The Patriarch (110 page)

28
. Welles to JPK, May 4, 1939, box 174, JPKP.

29
. Mooney, notes on European travel, box 1, Mooney.

30
.
NYT,
Feb. 12, 1939.

31
. JPK to SS, Feb. 27,
FRUS,
1939, 4:718.

32
. SS to JPK, Mar. 2,
FRUS,
1939, 4:722.

33
. Moshe Sharett, “Political Journal of Moshe Sharett,” Feb. 28, 1939, Lavon Institute, Tel Aviv; translation from Hebrew by A. Goren.

34
. Murray, memorandum of conversation, Mar. 17,
FRUS,
1939, 4:732; Welles to JPK, Mar. 19; JPK to SS, Mar. 20,
FRUS,
1939, 4:737–38.

35
. Moore to Burns, Feb. 13, 1939, box 133; Moore to Goldsmith, Feb. 15, Mar. 6, 27, 1939, box 134, JPKP.

36
. Goldsmith to Moore, Apr. 10, 1939, box 134, JPKP.

37
. Sharett, “Political Journal,” Apr. 30, 1939.

38
. Sharett, “Political Journal,” May 1, 1939.

39
. JPK to SS, May 9; FDR to Welles, May 10; JPK to SS, May 11,
FRUS,
1939, 4:748–50.

40
. Mapai report, in Sharett, “Political Journal,” June 14, 1938; Sharett, “Political Journal,” May 11, 1939.

41
. Mapai report, in Sharett, “Political Journal,” June 14, 1939.

42
. Goldman to Weizmann, June 20, 1939, Weizmann.

43
. Zioniburo [London] to AMZO [American Zionist Organization, Washington] A407/130, Szold; JPK to Cohen, May 16, 1939, Szold.

44
. Goldman to JPK, May 17, 1939, Szold.

45
. JPK to Goldman, June 2, 1939, Szold.

46
. British White Paper of 1939, Avalon Project, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century?brwh1939.asp.

47
. Weizmann to Goldman, May 30, 1939, Weizmann.

48
. Goldman to Weizmann, June 20, 1939, Weizmann.

49
.
LAT,
May 8, 1939, 1; Pearson and Allen, July 12, 1939, http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/pearson/pearson.shtml.

50
.
The Week,
May 17, 1939.

51
. Ickes, diary, July 2, 1939;
New Republic,
June 21, 1939, 1.

52
. JPK to Carter, June 13, 1939, box 104, JPKP.

53
. “Reminiscences of Walter Lippmann,” 1950, 183, CUOH.

54
. JPK to SS, July 19, 20,
FRUS,
1939, 1:286–88.

55
. JPK to FDR, July 20, 1939, PSF 37, FDRL.

56
. Arthur Krock, “Why Ambassador Kennedy Is Not Coming Home,”
NYT,
July 18, 1939.

57
. FDR to JPK, July 22, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
353–54.

58
. JPK to FDR, Aug. 9, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
354–55.

59
. JPK to Houghton, Aug. 29, 1939, box 109; REFK, diary, June 13, 1939, box 2, REFKP.

60
. JPK to Houghton, Aug. 31, 1939, box 109, JPKP; Riva, 486–87.

TWENTY: “THIS COUNTRY IS AT WAR WITH GERMANY”

1
. Kirk to SS, Aug. 21, 1939,
FRUS,
1939, 1:337.

2
. JPK to SS, Aug. 23,
FRUS,
1939, 1: 339–42, 355–56.

3
. JPK, diary, Aug. 24, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
356–60; “DM,” 23:5–6, JPKP.

4
. Cordell Hull,
The Memoirs of Cordell Hull
, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1948), 1:662.

5
. JPK to SS, Aug. 25,
FRUS,
1939, 1:369–70.

6
. JPK, diary, Aug. 24, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
356–60.

7
. JPK, “DM,” 23:7–8, JPKP.

8
. JPK, diary, Aug. 24 [25], 1939, Smith,
HTF,
356–60.

9
. JPK to Houghton, Aug. 29, 1939, box 108, JPKP.

10
. Derby to JPK, Aug. 26; JPK to Derby, Aug. 29, 1939, box 106; Morgan to JPK, Aug. 29, 1939, box 112, JPKP.

11
. JPK to SS, Aug. 29,
FRUS,
1939, 1:381–82.

12
. JPK, diary, Aug. 31, 1939, box 100; JPK, “DM,” 33:12–14, JPKP; JPK, Jr., diary Aug. 21, 1939, Smith, 355–56.

13
. JPK, diary, Aug. 30, 1939, box 100; JPK, “DM,” 33:14–15, JPKP.

14
. JPK to SS, Aug. 31,
FRUS,
1939, 1:397–98.

15
. JPK, diary, Aug. 31, 1939, box 100; “DM,” 33:16–17, JPKP; Sidney Aster,
1939: The Making of the Second World War
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974), 371.

16
. Luella Hennessey-Donovan, oral history, Sept. 25, 1991, JFKOHP.

17
. JPK, diary, Sept. 3, 1939, box 100, JPKP.

18
. Chamberlain, Sept. 3, 1939, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/gb2.asp.

19
. JPK, diary, Sept. 3, 1939, box 100, JPKP.

TWENTY-ONE: THE LIVES OF AMERICANS ARE AT STAKE

1
. JPK, “DM,” 34:4, JPKP; JPK to SS, Sept. 3,
FRUS,
1939, 1:595–96.

2
. JPK to Hull, Sept. 8, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
370–71.

3
. Long, diaries, Sept. 7, 1939, box 5, Long.

4
. JKS to JPK, Oct. 3, 1939, box 2, JPKP.

5
. JPK to REFK, Sept. 18, 1939, Smith,
HTF
, 379–80.

6
. Morgenthau, diaries, transcript of telephone conversation, Welles and Morgenthau, Sept. 7, 1939, vol. 209, 43, Morgenthau.

7
. Morgenthau, diaries, transcript of telephone conversation, Morgenthau and JPK, Sept. 11, 1939, vol. 210, 228, Morgenthau.

8
. JPK to FDR, Sept. 10, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
372–74.

9
. JPK to Hull and FDR, Sept. 11, 1939, in Smith,
HTF,
374–76.

10
. SS to JPK, Sept. 11,
FRUS,
1939, 1:424.

11
. James Farley,
Jim Farley’s Story
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948), 198–99.

12
. Winston Churchill,
The Gathering Storm
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948), 440–41.

13
. JPK, diary, Oct. 5, 1939, box 100, JPKP.

14
. JPK, diary, Oct. 6, 1939, box 100, JPKP.

15
. JPK, diary, Sept. 17, 1939, box 100, JPKP.

16
. JPK to SS, Sept. 18,
FRUS,
1939, I:439–40.

17
. JPK to FDR, three letters, Sept. 30, 1939, PSF 37, FDRL.

18
. JPK to LeHand, Oct. 3, 1939, LeHand.

19
. Halifax to Lothian, Oct. 31, 1939, FO 371/22830, NAUK.

20
. All comments above, from FO 371/22827, NAUK.

21
. Peake to Cadogan, Oct. 12, 1939, FO 371/22827, NAUK.

22
.
The Diplomatic Diaries of Oliver Harvey, 1937
–
1940
, ed. John Harvey (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1970), 326.

23
. JPK to REFK, Oct. 2, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
391–92.

24
. JPK to Carter, Nov. 3, 1939, box 104; JPK to Ford, Oct. 26, 1939, box 107, JPKP.

25
. JPK to Reisman, Oct. 3, 1939, box 115, JPKP.

26
. JPK to Ford, Oct. 26, 1939, box 107, JPKP.

27
. Reisman to JPK, Nov. 13, 1939, w.b. 30, JPKP.

28
. JPK to Hays, Nov. 12, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
400; JPK to Cohn, Nov. 17, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
400–401.

29
. JPK to Goldsmith, Nov. 3, 1939, box 108, JPKP.

30
. JPK to Fisher, Oct. 23, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
396–97.

31
. JPK to REFK, Oct. 23, 1939, in author’s possession.

32
. JPK to REFK, Oct. 11, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
393–94.

33
. KKH to JPK, Sept. 26, 1939; EKS to JPK, Nov. 20, n.d; JKS to JPK, n.d., box 2, JPKP.

34
. JPK to PKL, Nov. 3, 1939, box 55, REFKP.

35
. JPK to Burns, Nov. 17, 1939, w.b. 32, JPKP.

36
. REFK to JPK, Oct. 6, 10, 1939, box 2, JPKP; JPK to REFK, Oct. 11, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
393–94.

37
. REFK,
TTR,
137; JPK to REFK, Oct. 11, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
393–94.

38
. EMK,
TC,
26.

39
. JPK to REFK, Oct. 11, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
393–94.

40
. JPK to REFK, Nov. 13, 1939, in author’s possession.

TWENTY-TWO: DEFEATIST

1
.
Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon
, ed. Robert Rhodes James (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), 225; NA to Lothian, Nov. 27, 1939, Astor.

2
. Cabinet minutes, Dec. 11, 1939, CAB 65/50, NAUK.

3
.
WP,
Dec. 7, 1939;
CDT,
Dec. 8, 1939.

4
. JPK, diary, Dec. 10, 1939, Smith,
HTF,
404–6.

5
. Ickes, diary, Dec. 10, 1939, Ickes.

6
. Moffat, Dec. 8, 1939, Moffat.

7
. Minute, Mar. 18, 1940, FO 371/24251, NAUK.

8
. Cabinet minutes, Jan 18–25, 1940, in FO 371/24251; cabinet minutes, Jan. 26, 1940, CAB 65/56, NAUK.

9
.
London Times,
Dec. 12, 1939, in FO 371/22827, NAUK.

10
. Jordan to FDR, Dec. 13, 1939, PPF 207, FDRL.

11
. Alsop and Kintner,
AC,
Dec. 19, 1939.

12
. JPK to REFK, Mar. 14, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
406–8; JPKP, “DM,” 30:1, JPK; CBL, Mar. 4, 5, “Diaries, 1939–40,” box 56, CBLP.

13
. JPK to REFK, Mar. 14, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
406–8.

14
. Von Hofmannsthal to CLB, Mar. 27, 1940, box 96, CBLP.

15
. Minute, Mar. 3, 1940, FO 371/24251, NAUK.

16
. JPK to REFK, Mar. 14, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
408.

17
. Hull,
Memoirs,
1:740.

18
. JPK to REFK, Mar. 20, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
410–11.

19
. REFK to JPK, Mar. 31, 1940, box 2, JPKP.

20
. JKS to JPK, Mar. 25, 1940, box 2, JPKP.

21
. JPK, Jr., to JPK, Mar. 17, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
410.

22
. JFK to JPK, n.d., Smith,
HTF,
417–18.

23
. JPK to JFK, May 20, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
433–35.

24
. JPK to McAdoo, Mar. 31, 1940, box 136, JPKP; CBL, Apr. 2, 3, 1940, “Diaries, 1939–1940,” box 56, CBLP; JPK to REFK, Apr. 5, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
413–15.

25
. JPK to REFK, Apr. 5, 1940, two letters, Smith,
HTF,
413–15.

26
. JPK, diary, Apr. 9, 1940, box 100; “DM,” 42:4, JPKP; Churchill, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1940/apr/11/the-war-at-sea#S5CV0359P0_19400411_HOC_320.

27
. JPK to FDR, Apr. 11, 1940, OF 229, FDRL.

28
. Morgenthau, diaries, Apr. 29, 1940, vol. 258, Morgenthau.

29
. JPK to REFK, Apr. 16, 1940, in author’s possession.

30
. Halifax, diary, Apr. 25, 1940, Halifax.

31
. JPK to Welles, May 8, 1940, RG 59, NAUS.

32
. JPK, diary, May 10, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
423–24; transcript of telephone calls, May 10, 1940, Hull.

33
. Max Hastings,
Winston’s War
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), 22.

34
. Assorted cables between SS and JPK, May 15–June 26,
FRUS,
1940, 2:91–133.

35
. JPK, diary, May 15, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
425–26.

36
. JPK to SS, May 15,
FRUS,
1940, 1: 29–30.

37
.
NYT,
May 17, 1940.

38
. SS to JPK, May 16,
FRUS,
1940, 3:49–50.

39
. Churchill to FDR, May 20, 1940, in
Roosevelt and Churchill
, ed. Francis L. Loewenheim et al. (New York: Dutton, 1975), 97.

40
. Hull,
Memoirs,
1:766.

TWENTY-THREE: THE FALL OF FRANCE

1
. JPK, “DM,” 34:14–15, JPKP.

2
. “Case of Anna Wolkoff, Tyler Kent, and Others,” May 21, 1940, KV2/840; “Transcript of Interrogation of Kent,” May 20, 1940, KV2/543, NAUK.

3
. Warren Kimball and Bruce Bartlett, “Roosevelt and Prewar Commitments to Churchill: The Tyler Kent Affair,”
Diplomatic History
(October 1981): 300.

4
. JPK to Hull, May 20, 1940, RG 84, NAUS, in Ray Bearse and Anthony Read,
Conspirator: The Untold Story of Tyler Kent
(New York: Doubleday, 1991), 160–61.

5
. Long, diaries, May 22, June 6, 12, 1940, Long.

6
. Long, diaries, June 24, 1940, Long.

7
. JPK to Hull, May 24, 1940, RG 84, NAUS.

8
. JPK to REFK, May 20, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
432–33.

9
. JPK to SS, May 27,
FRUS,
1940, 1:233.

10
. Ian Kershaw,
Fateful Choices
(New York: Penguin, 2008), 30–47.

11
. Hull,
Memoirs,
1:771–72.

12
. JPK, “DM,” 35:6–7, JPKP.

13
. John Keegan,
The Second World War
(New York: Penguin, 1990), 80–81.

14
. Churchill, June 4, 1940, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1940/jun/04/war-situation#S5CV0361P0_19400604_HOC_231.

15
. JPK, “DM,” 35:18, JPKP.

16
. JPK to JPK, Jr., June 6, 1940, box 2, JPKP.

17
. JPK to Fisher, June 6, 1940, box 106, JPKP.

18
. JPK to REFK, June 7, 1940, box 2, JPKP.

19
. JPK, diary, June 13, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
439–40.

20
. Bullitt to SS, June 10,
FRUS,
1940, 1:245–46; SS to First Secretary of Embassy in France, June 13,
FRUS,
1940, 1:247–48.

21
. JPK, diary, June 14, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
440–43; War Cabinet minutes, June 13, 1940, CAB/65/7/60, NAUK.

22
. JPK, diary, June 14, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
440–43.