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Franklin Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission

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  • © 2007

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  1. J. Simon Rofe
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Part of the book series: The World of the Roosevelts (WOOROO)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Mission of Sumner Welles to Europe (February–March 1940), Rooseveltian Foreign Policy, and Anglo-American Relations, November 1937–May 1940

    • J. Simon Rofe
    Pages 1-12

  3. Rooseveltian Foreign Policy Making and Anglo-American Relations in 1938 and 1939—Relationships in the Making

    • J. Simon Rofe
    Pages 13-46

  4. War and Peace—Rooseveltian Foreign Policy and the “Phony War”: “Like Spectators at a Football Match”

    • J. Simon Rofe
    Pages 47-74

  5. “Wishing Welles”: The Immediate Origins of the Welles Mission, January and February 1940

    • J. Simon Rofe
    Pages 75-106

  6. Hope, Despair, Friends—Welles in Rome, Berlin, and Paris, 17 February–12 March 1940

    • J. Simon Rofe
    Pages 107-130

  7. “The Grass Snake” Arrives: Welles in London, 10 March–13 March 1940

    • J. Simon Rofe
    Pages 131-154

  8. Increasingly Forlorn: Welles Heads Home via Rome

    • J. Simon Rofe
    Pages 155-173

  9. The Welles Mission: A Short-Term Legacy to the Anglo-American Relationship and Rooseveltian Foreign Policy

    • J. Simon Rofe
    Pages 175-191

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 193-270
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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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'This book is well done, and thoroughly researched, and given the lack of attention the Welles' mission has received in the historiography of the Second World War, it represents a significant addition to scholarship of the period.' - David Woolner, Assistant Professor of History at Marist College

About the author

J. SIMON ROFE is a Lecturer at the Defence Studies Department, King's College London, UK.

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