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Sumner Welles : FDR's global strategist : a biography / Benjamin Welles

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Diplomatic and Economic History | The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute SeriesPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997 Edition: First editionDescription: 437 pages : photograpsISBN:
  • 0-312-17440-3
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.730992 W449W 1997
Contents:
Acknowledgments, vii.-- Foreword, ix.-- Sources, xi.-- Prologue : Birth of a scandal, 1940, 1.-- / YARS OF YOUTH / Family and Groton, 1892-1910, 7.-- Harvard, 1911-1912, 16.-- Paris, 1913-1914, 26.-- YEARS OF PROMISE / Japan, 1915-1917, 41.-- Argentina, 1917-1919, 52.-- Directing Latin American Affairs, 1920-1922, 63.-- The Dominican Republic, Mathilde and Resignation, 1922, 80.-- “Presidential Timber”, 1923-1924, 91.-- Crisis in Honduras, 1923, 102.-- Marriage and dismissal, 1924-1925, 108.-- In the political wilderness, 1927-1928, 116.-- The dawes mission, 1929, 129.-- Gowing links with FDR, 1928-1932, 134.-- YERAS OF ACHIEVEMENT / Assistant secretary of state for Latin America, 1933, 147.-- Ambassador to Cuba, 1933, 156.-- End of a controversial mission, 1933, 169.-- Back at the helm : the 1936 Buenos Aires conference, 1934-1936, 182.-- Under secretary and global planner, 1937, 196.-- At FDR`s right hand, 1938-1939, 209.-- The creation of Israel, 1937-1948, 219.-- Mission to Europe, 1940, 240.-- Hull`s problem with welles, 1940- 1941, 258.-- In the national spotlight, 1940-1942, 271.-- De gaulle and the free french, 1940-1944, 284.-- The atlantic charter conference, 1941, 300.-- Defending the hemisphere : the rio conference, 1942, 313.-- Planning for peace, 1942-1943, 324.-- Resignation, 1943, 341.-- YEARS OF DECLINE / Ready to depart, 1943-1961, 357.-- Epilogue, 375.-- Notes, 381.-- Bibliography, 419.-- Index, 425.
Summary: En 1915, Sumner Welles, hijo de una familia aristocrática, comenzó a trabajar para el Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos, donde rápidamente mostró una aptitud para el delicado trabajo de negociación internacional. Sus primeros éxitos en América Latina lo llevaron más tarde a la atención de Franklin Roosevelt, quien lo llevó a su administración como Subsecretario de Estado. Welles proporcionó a FDR información invaluable sobre
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Acknowledgments, vii.-- Foreword, ix.-- Sources, xi.-- Prologue : Birth of a scandal, 1940, 1.-- / YARS OF YOUTH / Family and Groton, 1892-1910, 7.-- Harvard, 1911-1912, 16.-- Paris, 1913-1914, 26.-- YEARS OF PROMISE / Japan, 1915-1917, 41.-- Argentina, 1917-1919, 52.-- Directing Latin American Affairs, 1920-1922, 63.-- The Dominican Republic, Mathilde and Resignation, 1922, 80.-- “Presidential Timber”, 1923-1924, 91.-- Crisis in Honduras, 1923, 102.-- Marriage and dismissal, 1924-1925, 108.-- In the political wilderness, 1927-1928, 116.-- The dawes mission, 1929, 129.-- Gowing links with FDR, 1928-1932, 134.-- YERAS OF ACHIEVEMENT / Assistant secretary of state for Latin America, 1933, 147.-- Ambassador to Cuba, 1933, 156.-- End of a controversial mission, 1933, 169.-- Back at the helm : the 1936 Buenos Aires conference, 1934-1936, 182.-- Under secretary and global planner, 1937, 196.-- At FDR`s right hand, 1938-1939, 209.-- The creation of Israel, 1937-1948, 219.-- Mission to Europe, 1940, 240.-- Hull`s problem with welles, 1940- 1941, 258.-- In the national spotlight, 1940-1942, 271.-- De gaulle and the free french, 1940-1944, 284.-- The atlantic charter conference, 1941, 300.-- Defending the hemisphere : the rio conference, 1942, 313.-- Planning for peace, 1942-1943, 324.-- Resignation, 1943, 341.-- YEARS OF DECLINE / Ready to depart, 1943-1961, 357.-- Epilogue, 375.-- Notes, 381.-- Bibliography, 419.-- Index, 425.

En 1915, Sumner Welles, hijo de una familia aristocrática, comenzó a trabajar para el Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos, donde rápidamente mostró una aptitud para el delicado trabajo de negociación internacional. Sus primeros éxitos en América Latina lo llevaron más tarde a la atención de Franklin Roosevelt, quien lo llevó a su administración como Subsecretario de Estado. Welles proporcionó a FDR información invaluable sobre

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