Review: Patrick J. Hurley and American Foreign Policy
| Date | 01 March 1975 |
| Published date | 01 March 1975 |
| Author | John F. Melby |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207503000117 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
170
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
trust
between
the
more
dedicated
New Dealers,
including White,
and
the
industrial-financial
'establishment'
whom
they
had
displaced
and
disgraced. Evicted
from
the
seats
of
authority
in
Washington, the
establishment
hated
Roosevelt
-
'that
man
in
the
White
House'
-
and
his
New
Dealers
about
as
vehemently
as
they
hated
all
(other)
'com-
munists,'
whether
in
Russia
or
China
or
elsewhere.
Yet,
as
the
Washington
wartime
organization
grew,
many
members
of
the
establishment
were
drawn
into
senior positions
in
such agencies
as
the
War
Production
Board
and
the
Pentagon.
Officials
like
Harry
White,
who
were
(as
Mr
Rees
makes clear)
attempting
to
build
a
cohesive
postwar
world
that
would
include
communists
wherever
they
might
be,
were
known
to
have
deep
misgivings
not
only
about
the
extent
of
the
support
that
was
being
given
to
the
Russians
but
also
about
the
fact
that
the
support
provided
to
the
Chinese
Nationalists
was
being
used
not
so
much
to
battle
the
Japanese
as
to
suppress
the
Chinese Communists.
But
whether
White
became
a
channel
through
which confidential
information
was
conveyed
to
the
Russians
is
quite
another
story.
Mr
Rees
reviews
at
length the
allegations
that
were
made,
and
such
evi-
dence
as
was
produced,
but
does
not
seem
to
bring
to
light anything
new.
He
nevertheless concludes
with Lord
Robbins
that
White
must
have been
'a
sentimental
and
highly indiscreet
fellow-traveller.'
Peo-
ple
who
knew
White
best
continue
to
affirm
his loyalty.
His
daughter,
responding
at length
in
the
Times
Literary
Supplement
to
a
favour-
able
review
of
this
biography,
writes
as
follows:
'The
truth
is
that
Harry
White
was
an honest
man
who
served
his
country
well,
and
Mr
Ree's book
about
him
is
false.'
A.F.W.
Plumptre/Ottawa
PATRICK
J.
HURLEY
AND
AMERICAN FOREIGN
POLICY
Russell
D.
Buhite
Ithaca: Cornell
University
Press,
1973,
xvi,
342pp,
$14.5o
'A
poor
boy
who
made
good
in the
legendary
American
tradition
and
who,
through
circumstance
and
ambition,
gained
some
influence
and
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