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The Ox-Bow Incident: Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s Critique of the Western
The American “western,” in the novels of Owen Wister, the stories of Zane Grey, and numerous films of the 1950s and early 1960s, enshrines an American folk understanding of the…
Letter from the Acting Secretary of State (Grew) to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
Washington Foreign Relations of the United States: The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945,…
Memorandum by the President’s Adviser and Assistant (Hopkins) of a Conversation During Dinner at the Kremlin
Top Secret Moscow Foreign Relations of the United States: The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam…
Excerpts from Memorandum by Mr. Edwin A. Locke, Jr., Personal Representative of President Truman
Washington A Proposal Aimed at Averting Civil War in China 1. Stake of the United…
Excerpts from the Ambassador in China (Hurley) to the Secretary of State
Chungking [Received July 19 – 8:21 a.m.] We advised President Roosevelt more than a year…
Excerpts from Memorandum by Mr. John S. Service to the Chief of the Division of Chinese Affairs (John Carter Vincent)
Washington While in Yenan I discussed with Communist leaders the possibility of Communist policy becoming…
Excerpts from the Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
Paris 1 p.m. As a result of informal and confidential conversations with a number of…
An Estimate of Conditions in Asia and the Pacific at the Close of the War in the Far East and the Objectives and Policies of the United States
Washington A Policy Paper Prepared in the Department of State I. Introduction When V day…
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Jefferson Caffery)
Washington Noon 1945. Following telegram dated May 9 received from the Secretary at San Francisco,…
Memorandum by the Assistant to the President’s Naval Aide (George M. Elsey)
Top Secret Indo-China first became a subject in Presidential messages in November 1944. General Wedemeyer,…