MISSION TO MOSG OW BT JOSEPH E. DAVIES UNITED ST X ES AMBASSADOR TO
THE SOVIET UNION FROM 1936 TO 1938 A record of confidential
dispatches to the State Department, official and personal
correspondence, current diary and journal entries, including notes
and comment up to October, 1941 LONDON VICTOR GOLLANCZ LIMITED 1945
TO TWO GREAT WOMEN MY MOTHER and MY WIFE First Published May Second
Impression June Third Impression September 1942 Fourth Impression
November 1942 Fifth Impression March 1943 Sixth Impression May 1943
Seventh Impression August 1943 Eighth Impression yanuary 1944 Ninth
Impression October 1944 Tenth Impression March PRINTKT IN GREAT
BRITAIN BY WTT. TJAVf QUOWBS AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BBGCJJBS
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD V AUTHORS NOTE xi I. The Mission Begins
November z6 y iggfi-March 30, 1937 13 n. Washington and Points East
April 5-June so, 7957 98 HI. The Purge Hits the Red Army June
25-July Sf8 9 1937 109 iv. Russia Through Her Neighbours Eyes July
98-December 24 937 139 v. The Purge Hits Bukharin January i-Marck
17, 1938 172 vi. Moscow Hears the Drums of War March 14-April, 1938
185 vn. Climax of the Mission April 6-July 5, 1938 203 vm. Brief on
the Facts June 6, 1938 243 DC. Harvest of the Mission July 6 9
1938-October s8 1941 274 CHRONOLOGY 329 APPENDIX 341 Supplementary
Report on the Stalin Conversation 341 Footnote on Sweden 346 The
Baltic States Prepare for the Worst 348 Expert Report on Russias
War Industries 354 Inventory on Russias Richest Region 356
Memorandum on Soviet Industrial Regions 356 The Port of Odessa 364
Bread-baking hi Odessa 365 The Port of Batum 366 The Batum Oil
Refinery 367 The Soviet Atlantic City 374 Mountains of Cement at
Novorosbsk376 The Winery at Yalta 379 Recreation Gamps at Yalta 388
Collective Farms in the Ukraine 391 Documentation on the Demarche
that Failed 397 Documents on Debt and Trade Talks The Ambassadors
Farewell 41 1 We surely cannot deny to any nation that right
whereon our own government is founded that every one may govern
itself according to its own will, and that it may transact its
business through whatever organ it thinks proper, whether king,
convention, assembly, committee, preside or anything else it may
choose. THOMAS JEFI RSON FOREWORD IT was August 25, 1936. I
remember the date because it was my mothers birthday. I was up in
the Adirondacks. I received a long distance telephone call from my
old friend, Secretary Steve Early at the White House, saying that
the President wanted to see me. I went to Washington immediately.
The President received me hi the executive offices of the White
House. Over a lunch which was served to us on his office desk he
told me that he wanted to talk to me about a possible diplomatic
appointment abroad. The background of this situation is found in
the old days of Presi dent Wilsons dxninistration when we had been
young men together, devoted to the raogressive cause in the
Democratic Party, both before and dugfng the Wilson Administration.
A warm friendship had developedin those old days. We golfed
together as regularly as our work would permit, had much in common
in our political out look, and saw a great deal of each other. Even
in those days he was a marked man. Early in the Wilson
Administration we had an organization called the Common Counsel
Club, which brought us all together twice a month. It was similar
hi character to the Little Cabinet of later days.All of us saw in
this tall, handsome young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the
future great progressive liberal whom we were all for in connection
with some future elec tion to the presidency. In all of his
political campaigns thereafter, along with these other men, I was
actively engaged in his interest along with Louis Howe and other
political managers. During all these years our friendship has been
both warm and steadfast. One of the strongest bonds of our
friendship was our mothers...
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