germany at the Stresa Conference . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 66
Resignation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 80
On sanctions against Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Hoare-Laval peace plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 78
Defended by British Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Denounced by Ethiopia and rejected by Italy . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 78, 79
In the League Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
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Hodza, Milan:
Premier of Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 151
Resignation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 163
Honduras, notice of withdrawal from the League . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 97
Hoover, Herbert, President of the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Hoppenot, M., Administrator of Martinique and
Guadaloupe . . . . . . . . . 63
Hore-Belisha, Leslie, British Secretary of War . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 46
Horinouchi, Kensuke:
Japanese Ambassador in Washington . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 196
On Anti-Comintern Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
On Netherlands Indies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 239
Protested to United States on gasoline embargo . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Hsueh-liang, Marshall Chang, ruler of Manchuria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Hull, Cordell:
Secretary of State
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Advocated lend-lease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
On America's preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 260
Approval of embargo on arms to Bolivia and Paraguay
. . . . . . . . . . 45
On Argentina
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Asked congressional committees for arms embargo law
. . . . . . . . . . 28
On citizens' sacrifice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Concern over Shanghai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 127
Condemned French collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Counterproposal to Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
On dangers of the international situation . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 43
Defended United States neutrality and embargo . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 153
Denounced isolationism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
On economic collapse of Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Explained Monroe Doctrine . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 248
On fear of war
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
On Finland's aims and policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
300, 306
On fundamental principles . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 149, 158
On the futility of war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
On German-Italian-Japanese alliance . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 256
On imposed peace
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
On Japan's interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
On joint sanctions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Letter of Hirota
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
On Martinique arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
On national unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 255
On Netherlands Indies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 235
On neutrality and Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
On neutrality revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
On peace . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Reminded Italy and Ethiopia of their Kellogg-Briand
Pact obligations . 70
Repeated warnings on danger from Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Report to Congress
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
On Russian reply to United States and its rejection
. . . . . . . . . . 69
On sale of planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 155
On settling international disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Statement on international problems . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 125
Statement to League Coordination Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
On threat of war
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
On traditional American policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
On United States and the League . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 131
On United States moral embargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
On United States need of naval program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
On United States Neutrality Act . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 76
On United States rights to international law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
On United States-French common interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
On United States-League cooperation in enforcing
sanctions . . . . . . 73
Urged arming American-flag ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Warned Army
and Navy officials on Japan . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Warned his Cabinet colleagues on Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
On ways of peace
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Hungarian-Yugoslav:
Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 48
Friendship pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 265
INDEX 393
Page
Hungary:
Adhered to the Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 263
Declared war on Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Deportation of nationals from Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Diplomatic rupture with the United States . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 311
Minority rights in Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 163
Mobilized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 168
Reassurance of frontiers by Hitler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
I
Iberian bloc (Spain-Portugal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Iceland:
Asked for direct relation with United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Consular relation with United States
established . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Occupied by British troops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Occupied by United States . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 289
Relations with United States and Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Severed ties with Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 282
Suspended royal, power of the King of Denmark . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 234
United States on Iceland's defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Imperial Conference of 1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.
9
On economic appeasement . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 121
Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 17
India:
Declared war on Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Government reorganization . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 336
New Constitution offered after the war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Provisional autonomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Rejected British proposal of autonomy . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 325
United States exchange of representatives . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 289
Indochina:
French-Japanese agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 256
Japanese military control . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 289
Status quo .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Inönü, Ismet:
President of Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 261
On length of war
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Inter-Allied Conference in London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Inter-American Commission for Territorial
Administration . . . . . . . . . 314
Inter-American Conference At Buenos Aires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Inter-American Conference At Habana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251,
252
Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of
Peace . . . . . . . . . . 112
Inter-American Conference on Hemispheric
Solidarity . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Inter-American Defense Board . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 324
Inter-American Emergency Advisory Committee for
Political Defense . . . . 325
Inter-American Financial and Economic Advisory
Committee . . . . . . . . . 279, 296
Inter-American Solidarity Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
International control of rivers, denounced by
Germany . . . . . . . . . . 109
International Red Cross and murdered Polish officers
. . . . . . . . . . . 358
International Labor Office:
Italy's withdrawal
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
United States membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
International trade, League's recommendation to
reduce obstructions . . . 106
International Wheat Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
International Wheat Trade Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 36
Inukai, Tsuyoshi, Premier of Japan, assassinated . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 16
Iran:
Accepted Anglo-Russian armistice terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Anglo-Russian note on German activities . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 294
Anglo-Russian occupation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Declared war on Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 341
Departure of Axis diplomats . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 297
Signed United Nations Declaration . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 366
Iran-Japanese diplomatic rupture . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 25
Iran-Vichy diplomatic rupture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
394 INDEX
Iraq:
Page
Border dispute with Persia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
British fighting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278,280
Declared war on the Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Diplomatic rupture with Germany . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 215
Membership in the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Pro-Nazi coup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 275
Rebel government recognized by Russia . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 281
Signed United Nations Declaration . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 358
Iraqi-Russian
diplomatic relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Irish
Free State constitution . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Iron
Guard in Rumania . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Isolation,
denounced by Hull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Italian
fleet surrendered . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Italo-Ethiopian
affairs, conference of the powers . . .
. . . . . . . . . 66
Italo-Ethiopian
Arbitration Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Italo-Ethiopian
dispute and British-Italian conflict . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Italo-Ethiopian
Treaty of 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Italo-Ethiopian
war, its termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Italo-German
military alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Italo-German
rejection of proposal:
To control volunteers to Spain: . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 116
Of mediation in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 112
Italo-Yugoslav
treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 119
Italy:
Abandoned gold standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 66
Advocated war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 242
Agreed with Ethiopia on neutral zone in Ogaden . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Announced its neutrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Application of sanctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Asked for ban on moral solidarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Blockade ordered by Britain . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 243
British offer on Ethiopia rejected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Claims . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Consented to arbitrate the Ethiopian dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Control of raw material purchased . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 67
Declared aggressor by the League Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Declared war on Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 369
Declared war on Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Declared war on United States . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 310
Demands made on Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Devaluation of lira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 105
Economic sanctions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Emergency fiscal measures . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 68
Further armament program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Intervention in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 158
Invaded by the Allies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 366
Irredentism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 171
Issued joint communiqué with Ethiopia on
nonaggression . . . . . . . . 51
Levy on stock companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 134
Martial law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 364
Mediterranean "antipiracy" patrol . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132, 136
Mobilized against Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Mobilization order issued . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 205
Pact of friendship, nonaggression, and neutrality
with Russia . . . . . 34
Payment of war debts to United States . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 31
Pledge to Britain on Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Protest against sanctions . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 76
Protest of Ethiopia over Walwal incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Protest to United States on Italo-Ethiopian war . .
. . . . . . . . . . 77
Refused to arbitrate the Walwal incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Refused to sign naval agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Rejected compromise on Italo-Ethiopian dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Surrendered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 366
United States consulates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
United States military attaché . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Use of gas in Ethiopian war . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 88
INDEX
395
Italy-Continued.
Page
Violated the League Covenant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Withdrawal from the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Withdrawal of volunteers from Spain . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 119
J
Japan:
Absent from Nine Power Conference . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 134, 136
Her aims . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Attack on American and British warships on the Yangtze . . . . . . . . 139
Blockaded British and French concessions in
Shanghai . . . . . . . . . 193
Cabinet reorganized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 306
Counterproposal to United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Demands on China
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64, 65
Demands on Indochina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Intentions questioned by United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Invaded Charhar and Jehol . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 55
Invaded demilitarized zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
In Indochina, denounced by United, States . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 290
Naval building program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142, 143
On new order in Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
New proposals by United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Notice of withdrawal from the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Offensive against Peiping and Tientsin begun . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Opposed to any, aid given to China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Opposed to foreign intervention in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Opposed to open door in China . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 171
Proposal on United States-Japanese settlement . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 281
Protest on German-Russian Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Protest to United States on gasoline embargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Refused to deal with Chinese Government . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 141
Sought release from provisions of Washington Naval
Treaty . . . . . . . 54
As stabilizing force in the Far East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Urged Roosevelt-Konoye meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Use of gas in warfare condemned by the League . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 154
Violator of the Nine-Power Treaty . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 132
Withdrawal from the League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Japanese-Americans
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Japanese-Russian
Fisheries Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Japanese-Thailand
Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Java,
conquered by Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Java
Sea Battle of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Johnson,
N. T., United States Minister to China
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Johnson
Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Justo,
Augustin P., President of Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
K
Kai-shek,
Gen. Chiang, President of China . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Appealed to Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 320
Kidnapped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 112
President of the Executive Yuan in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Visited India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 319
Kai-shek,
Madame Chiang:
Address to United States Congress . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 356
On post-war world council . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 358
Kalinin,
President of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics Praesidium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Kanya,
Koloman de, Hungarian foreign minister
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
95
Karlsbad
demands (of Sudetens) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Karlsbad
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Kato
agreement (between France and Japan) .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Katsuriki,
Japanese minelayer . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Kauffman,
Henrik, Danish Minister in Washington .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Kearney,
United States destroyer, attacked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Kellogg-Briand
Pact:
Its acceptance by civilized states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Aggression defined
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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INDEX
Kennard,
Sir Howard: Page
British Ambassador in Warsaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Report to Halifax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 211
Kehl
demilitarized zone occupied by Nazis .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Kerrl,
Dr. Hans, German Minister of Justice .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Kharkov
retaken by Russians . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Kiel
Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Kiev,
retaken by Russians . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
King,
Admiral E. J.,
Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 322
King,
Mackenzie, Premier of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
King
of Italy, also Emperor of Ethiopia . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Kiosseivanov,
M., Premier of Bulgaria . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 172
Kiska,
United States and Canadian landings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Knox,
Col. Frank, Secretary of Navy . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Konoye,
Prince Fumimaro:
Premier of Japan
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Forecast war with United States . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 257
Invited President Roosevelt for a meeting . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 275
On mediation of Sino-Japanese dispute . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 137
On new order in Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Koo,
Dr. Wellington:
Chinese delegate on the League Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
At Nine-Power Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Krofta,
Kamil:
Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Rejected Sudeten demands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Kurusu,
Saburo, Japanese foreign office spokesman
. . . . . . . . . . . . 80
And President Roosevelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 303
"Surrender or fight United States"
statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Kursk,
retaken by Russians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
L
Labor
conscription in Germany . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Lacroix,
French Minister in Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Lashio
(Burma), capture by Japanese . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Latin
America, United States right of intervention is renounced . . . . .
37
Latvia:
Incorporated into Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Kellogg-Briand Pact signed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Nonaggression agreement with Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Payment of war debts to United States . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 31
Ultimatum by Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 244
Latvian-Russian
Conciliation Pact . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 16
Latvian-Russian
Mutual Aid Treaty . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 219
Latvian-Russian
Nonaggression Treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Lausanne
Treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Laval,
Pierre, Premier of France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Dismissed by Pétain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 265
On French loyalty to the League Covenant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Given more powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 349
On sanctions against Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
League
of Nations:
Advisory committee on arms embargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
On Alexandretta dispute (France and Turkey) . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 111
Appeal to Russia on Russo-Finnish dispute . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 226, 228
Application of sanctions against Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Asked ABC Powers and Peru to join Chaco
Commission . . . . . . . . . . 33
On Chaco dispute
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 33, 35, 36, 41, 44, 52, 55
Commission of Inquiry for Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Commission of Inquiry for Manchuria . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 9, 12
Committee of Eighteen on oil sanctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79, 82, 84
Committee of oil experts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Committee of Thirteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 91, 93
Committee of Three
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 24
Condemned Japanese air raids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Covenant . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 59, 61, 82
Declared Italy the aggressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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League
of Nations-Continued. Page
Declared Japan the aggressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
On economic sanctions against Italy . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 77
Ethiopian appeal on arms restrictions . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 68
Ethiopian request for financial aid . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 89
Far Eastern Advisory Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Five-Power Commission on Italo-Ethiopian
dispute . . . . . . . . . . . 69
French withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 358
German occupation of Rhineland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
German rearmament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 61
German refugees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 35
German withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 36
High Commissioner for Danzig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Hungarian appeal
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
On Iraqi-Persian border dispute . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 52
Italo-Ethiopian Arbitration Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66, 67
On Leticia dispute (Colombia and Peru) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 26, 30, 32
On mandated areas . . . . . . .