Franklin Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission

1. Front Matter

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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

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   Pages 1-12

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

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   Pages 13-46

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

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   Pages 47-74

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

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

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

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   Pages 131-154

8. Increasingly Forlorn: Welles Heads Home via Rome

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

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10. Back Matter

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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.

• Anglo-American
• Europe
• foreign policy
• Policy
• work

'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

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

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