J. C. Masterman. The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945. Pp. xxi, 203. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972. $6.95. Ladislas Farago. The Game of the Foxes: The Untold Story of German Espionage in the United States and Great Britain during World War II. Pp. xxi, 696. New York: David McKay, 1972. $11.95

This chapter defines Graham’s crusades in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom in the 1950s as powerful cultural orchestrations of Cold War culture. It explores the reasons of leading political figures to support Graham, the media discourses that constructed Graham’s image as a cold warrior, and the religious and political worldviews of the religious organizers of the crusades in London, Washington, New York, and Berlin. In doing so, the chapter shows how hopes for genuine re-Christianization, in response to looming secularization, anticommunist fears, and post–World War II national anxieties, as well as spiritual legitimizations for the Cold War conflict, blended in Graham’s campaign work. These anxieties, hopes, and worldviews crisscrossed the Atlantic, allowing Graham and his campaign teams to make a significant contribution to creating an imagined transnational “spiritual Free World.”

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A Transition of Internationalisms: Britain, the United States, and the Formation of the United Nations Information Organization during World War II

International Journal for History Culture and Modernity ◽

10.18352/hcm.549 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Giles Scott-Smith

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

World War Ii ◽

United Nations ◽

Public Information ◽

World Order ◽

The United States ◽

International Agency ◽

World War ◽

The United Nations

The United Nations Information Office (UNIO), dating from 1942, holds the distinction of being both the first international agency of the embryonic UN network and the first to hold the United Nations label. Run from 1942 to 1945 from two offices in New York and London, these two were merged at the end of World War II to form the UN Information Organisation, and subsequently transformed into the Department of Public Information run from UN headquarters in New York. This article adds to the history of the UN by exploring the origins and development of the UNIO during 1940–41, when it was a British-led propaganda operation to gather US support for the allied war effort. It also examines the UNIO from the viewpoint of the power transition from Britain to the United States that took place during the war, and how this reflected a transition of internationalisms: from the British view of world order through benevolent imperialism to the American view of a progressive campaign for global development and human rights.

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The United States, Great Britain, and British North America, from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812. By A. L. Burt, Professor of History, University of Minnesota. [The Relations of Canada and the United States, James T. Shotwell, Director.] New Haven: Yale University Press. 1940. Pp. vii, 448. $3.25.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/47.1.87 ◽

1941 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Great Britain ◽

North America ◽

The United States ◽

War Of 1812 ◽

New Haven ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Yale University ◽

British North America ◽

The Revolution

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Bacterial Infecfions: Changes in Their Causative Agents—Trends and Possible Basis (Bayer—Symposium III), edited by M. Finland, W. Marget, and K. Bartmann. New York/Heidelberg/Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1971, 231 pp., $15.00

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.50.5.833 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 50 (5) ◽

pp. 833-833

Author(s):

John D. Nelson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Great Britain ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Infectious Diseases ◽

Bacterial Infections ◽

The United States ◽

New Haven ◽

Causative Agents ◽

Changing Patterns

Almost two years ago a group of eminent international authorities in the field of infectious diseases gathered near Cologne, Germany, for a week of reflection and discussion concerning the changing patterns of bacterial infections in recent decades and the possible reasons for the changes. The United States was represented by Drs. M. Finland and E. H. Kass of Boston, F. Daschner of Los Angeles, and A. von Graevenitz of New Haven. Other scientists were from Germany, France, Sweden, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Denmark.

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