A new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR’s Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe’s work explains the motivations and goals of Roosevelt through an analysis of the president’s foreign policy and of the nature of the Anglo-American relationship of the time.
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Introduction: The Mission of Sumner Welles to Europe (Feb-Mar 1940) Rooseveltian Foreign Policy and Anglo-American Relations in the Late 1930s The Anglo-American Relationship of 1938 and 1939: A Relationship in the Making War and Peace: The Phoney War, ‘Like Spectators at a Football Match’ ‘Wishing Welles:’ The Immediate Origins of the Welles Mission in January and February 1940 Hope, Despair, Friends: Welles in Rome, Berlin and Paris, 17 February-12 March 1940 ‘The Grass Snake’ Arrives: Welles in London, 13 March-15 March 1940 Increasingly Forlorn: Welles Heads Home via Rome Conclusion: The Welles Mission: A Short-Term Legacy and a Historical Evaluation
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J. SIMON ROFE is a Lecturer at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, UK.
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