Roosevelt (139 page)

Philippines Independence Act of 1934,
378

Phillips, William,
62
,
380

Pinchot, Gifford,
511

Pisa,
479

Pius XII, Pope,
152

“Plan Dog,”
85
,
179

Plan Position Indicator,
346

Plays, wartime,
271

PM
,
53
,
307
,
431

Pogue, Forrest,
85

Poland: as bellwether of Communist ambitions,
572
; border problems,
187
,
360
,
361
,
365
,
372
,
413
,
483
,
536
,
569-572
,
583
; and Churchill,
534-535
,
536
,
537
,
558
,
569
,
570-572
,
583-584
; cleavage between Russia and the West over,
558
; conquest of, by Ger­many,
15
,
68
,
80
,
93
; elections,
571
,
572
,
573
; and Germany,
15
,
68
,
80
,
85
,
93
,
483
,
534-535
,
536
,
569
,
570
,
571
,
575-576
; government-in-exile, in London,
129
,
372
,
413
,
483
,
534
,
536
,
537
,
570
,
571
,
572
; and Great Britain,
570
,
583
; high rate of literacy in,
572
; invaded by Germany,
85
; as issue at Teheran Conference,
412
,
413
,
569
; as issue at Yalta Confer­ence,
558
,
565
,
569-573
,
583
,
584
,
585
; Katyn Forest massacre,
372
; occupation of, by Russia,
483
,
539
,
565
,
569
,
572
; Polish Army,
474
,
571
; provisional government,
483
,
534
,
535
,
536-537
,
560
,
569
,
570
,
571
,
572
,
583
,
584
; as possible target for Allied offensive,
305
; and F.D.R.,
129
,
360
,
372
,
373
,
412
,
413
,
483
,
534-537
,
565
,
569-573
,
583-584
,
585
; and Russia,
187
,
372
,
373
,
374
,
413
,
483
,
534-537
,
539
,
560
,
565
,
569-573
,
575-576
,
583
,
584
; as signatory of Declaration of Allied Unity,
185
; sphere-of-interest problem emerges in,
483
; and Stalin.
187
,
372
,
412
,
413
,
483
,
534-537
,
569
,
570-573
,
575-576
,
583-584
,
587
; Warsaw uprising,
534-535

Policing power.
See
Big Four

Polish-American Congress,
534

Polish-Americans,
112
,
129
,
360
,
372
,
373
,
413
,
483
,
534
,
535
,
569

Polish Committee of National Libera­tion (Warsaw/Lublin Poles),
483
,
534
,
535
,
536
; as provisional govern­ment,
536-537
,
560
,
569
,
570
,
571
,
572
,
583
,
584

Polish Corridor,
571

Political parties, realignment plan,
275-276
,
280
,
511-513
,
608

Port Arthur,
574
,
577

Port Darwin,
223

Port Lyautey,
322

Port Moresby,
225

Portal, Sir Charles,
317
,
368
,
407

Portland, Wash.,
269

Portsmouth,
474

Portugal,
65
,
127
,
179
,
352-353
,
393

Portuguese West Africa,
397

Poston (internment camp),
267

Postwar world security policy,
357
,
366
,
409
,
427-429

Potomac
(presidential yacht),
125
,
132
,
199
,
254
,
402

Potomac River,
24
,
605

Pound, Sir Dudley,
128
,
317
,
368

Powell, Adam Clayton,
533

PQ-18 (convoy),
310

Pravda
,
229

Price control,
116
,
196-197
,
257-258
,
259
,
340-341
,
468

Prince of Wales
, H.M.S.,
12
,
125
,
126
,
128
,
131
,
175
,
203

Prisoners of war,
232
,
391

Proclamation of unlimited national emergency,
101

Production: and aid to Great Britain,
24-25
; American effort toasted by Stalin,
411
; conflict with labor,
117
; conversion to war production,
118
; creation of agencies,
116-117
; crisis of,
193
,
333
; effort called for in F.D.R.’s “arsenal of democracy” speech,
28
,
29
; goals,
190
,
246-249
,
306
; husbanding of resources,
494
; and labor,
53-56
.
465
; lagging badly,
118
,
192-194
,
245-246
; material shortages,
52
; military airplanes,
333
; mobilization of resources,
51-53
; munitions,
28
; NDAC advisors,
51
; no unified program,
272
,
332
; F.D.R. on,
333-334
; Senate committee in­vestigating,
118-119
,
193
,
339
; short­ages of essential munitions,
118
; soars,
460
; unity of effort,
271
,
272-273
,
467-472
.
See also
Budget; Labor; Manpower; Shipbuilding

Profiteering,
424
,
467

Propaganda,
385-388

Prussia,
96
,
365
,
565
,
570

Psychological warfare.
See
Propaganda

Public opinion: and aid to Great Britain,
132-133
; defeatism and fatalism,
66
; and international issues,
559
; in 1941,
40-43
; optimism about the war,
469
; pessimistic attitude to defeat in Pacific,
209-213
; F.D.R. attempts to gauge,
98
; F.D.R. and public opinion polls,
607
; F.D.R. shows his usual respect for,
152
; spirit of unity sweeps U.S. after Pearl Harbor,
176
; and war aims,
467-468

Puerto Rico,
378

Pyle, Ernie,
471

Quebec Conference (first),
389
,
391-393
,
397
,
398
,
399
,
457
; (second),
458
,
518-521
,
543

Queen Mary
, S.S.,
368
,
391
,
469

Quezon, Manuel,
206
,
208
,
209
,
216
,
379
,
489

Quincy
, U.S.S.,
565
,
578
,
579
,
580

Rabat,
321

Rabaul,
160
,
382
,
444
,
486

Racial intolerance, viii,
275
,
497
,
498
,
512
,
529-530
.
See also
Black Ameri­cans; Japanese-Americans; Jews; Mexican-Americans

Radar systems,
345

Radiation laboratory, MIT,
346

Radio Corporation of America,
264

Radio proximity fuse,
345

Raeder, Erich,
16
,
69
,
105
,
106
,
141
,
142
,
243

Railroad crisis,
195-196
,
338
,
354
,
422

Railway Labor Act,
338

Randolph, A. Philip,
123
,
124

Randolph Field.
270

Rangoon,
209
,
219
,
268
,
375

Rankin, John,
216
,
421
,
431
,
437

Rapido River,
438

Rastenburg,
282

Ratcliffe, S. K.,
497

Rationing,
258-259
,
461
,
468

Rayburn, Sam,
40
,
120
,
164
,
261
,
433
,
456
,
504

Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
25
,
341

Red Army.
See
Russia: German in­vasion

Red Cross,
372
,
514

Red Network, The
(Dilling),
48
,
453

Red Star
,
97

Refugee Board.
See
War Refugee Board

Refugees,
396
,
441-442

Regensburg,
445

Reid, Mrs. Ogden,
277

Reilly, Mike,
268
,
269
,
317
,
320
,
322
,
406
,
508
,
509
,
564
,
578

“Relief, Recovery, and Reform,”
53

Religion: freedom of religion clause, Declaration of Allied Unity,
183-184
;

religious intolerance in the U.S.,
529-530

Remember Pearl Harbor
(film),
271

“Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews” (Paul),
441

Reprisal
(Vance),
272

Republic, The
,
516

Republican National Committee,
275
; Chairman of,
176

Republican party: coalition of, with Southern and conservative Democrats,
37
,
40
,
305
,
421
,
534
; coalition of liberals of, with Democratic liberals,
275-276
,
279
,
280
,
511-512
,
513
,
608
; collaboration of, with Democratic party in Congress,
594
; conference of, on Mackinac Island,
400
,
428-429
,
510
; congressional,
37
,
38
,
39
,
280
,
400
,
499
,
500
,
510
,
524
,
526
,
534
,
594
; convention (1942),
275
, (1940),
502
, (1944),
501
,
502
,
510
,
511
; division in,
37-39
; election of 1936,
38
; election of 1940,
36
,
502
; election of 1942,
274-281
,
301
,
502
; election of 1944,
400
,
498-503
,
507
,
509-513
,
522-524
,
525
,
526
,
527-530
,
532
,
533-534
; internationalist mem­bers of, favor postwar security organ­ization,
358
,
400
,
427
,
428-429
,
510
; members of, as dollar-a-year men,
88
; National Chairman of,
176
; power holders of,
37
,
426
; presiden­tial,
37
,
38
,
39
,
274
,
276
,
280-281
,
358
,
400
,
499
,
502
,
510
,
511
,
513
,
528
; primaries,
499
; and F.D.R.,
7
,
38
,
43
,
122-123
,
279
,
427
,
522-524
,
526
,
527
,
528
,
529
; rumored to be agent in deal for a negotiated peace,
211
; shift of black vote to,
280
; and soldiers’-vote bill,
431
.
See also
Congress; Dewey, Thomas E.; Willkie, Wendell L.

Repulse
, H.M.S.,
175
,
203

Resonant cavity magnetron,
346

Reuben James
, U.S.S.,
148

Reuther, Walter,
193

“Revere, Paul” (radio traitor),
498

Reykjavik,
147

Rheinmetall-Borsig Works,
17
,
66

Rhine River,
518
,
582