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The Course of World War II Class 4 William A
The Course of World War II Class 4 William A. Reader [email protected] The Nazi-Soviet Pact Hitler on Poland On 28 March 1939, Hitler denounced the 1934 Non-Aggression Pact with Poland and had his military begin preparations for an invasion of Poland Hitler had two problems with Poland • Situated between Germany and Russia, Poland barred the invasion route into Russia • Poland had a large German population and territories that Hitler felt belonged to Germany To ensure the quiet eastern border that Hitler desired for his attack on France, Poland had to subordinate itself to Germany Hitler on Poland - 2 To Hitler, Polish subordination meant • Joining the Anti-Comintern Pact • Ceding Danzig and predominantly-German areas to Germany • Allowing Germany to build a highway across the Polish corridor While Poland was willing to negotiate over Danzig and allow Germany to build a highway across the Polish Corridor, it would not cede territory to Germany nor join the Anti-Comintern Pact This led Hitler to decide on an invasion of Poland • It also led him to seek an agreement with Stalin Stalin’s View of Nazism Stalin saw National Socialism as simply a nastier form of monopoly capitalism – more brutal than the capitalism of the Western democracies but essentially the same • Stalin did not realize that Hitler and the Nazis were racist ideologues committed to expansion eastward and to the replacement of Russians by Germans as the population of Western Russia • What Stalin did not understand was that, under Hitler, Germany’s capitalist and economic -
Academy Award® Winner the Adventures of Robin Hood
ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938) SCREENING SPOTLIGHTS THE PRODUCTION DESIGNS OF CARL JULES WEYL PRESENTED BY THE ART DIRECTORS GUILD FILM SOCIETY AND AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE Sunday, June 28 at 5:30 PM at the Aero Theatre in Hollywood LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2015 - The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Film Society and American Cinematheque will present a screening of Errol Flynn’s swashbuckling adventure fantasy THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938) spotlighting the production design by Academy Award®- winning designer Carl Jules Weyl, as part of the 2015 ADG Film Series on Sunday, June 28, at 5:30 P.M. at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. The ADG “Confessions of a Production Designer” Film Series is sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter. “Welcome to Sherwood, my lady!” Legendary, beloved, much imitated but never surpassed, The Adventures of Robin Hood is pure escapism epitomizing the very best in classical Hollywood matinee adventure storytelling. Rich in its visual imagination, it remains a case study in film design excellence. Inspired by the romantic illustrations of famed illustrator and artist N.C. Wyeth, Carl Jules Weyl’s masterful designs served well this Warner Bros.’ first venture into three-strip Technicolor productions. “The Adventures of Robin Hood remains a fitting tribute to the achievements and talent of this exceptional designer, as well as being a reminder of the many less celebrated but equally gifted masters of design who have left us with a visually-inspired legacy,” said Production Designer Thomas A. Walsh, -
1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR HARRY JOSEPH GILMORE Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: February 3, 2003 Copyright 2012 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born and raised in Pennsylvania Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Mellon University) University of Pittsburgh Indiana University Marriage Entered the Foreign Service in 1962 A,100 Course Ankara. Turkey/ 0otation Officer1Staff Aide 1962,1963 4upiter missiles Ambassador 0aymond Hare Ismet Inonu 4oint US Military Mission for Aid to Turkey (4USMAT) Turkish,US logistics Consul Elaine Smith Near East troubles Operations Cyprus US policy Embassy staff Consular issues Saudi isa laws Turkish,American Society Internal tra el State Department/ Foreign Ser ice Institute (FSI)7 Hungarian 1963,1968 9anguage training Budapest. Hungary/ Consular Officer 1968,1967 Cardinal Mindszenty 4anos Kadar regime 1 So iet Union presence 0elations Ambassador Martin Hillenbrand Israel Economy 9iberalization Arab,Israel 1967 War Anti,US demonstrations Go ernment restrictions Sur eillance and intimidation En ironment Contacts with Hungarians Communism Visa cases (pro ocations) Social Security recipients Austria1Hungary relations Hungary relations with neighbors 0eligion So iet Mindszenty concerns Dr. Ann 9askaris Elin OAShaughnessy State Department/ So iet and Eastern Europe EBchange Staff 1967,1969 Hungarian and Czech accounts Operations Scientists and Scholars eBchange programs Effects of Prague Spring 0elations -
Guide to the John Gunther Papers 1935-1967
University of Chicago Library Guide to the John Gunther Papers 1935-1967 © 2006 University of Chicago Library Table of Contents Descriptive Summary 9 Information on Use 9 Access 9 Citation 9 Biographical Note 9 Scope Note 10 Related Resources 12 Subject Headings 12 INVENTORY 13 Series I: Inside Europe 13 Subseries 1: Original Manuscript 14 Subseries 2: First Revision (Second Draft) 16 Subseries 3: Galley Proofs 18 Subseries 4: Revised Edition (October 1936) 18 Subseries 5: New 1938 Edition (November 1937) 18 Subseries 6: Peace Edition (October 1938) 19 Subseries 7: 1940 War Edition 19 Subseries 8: Published Articles by Gunther 21 Subseries 9: Memoranda 22 Subseries 10: Correspondence 22 Subseries 11: Research Notes-Abyssinian War 22 Subseries 12: Research Notes-Armaments 22 Subseries 13: Research Notes-Austria 23 Subseries 14: Research Notes-Balkans 23 Subseries 15: Research Notes-Czechoslovakia 23 Subseries 16: Research Notes-France 23 Subseries 17: Research Notes-Germany 23 Subseries 18: Research Notes-Great Britain 24 Subseries 19: Research Notes-Hungary 25 Subseries 20: Research Notes-Italy 25 Subseries 21: Research Notes-League of Nations 25 Subseries 22: Research Notes-Poland 25 Subseries 23: Research Notes-Turkey 25 Subseries 24: Research Notes-U.S.S.R. 25 Subseries 25: Miscellaneous Materials by Others 26 Series II: Inside Asia 26 Subseries 1: Original Manuscript 27 Subseries 2: Printer's Copy 29 Subseries 3: 1942 War Edition 31 Subseries 4: Printer's Copy of 1942 War Edition 33 Subseries 5: Material by Others 33 Subseries 6: -
Gilmour on Bennett, 'One World, Big Screen: Hollywood, the Allies, and World War II'
H-War Gilmour on Bennett, 'One World, Big Screen: Hollywood, the Allies, and World War II' Review published on Saturday, June 1, 2013 M. Todd Bennett. One World, Big Screen: Hollywood, the Allies, and World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xiii + 362 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3574-6. Reviewed by Colin Gilmour (McGill University) Published on H-War (June, 2013) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey M. Todd Bennett’s One World, Big Screen opens to the dichotomy of the well-known photograph of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin as a seated trio at the Tehran Conference in 1943, and a lesser-known image of the same scene but from a further vantage point. The crowd of newspapermen and photographers visible in the second image, Bennett notes, speaks to the behind- the-scenes engineering which made possible the temporary unity of the three very different leaders and countries. Like this latter photo, One World, Big Screen aims to take “a fresh approach that reveals a transnational cultural dimension to the historical rise of the United Nations, World War II, and foreign relations more broadly” (p. 2). The book begins by documenting the parallel developments of film and propaganda in the United States before American entry into the war in December 1941. After documenting the interwar debate over propaganda as a legitimate tool for communicating political aims or an “un-American” trick (p. 25), Bennett chronicles the development of the partnership between Hollywood and interventionist policymakers after the onset of the Second World War. -
No Haven for the Oppressed
No Haven for the Oppressed NO HAVEN for the Oppressed United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945 by Saul S. Friedman YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY Wayne State University Press Detroit 1973 Copyright © 1973 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48202. All material in this work, except as identified below, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/. Excerpts from Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy formerly copyrighted © 1964 to Penguin Publishing Group now copyrighted to Penguin Random House. All material not licensed under a Creative Commons license is all rights reserved. Permission must be obtained from the copyright owner to use this material. Published simultaneously in Canada by the Copp Clark Publishing Company 517 Wellington Street, West Toronto 2B, Canada. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Friedman, Saul S 1937– No haven for the oppressed. Originally presented as the author’s thesis, Ohio State University. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Refugees, Jewish. 2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945) 3. United States— Emigration and immigration. 4. Jews in the United States—Political and social conditions. I. Title. D810.J4F75 1973 940.53’159 72-2271 ISBN 978-0-8143-4373-9 (paperback); 978-0-8143-4374-6 (ebook) Publication of this book was assisted by the American Council of Learned Societies under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The publication of this volume in a freely accessible digital format has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program. -
US-Soviet Summit November-December 1987
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Digital Library Collections This is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections. Collection: Ermarth, Fritz W.: Files Folder Title: US-Soviet Summit November 1987 - December 1987 (5) Box: RAC Box 1 To see more digitized collections visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library To see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection Contact a reference archivist at: [email protected] Citation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing National Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/ WITHDRAWAL SHEET Ronald Reagan Library Collection Name ERMATH, FRITZ: FILES Withdrawer MID 4/19/2013 File Folder US - SOVIET SUMMIT: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1987 (5) FOIA F02-073/5 Box Number RAC BOX 1 COLLINS 85 ID Doc Type Document Description No of Doc Date Restrictions Pages 157588 MEMO ROBERT RISCASSI TO GRANT GREEN 2 11/20/1987 Bl RE SUMMIT 157589 MEMO FRANK CARLUCCI TO THE PRESIDENT 5 11/20/1987 B 1 RE SCOPE PAPER 157590 SCOPE PAPER RE KEY ISSUES FOR THE SUMMIT 7 ND Bl 157591 MEMO FRITZ ERMARTH TO FRANK CARLUCCI 1 11/19/1987 Bl RE SCOPE PAPER 157592 MEMO WILLIAM MATZ TO GRANT GREEN RE 3 11/23/1987 B 1 SUMMIT (W/ATTACHMENTS) The above documents were not referred for declassification review at time of processing Freedom of Information Act• (5 U.S.C. 552(b)J B-1 Natlonal aecurlty claaalfled Information [(b)(1) of the FOIAJ B-2 Releaae would dlacloae Internal personnel rulea and practices of an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIAJ B-3 Releaae would -
Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. AJP Taylor, English History, 1914–1945 (Oxford: OUP, 1965), p. 522. 2. For sentiments similar to Taylor’s, expressed in the memoirs of several pro- tagonists and makers of British foreign policy during the Second World War, see Major General Sir Francis de Guingand, Operation Victory (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947), p. 49; Bernard Fergusson, The Trumpet in the Hall, 1930–1958 (London: Collins, 1970), pp. 81–5; Lord Ismay, The Mem- oirs of General the Lord Ismay (London: Heinemann, 1960), pp. 322, 330–1; Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, Diplomat in Peace & War (London: John Murray, 1949), pp. 203–4; Arthur S Gould Lee, Special Duties – Reminis- cences of a Royal Air Force Staff Officer in the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East (London: S Low, Marston & Co, 1946), p. 28; Sir John Lomax, Diplo- matic Smuggler (London: A Barker, 1965), pp. 245–6; Geoffrey Thompson, Front-Line Diplomat (London: Hutchinson, 1959), p. 167. 3. For a concise account of the nature of this material, and the means by which it was gathered, see Robin Denniston, ‘Diplomatic Eavesdropping, 1922–44: A New Source Discovered,’ Intelligence & National Security 10:3 (1995), 423–48. 4. Robin Denniston, Churchill’s Secret War: Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey, 1942–44 (Stroud: Sutton, 1997). 5. There is a complete run of diplomatic intercepts dating back to the early 1920s, although the period June–December 1938 is missing. 6. John Robertson, Turkey & Allied Strategy, 1941–45 (New York: Garland, 1986). 7. Gabriel Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion – Stalin & the German Invasion of Russia (London: Yale University Press, 1999). -
The Foreign Service Journal, October 1978
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Ronald Davis Oral History Collection on the Performing Arts
Oral History Collection on the Performing Arts in America Southern Methodist University The Southern Methodist University Oral History Program was begun in 1972 and is part of the University’s DeGolyer Institute for American Studies. The goal is to gather primary source material for future writers and cultural historians on all branches of the performing arts- opera, ballet, the concert stage, theatre, films, radio, television, burlesque, vaudeville, popular music, jazz, the circus, and miscellaneous amateur and local productions. The Collection is particularly strong, however, in the areas of motion pictures and popular music and includes interviews with celebrated performers as well as a wide variety of behind-the-scenes personnel, several of whom are now deceased. Most interviews are biographical in nature although some are focused exclusively on a single topic of historical importance. The Program aims at balancing national developments with examples from local history. Interviews with members of the Dallas Little Theatre, therefore, serve to illustrate a nation-wide movement, while film exhibition across the country is exemplified by the Interstate Theater Circuit of Texas. The interviews have all been conducted by trained historians, who attempt to view artistic achievements against a broad social and cultural backdrop. Many of the persons interviewed, because of educational limitations or various extenuating circumstances, would never write down their experiences, and therefore valuable information on our nation’s cultural heritage would be lost if it were not for the S.M.U. Oral History Program. Interviewees are selected on the strength of (1) their contribution to the performing arts in America, (2) their unique position in a given art form, and (3) availability. -
Backstairs Mission in Moscow 9
Listen to the man wh k what goes on in RedoR no~s ussra: Sl.OO. "This is truth undilut d Such is the value pi d e . •·. a Warning to alii" who ace upon this b k · · ~pent 12 years in the Forb·dd oo . by Father :Brau" ' en Land of the ·Soviets I was greatly interested in reading ~Backataira. Mission in Mosc.ow. 8 It is a very original and sincere presentation. This book obvioualy has not the least pretention of being an essay or treatise and most of all, its author is not trying to prove a point. One does not have to be a philosopher, an ecom- a diplomat to understand, as this narra- ' · mist or .; tive illustrates, that fear and utter disenchant ment are the prevalent sentiments of the good people he observed. That is the sustained thought emanating from Charles Ciliberti 1 s exp~s .e • . Without calculation and. without the artifice ot =·' studied phrases, this book gives a surprisingly. ··. :. truthful . and penetrating picture o:f the depl,or;-::( ? endured by a lovable people. · · . ..: ; . · able reality '!! ·;_ -· . ..~ Truth undiluted comes out :from the reading of · this book. The truth that. an iron curtain doe·s exist, where suppressed and hideous realitie's on .·., a stupendous scale make us feel . so glad · and grate ful to be livillE!: under applied principles ., of democracy. It is ~ earnest hope that this vivid descriP-. tion -- whicn is also a warning-- will ,reach the ears and minds of the unsuspecting ~blic. ' ~ ~ '..... c:x:._ "< ofc. .f./ J -:;j. 4~ · 1(A · i ' 1 12 Years Behind the Iro ,. -
1 Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project THOMAS R. HUTSON Interviewed By: Charles
Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project THOMAS R. HUTSON Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: April 10, 1999 Copyright 2005 A ST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born and raised in Nebraska University of Nebraska Marriage U.S. Army Entered the Foreign Service in 1967 Teheran, Iran; Rotation Officer 1968-1971 The Shah Environment 0isa and citi1enship case studies Am assador Macarthur Political situation State Department, FSI 2 Ser o-Croation language studies 1971 Belgrade, 4ugoslavia, 1972-1975 Consular Officer Environment Security P7O Croatia tensions Banja 7uka branch office 8osovo Al anians Tito Soviet Union Am assador Toom State Department, Special Assistant to Undersecretary Sisco 1975-1976 State Department, CA Bureau. Program Officer, E. Europe 1976 Bulgaria, 4ugoslavia and Romania 1 Cultural e9change programs :innipeg, Canada, Principal Officer 1976-197. Consular district U.S. interests Relations Economic issues 7i erals Environment issues Moscow, Soviet Union, Consul General 197.-19.0 Jewish emigrants American ?refugees” Pentecostals Senator Javits ?DAtente” Security Dutch em assy help Jews Unusual visa cases Am assador :atson Jailed Americans Afghanistan invasion O jections to U.S. policy Resignation in protest to U.S policy 19.0 Post-Resignation Activity 19.0-19.3 Independent contractor Houston oil services firm Interest in reentering the U.S. government American Council of 4oung Political 7eaders Re-entered the Foreign Service, 19.3 7agos, Nigeria, Regional Consular Officer 19.3-19.5 Oil Education 0isa management program Regional offices Duties and operation State Department, FSI, Mandarin language studies 19.5-19.6 Taipei, TaiwanC FSI, Mandarin language studies 19.6-19.7 2 Taipei, Taiwan, American Institute, Chief Consular Officer 19.7-1990 Management Corruption 0isa cases 0isa fraud Belgrade, 4ugoslavia, Science Counselor 1990-1992 Economy Bosnia referendum Am assador Dimmermann Riots Industry U.S.