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ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D.: (1882-1945) (+2) Roosevelt & Murray engage in a discussion of Nazism and Hitl
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ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D.: (1882-1945) American President 1933-45. An interesting, small group of correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Arthur Murray (1879-1962) 3rd Viscount Elibank, British Lieutenant-Colonel and politician who served as Assistant Military Attaché in Washington (1917-18) and had a particular interest in foreign policy. The exchange of letters comprise, in chronological order -(i) Franklin D. Roosevelt - An excellent T.L.S., Franklin D. Roosevelt, as President, two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), 8vo, Washington, 10th February 1938, to Arthur Murray, on the printed stationery of The White House. Roosevelt commences by reflecting ´I begin to think that events in this world move with a velocity which increases with every passing year´ and adds that since receiving Murray´s letter new events have happened which render Murray out of date, observing ´Another crisis in Germany, but it does prove your rightness making unkind remarks about some people who see Nazi-ism ideals of peace and good-will´ and also informing Murray ´I am getting on better with some of your people - - for they are really showing signs of wanting to meet me part of the way - - perhaps not fifty percent yet! I, too, am pursued by catch-crisis in this country, and I am in the midst of a long process of education - - and the process seems to be working slowly but surely´. Roosevelt further expresses his pleasure at Murray and his wife being able to visit America in the autumn, ´My present plan - - if peace remains and if Congress goes home in June - - is to stay in these parts until after my boy John´s wedding and the visit of the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, about July first, and then take a trip on a cruiser for a month, either in the Pacific or South Atlantic. This means that from the middle of August I shall be up, off and on at Hyde Park until November, so if you can get here then - - preferably between September fifteenth and November first - - it would be perfect´. With a presentation inscription by Murray to the head of the first page, ´For Hermione Hobhouse from Arthur Murray´, with his stamped name beneath, and date, 7th August 1957, in his hand.(ii) Arthur Murray - T.L.S., Arthur Murray, two pages (separate leaves), 8vo (the second page neatly trimmed at the foot), Edinburgh, 20th February 1938, to Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the printed stationery of the New Club, marked Copy. Muray informs Roosevelt that he and his wife had recently met Walter Runciman for lunch in London, ´Walter R. said that he was writing to you, and asked if I could send on his letter so that it reached your hands direct. I said that I could do so. He has accordingly sent me the letter, and I enclose it with this´ (no longer present), and continues ´The "velocity" (to which you refer in your letter of Feb. 10), with which world events move, is increasing almost hourly! All the more reason that our statesmen here should take long views on the European situation, or they will never catch up - much less keep pace with - the changes that confront them as the days pass. But after all there was no reason why they should have been surprised at the latest turn of events, unless indeed they did believe - as some of us have always believed - that Hitler´s eyes had a fixed stare in an easterly and south easterly direction, and that nothing would divert him from his objective´. In concluding Murray thanks Roosevelt for their suggested dates of a visit to Hyde Park, ´That will be delightful, and we shall look forward very much to it´.(iii) Arthur Murray - A lengthy T.L.S., Arthur Murray, four pages (separate leaves), 8vo, London, 26th March 1938, to Franklin Roosevelt. Murray commences by discussing arrangements for his visit to America, and explains that he and his wife propose to arrive in New York on 16th October, ´and it will be very nice if you will allow us to come to you about that time´, and continues to refer to various world political events, ´As it seems to me the Continental problems through which Edward Grey had to steer in pre-War days were simple as compared with those which fall to be solved by the British Government at these times. It may well be that the chickens which have been wandering through the tangled jungle of mistaken policies are now coming home to roost. Failure to read aright from the beginning the ambitions and aspirations of the Nazi regierung - - of which failure, I trust, I am absolved by the tenor of my letters to you during the past year! - - have caused the situation with which we stand confronted to-day to be infinitely more complex than it might otherwise have been. But, however that may be, the policy now enunciated by the Prime Minister, setting forth the circumstances, and coneivable circumstances, in which Britain would draw the sword - - which is now being forged with redoubled energy - - is a policy of which the great bulk of the nation approves. The House of Commons approved it without a division......The facts speak for themselves, namely, that the European policy adumbrated by the Prime Minister has large majority support in Britain and throughout the British Commonwealth of Nations.....So far as the problem of Italy is concerned, I conceive the greater evil to be that as Germany grew stronger Italy, if left completely within her orbit, would inevitably become an obedient tentacle of the German octopus, and that a German "bloc" from the Baltic to the Mediterranean (and possibly to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea) with all its probabilities of a world-hegemony-seeking conflict, would become an accomplished fact. If British policy can avert such a "bloc" it will be proceeding in the direction of safeguarding the independence of South Eastern European States, - - now, most unhappliy, one less in number - - and in ensuring the continuance of European peace. An old friend of mine....Woodroffe by name.....is Chairman of British businesses operating in Central China.....and a great friend of Chaing-Kai-Shek´s and other prominent members of the Chinese Government. Woodroffe says that the information from various quarters that is coming in to him now leads him to the belief that the beginning of the defeat of Japan, so far as her aims and objectived in China (particularly South of the Yellow River) are concerned, is definitely at hand, and, he thinks, may be much nearer at hand than many people suppose. We must devoutly hope that he is right in his prognostications´.Three letters of fine political content written at the time of the Anschluss, one of the first major steps in Hitler´s desire to create a Greater German Reich. A few small pinholes and minor rust stains to the upper left corners of each page, otherwise VG, 3
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ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D.: (1882-1945) American President 1933-45. An interesting, small group of correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Arthur Murray (1879-1962) 3rd Viscount Elibank, British Lieutenant-Colonel and politician who served as Assistant Military Attaché in Washington (1917-18) and had a particular interest in foreign policy. The exchange of letters comprise, in chronological order -(i) Franklin D. Roosevelt - An excellent T.L.S., Franklin D. Roosevelt, as President, two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), 8vo, Washington, 10th February 1938, to Arthur Murray, on the printed stationery of The White House. Roosevelt commences by reflecting ´I begin to think that events in this world move with a velocity which increases with every passing year´ and adds that since receiving Murray´s letter new events have happened which render Murray out of date, observing ´Another crisis in Germany, but it does prove your rightness making unkind remarks about some people who see Nazi-ism ideals of peace and good-will´ and also informing Murray ´I am getting on better with some of your people - - for they are really showing signs of wanting to meet me part of the way - - perhaps not fifty percent yet! I, too, am pursued by catch-crisis in this country, and I am in the midst of a long process of education - - and the process seems to be working slowly but surely´. Roosevelt further expresses his pleasure at Murray and his wife being able to visit America in the autumn, ´My present plan - - if peace remains and if Congress goes home in June - - is to stay in these parts until after my boy John´s wedding and the visit of the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, about July first, and then take a trip on a cruiser for a month, either in the Pacific or South Atlantic. This means that from the middle of August I shall be up, off and on at Hyde Park until November, so if you can get here then - - preferably between September fifteenth and November first - - it would be perfect´. With a presentation inscription by Murray to the head of the first page, ´For Hermione Hobhouse from Arthur Murray´, with his stamped name beneath, and date, 7th August 1957, in his hand.(ii) Arthur Murray - T.L.S., Arthur Murray, two pages (separate leaves), 8vo (the second page neatly trimmed at the foot), Edinburgh, 20th February 1938, to Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the printed stationery of the New Club, marked Copy. Muray informs Roosevelt that he and his wife had recently met Walter Runciman for lunch in London, ´Walter R. said that he was writing to you, and asked if I could send on his letter so that it reached your hands direct. I said that I could do so. He has accordingly sent me the letter, and I enclose it with this´ (no longer present), and continues ´The "velocity" (to which you refer in your letter of Feb. 10), with which world events move, is increasing almost hourly! All the more reason that our statesmen here should take long views on the European situation, or they will never catch up - much less keep pace with - the changes that confront them as the days pass. But after all there was no reason why they should have been surprised at the latest turn of events, unless indeed they did believe - as some of us have always believed - that Hitler´s eyes had a fixed stare in an easterly and south easterly direction, and that nothing would divert him from his objective´. In concluding Murray thanks Roosevelt for their suggested dates of a visit to Hyde Park, ´That will be delightful, and we shall look forward very much to it´.(iii) Arthur Murray - A lengthy T.L.S., Arthur Murray, four pages (separate leaves), 8vo, London, 26th March 1938, to Franklin Roosevelt. Murray commences by discussing arrangements for his visit to America, and explains that he and his wife propose to arrive in New York on 16th October, ´and it will be very nice if you will allow us to come to you about that time´, and continues to refer to various world political events, ´As it seems to me the Continental problems through which Edward Grey had to steer in pre-War days were simple as compared with those which fall to be solved by the British Government at these times. It may well be that the chickens which have been wandering through the tangled jungle of mistaken policies are now coming home to roost. Failure to read aright from the beginning the ambitions and aspirations of the Nazi regierung - - of which failure, I trust, I am absolved by the tenor of my letters to you during the past year! - - have caused the situation with which we stand confronted to-day to be infinitely more complex than it might otherwise have been. But, however that may be, the policy now enunciated by the Prime Minister, setting forth the circumstances, and coneivable circumstances, in which Britain would draw the sword - - which is now being forged with redoubled energy - - is a policy of which the great bulk of the nation approves. The House of Commons approved it without a division......The facts speak for themselves, namely, that the European policy adumbrated by the Prime Minister has large majority support in Britain and throughout the British Commonwealth of Nations.....So far as the problem of Italy is concerned, I conceive the greater evil to be that as Germany grew stronger Italy, if left completely within her orbit, would inevitably become an obedient tentacle of the German octopus, and that a German "bloc" from the Baltic to the Mediterranean (and possibly to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea) with all its probabilities of a world-hegemony-seeking conflict, would become an accomplished fact. If British policy can avert such a "bloc" it will be proceeding in the direction of safeguarding the independence of South Eastern European States, - - now, most unhappliy, one less in number - - and in ensuring the continuance of European peace. An old friend of mine....Woodroffe by name.....is Chairman of British businesses operating in Central China.....and a great friend of Chaing-Kai-Shek´s and other prominent members of the Chinese Government. Woodroffe says that the information from various quarters that is coming in to him now leads him to the belief that the beginning of the defeat of Japan, so far as her aims and objectived in China (particularly South of the Yellow River) are concerned, is definitely at hand, and, he thinks, may be much nearer at hand than many people suppose. We must devoutly hope that he is right in his prognostications´.Three letters of fine political content written at the time of the Anschluss, one of the first major steps in Hitler´s desire to create a Greater German Reich. A few small pinholes and minor rust stains to the upper left corners of each page, otherwise VG, 3
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