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The origins of the cold war: some new documents*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Harold James  and
Marzenna James
Harold James
Affiliation:
Princeton University
Marzenna James
Affiliation:
Princeton University
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The Historical Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , September 1994 , pp. 615 - 622
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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References

1 Keesings Contemporary Archives (1946), p. 7631.Google Scholar

2 Isaacson, Walter and Thomas, Evan, The Wise men: Six friends and the world they made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy (New York, 1986), p. 352.Google Scholar

3 In particular article IV, section 5(e), which permits countries to change their par values ‘if the change does not affect the international transactions of members of the Fund’, was included at the Soviet insistence.

4 For instance, Mikesell, Raymond F., ‘Negotiating at Bretton Woods’, in Dennett, Raymond and Johnson, Jospeh E. (eds.), Negotiating with the Russians (Boston, 1951), pp. 101–16.Google Scholar

5 U.S. 73rd congress, session II, chapter 112, 13 April 1934; ‘To prohibit financial transactions with any foreign government in default on its obligations to the United States’ (United States Statutes at Large, 48, I, 574); U.S. 79th congress, session 1, chapter 339, 13 July 1945, Bretton Woods Act, section 9 (United States Statutes at Large, 59 I, 516).

6 Princeton University Manuscript Archive, Harry Dexter White papers 7/23d, 30 Nov. 1945 ‘Note of H.D. White’.

7 White papers 7/23a, 7 Mar. 1944, ‘Proposed U.S. loan to the U.S.S.R.’.

8 White papers 7/23c, 10 Jan. 1945, ‘Memorandom for the president’.

9 The recent book by Andrew, Christopher and Gordievsky, Oleg, KGB: The inside story of its foreign operations from Lenin to Gorbachev (New York, 1990), pp. 278, 282 and 370Google Scholar repeats but cannot prove these allegations conclusively.

10 Bullock, Alan, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives (New York, 1992), pp. 912–13, 917.Google Scholar

11 Kennan, George F., Memoirs 1925–1950 (Boston, 1967), p. 293.Google Scholar

12 Ibid. pp. 553, 547; telegraphic message from Moscow, 22 Feb. 1946.

13 Translated from Russian by Marzenna James.