...A. A. Berle, Jr. Copyright 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 * The author served as Assistant Secretary of State, 1939-45 and as American Ambassador to Brazil, 1945-1946.—Ed. ...

...Stanley E. Hilton Berle conceived of the embassy as not only a center for study and observation, but for advocacy as well. In other words, he was convinced that he both understood the country’s problems and had the solutions—one sympathetic biographical essayist has acknowledged that Berle had...

...Frederick B. Pike Latin America. Diplomacy and Reality . By Berle Adolph A. . New York , 1962 . Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper and Row, Publishers, Incorporated . Index . Pp. xii , 144 . $2.95 . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963...

...Thomas E. Skidmore Political Trends in Brazil . By de Dubnic Vladimir Reisky . Foreword by Berle Adolf A. . Washington , 1968 . Public Affairs Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 184 . $6.00 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 This book is a slim...

... by Adolf Berle dated New York, New York, March, 1963, in which Berle vouches for the importance and, apparently, for the veracity of the narrative. These dates are specified here because they suggest that the main body of the book was probably completed before General Ydígoras left Guatemala. The most...

...—not necessarily the President himself—“had limited knowledge of Brazilian-American relations and even less sympathy for Brazilian aspirations.” 25 Hilton apparently reached contrary conclusions. He quoted Truman as telling Adolph Berle, recently appointed ambassador to Rio de Janeiro, that “he was more anxious...

... than . . . previously perceived” (p. xiii). The book’s case studies include chapters on the well-known struggle by Ambassador Spruille Braden to prevent Perón’s ascendancy, Adolf Berle’s role in forcing the resignation of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil, the complex relationship between the U.S...

...J. Fred Rippy New Directions in the New World . By Berle Adolf . ( New York : Harper and Brothers , 1940 . Pp. xi , 141 . $2.00 .) Copyright 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 ...

... by English language economists (Adolf Berle, Harvey O’Connor, Paul Baran, Louis Fischer, J. A. Hobson, John Strachey) already available (but not, alas, familiar) to students of economics and economic history in the United States. If Hobson was correct (and Lenin certainly thought he was), monopoly capitalism...

... of 1965. The only essays which deal much with Castro or the Dominican Republic (Adolph A. Berle, “The Cold War in the Caribbean,” and Virginia Prewett, “A Changing United States Foreign Policy,”) are brief, generalized, and obsolete. Presumably at the last moment, Editor Wilgus added a succinct...

...Veronica Rodriguez Historia de las Indias (1552) . By Francisco López de Gómara . Edited by Monique Mustapha , Louise Bénat-Tachot , Marie-Cécile Bénassy-Berling , and Paul Roche in collaboration with María del Carmen Martínez Martínez , Marie-Laure Rieu Millán , and Mónica...

..., viz Adolf A. Berle’s Latin America—Diplomacy and Reality , with its newspaper clichés, molasses sweetening, and basement gurglings of the militant Christian anti-Communist crusade. This is a marvelous, too marvelous condensation. It would have been strengthened had the basic documents from...

... of the censo consignatiυo as a mechanism of church credit, and one by Enriqueta Vila Vilar and Remedios Tasset Carmona on death as an economic driving force in the baroque church. Women’s history receives a brief contribution from Marie-Cécile Bénassy-Berling, writing about the conflict of a Carmelite nun...

.... Haglund sometimes confuses Cordell Hull’s self-serving memoirs with fact, and Adolf Berle’s quotable diaries are overly cited. The lack of reliance on primary sources artificially minimizes the critical positions of Sumner Welles and Laurence Duggan. Haglund does not provide background for either man...

...) that might guide the country out of the Estado Novo, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Adolf Berle began inviting a group of young Brazilian intellectuals to weekly discussion groups. Lacerda, whom Berle viewed as a leftist and “a good, honest boy, rather on the poetic side,” was a regular participant. Berle lauded...

... of Hoover, Adolf Berle, ex-Minister to Austria John Wiley, and others, the American military permitted Count Rudy von Star-hemberg to rejoin his family, which was living on Mandl’s bounty in Buenos Aires. 31 In October 1942, the United States representatives to the joint British-U.S. blacklist...

.... 85 Stettinius to Hull, May 22, 1944, FRUS, 1944 , 7 vols. (Washington, D. C., 1965-1967), III, 13. 86 Hull to Stettinius, Apr. 15, 1944, DS, 7400. 0011, Stettinius Mission/34D; Stettinius to Hull, May 22, 1944, FRUS, 1944 , III, 14. 87 Ambassador Adolf Berle (Rio) to State Dept...

... in late February 1946, rumors spread rapidly about the dispatch of a ten-person trade mission and the imminent establishment of Soviet-Argentine relations. United States ambassador in Rio de Janeiro, Adolf Berle, called attention in a telegram to the different signs that confirmed Soviet interest...

... “Totalitarian Penetration in Cuba” (J. Edgar Hoover to Adolf A. Berle), 20 Sept. 1940, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park (hereafter cited as NARA), General Records of the State Department, Record Group (hereafter cited as RG) 59, 1940–1944 Decimal Files, 837.00Spanish/27, p. 2...

... material (Berle, Braden, Hull, Morgenthau) there are useful memoirs by Sir David Kelly (The Ruling Few, or, The Human Background to Diplomacy [London, 1952]), Eduardo Labougle (Misión en Berlin , [Buenos Aires, 1946]), and Heinrich Volberg (Auslands-Deutschtum und Drittes Reich: der Fall Argentinien...