This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

He held that position for the remainder of Johnson's presidency. He divorced her in 1928 and about a year later he married Marie Norton Whitney who left her husband Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to marry him. While in Berlin he noted the tight security imposed by Soviet military authorities and the quick beginnings of a program of reparations by which the Soviets were stripping out German industry.

Ambassador to Britain. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson both times. S.