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Christopher D. O’Sullivan
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Introduction
Frank Knox has never previously been the subject of a scholarly biography. This chapter broadly surveys the parameters of the book, exploring its main themes such as the roots of Knox’s internationalism, his r...
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Joining the War Cabinet
While kee** up his attacks on Roosevelt’s New Deal, Knox also battled with his fellow Republicans over foreign affairs during the years 1937–1940. His frequent visits to European capitals in the 1930s infuse...
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Undeclared War in the Atlantic
As a pugnacious publisher and former candidate for national office, Knox relished political combat. He led a spirited rhetorical offensive against critics of the administration’s foreign policy such as the cel...
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Fighting Back
Despite the widespread media, Congressional, and public obsession with Japan in the weeks following the attacks on U.S. military installations in Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island, Knox refused to...
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Conclusion
At the beginning of 1944, entering the third year of U.S. participation in the conflict, Knox could foresee an eventual end to what he characterized as an unprecedentedly destructive war. Sobered by the savage...
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Rough Rider
Born in 1874, Knox left his Midwestern college in 1898 and joined Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. In 1912 he encouraged Roosevelt to enter the presidential...
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Secretary of the Navy
FDR anticipated that Knox would provide the necessary leadership for the administration’s controversial naval expansion program. Knox embarked upon his new job with characteristic zeal. With Congress’s passage...
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War with Japan
This chapter provides insights into the actions of Knox and other senior U.S. officials during the tension-filled months leading to the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941. In the year prior to the Ja...
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War for the Pacific
Knox appreciated the global nature of the war and the interconnectedness of the many theaters of combat. The war against Japan, for example, was stretched across an unprecedented geography, and he grasped that...
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Introduction
In 1942, the American journalist and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of noted abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, warned that World War II could be lost in the colonial empires, where the Allie...
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Conclusion
On Valentine’s Day, 1945, having flown directly from his final meeting with Churchill and Stalin at Yalta, President Roosevelt met with the Saudi king Abdul Aziz al Saud aboard the USS Quincy on Egypt’s Great Bit...
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FDR and the End of Empire in the Middle East
Only four weeks after Pearl Harbor, an OSS (Office of Strategic Services) operative warned from Cairo: “The Near East is wide open and ripe for plucking.”3 This warning referred mostly to the possible threat of A...
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The New Deal on the Nile: Challenging British Power in Egypt
The British Empire faced one of its gravest crises of World War II when Axis forces made thrusts into Egypt in 1940 and 1941, threatening vital strategic interests such as the Suez Canal. The war tested the Anglo...
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FDR and Saudi Arabia: Forging a Special Relationship
The origins of the “special relationship” between the United States and Saudi Arabia are rooted in the politics of World War II, driven by America’s growing demands for oil. Roosevelt understood that the war offe...
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FDR’s Road to Damascus: The United States, the Free French, and American “Principles on Trial” in the Levant
It would be easy to overlook Syria and Lebanon in light of substantial American involvement elsewhere. Prior to World War II, American officials paid little thought to the Levant. While they gave scant attention ...
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Iraq Between Two Empires: Great Britain, Arab Nationalism, and the Origins of American Power
The first challenges Roosevelt faced in the Midle East occurred in Iraq and Egypt, where the British sought to remove governments hostile to their interests. The Americans disagreed over the proper course of acti...
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Iran: “A Testing Ground for the Atlantic Charter”
After the British interventions in Iraq and Egypt, Washington took a stronger stand against British and, to a lesser degree, Soviet, interference in Iran. To Roosevelt, Iran became a demonstration for what the Un...
