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Franklin Roosevelt's Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission
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FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S FOREIGN POLICY AND THE WELLES MISSION J. Simon Rofe New York: Palgrave, 2007. x, 270pp, $69.95 cloth (ISBN 1-4039-8073-1)
In February and March 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent his closest foreign policy adviser, Under secretary of State Sumner Welles, on a tour of four European capitals. Nazi Germany had conquered Poland the previous September and, having secured its eastern flank through a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, prepared to move west. In this tense period of "phony war," Europe, and with it the United States, held its breath in dreaded expectation. Should the Nazis succeed in conquering western Europe, the fate of the rest of the …
