Niall Ferguson - Kissinger, Volume 1

of national liberation, 474, 629

preventive, 333

wars, local, 333, 352

conventional weapons in, 451, 482

general war vs., 337

ground war vs., 334

morality of fighting, 473–74

nuclear weapons in, see limited nuclear war

U.S. willingness to fight, 338–39

Warsaw Pact, 430, 496, 737

Washington Heights (New York City neighborhood), 93–94, 225

anti-Semitic violence in, 100–101

ethnic enclaves in, 95

German-Jewish immigrants in, 88, 94–96, 113–14

HAK in, 99–100, 101–5, 106–11, 113

Jewish businesses in, 95

Jewish congregations in, 97–98

Kissinger family in, 98, 99, 102, 104

Washington Post, 374, 378–79, 392, 442, 521, 575, 658

Wassermann, Jakob, 39, 45–46, 49, 55

Watergate scandal, 35, 833

Watt, Alan, 8

weapons:

conventional, 249, 255, 344, 352, 353, 375, 413, 426, 428, 447, 451, 482

nuclear, see nuclear weapons

Weather Underground, 788

Webster, Charles, 310–11

Wehner, Herbert, 541–42, 711–12, 726

Wehrmacht, 155, 162, 169–70

Weidenfeld, George, 293, 695, 877

Weis, Jessica, 511

Weiss, Leonard, 122

Weizmann, Chaim, 71

Welch, Robert, 858

Werewolf groups, 163

Werewolf Radio, 163

Weser River, 162

West Berlin, 253, 357, 428, 483, 495, 568

JFK’s speech in, 573

U.S. garrison in, 496

Western Europe:

Communist parties in, 254

tactical nuclear weapons in, 346

Western New Guinea, 519, 520

West Germany, 24, 163, 253, 345, 357, 704

anti-Americanism in, 270

Berlin Crisis and, 485–87, 489–90

economic recovery of, 271

effects of nuclear attack on, 448

France and, 532–33, 568, 704, 713, 716–17, 720, 724

HAK’s ambivalence about, 486–87

HAK’s PSB report on, 269–71

HAK’s trips to, 427, 431, 526, 528–29, 540–41, 572, 707–17

military buildup in, 483

nationalism in, 541

in rapprochement with Soviet bloc, 703, 708–11

rearmament of, 424

U.S. distrusted by, 567, 568, 715–17, 718

Vietnam War and, 707–8, 712–13

Westmoreland, William, 614, 615, 649, 675, 680–81, 686, 742, 750, 751, 811, 812, 813

Wheeler, Earle, 669, 776, 811

White, F. Clifton, 597, 606, 607

White, Harry Dexter, 192

White, Theodore, 219–20, 824

Whitehead, A. N., 232

Whitehead, Don, 601

White House:

Situation Room in, 480, 861

West Wing of, 861

“White Revolutionary, The” (Kissinger), 694, 695, 696–99, 710

Whiting, Allen, 640

Whitman, Ann, 441

Whittier College, 437

Wiener, Anthony, 387

Wiesner, Jerome, 859

Wild, Robert, 63

Wilder, Thornton, 276

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Goethe), 865

Wilkinson, June, 14

Williams, G. Mennen, 677

Williams, William Appleman, 22

Wilson, Carroll L., 350

Wilson, Charles E., 378, 379

Wilson, Harold, 707, 748

Wilson, Woodrow, 125, 127, 430, 437, 497, 622

Winrod, Gerald B., 92

Wise, Stephen, 102

Wisner, Frank, 260, 264

Wittig, Hermann, 163

Wohlstetter, Albert, 569

Wolfe, Tom, 669

Wolfers, Arnold, 350, 352

women, HAK’s relationships with, 13–14, 55, 180, 201–2, 204, 225, 398–99

Wood, Ronnie, 5

Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 260–61, 262

World Affairs, 311

World Order (Kissinger), 28, 695

World Politics, 378

World Restored, A: Castlereagh, Metternich and the Problems of Peace, 1812–1822 (Kissinger), 291–92, 365, 694, 696, 732, 836, 838

on conservatism, 296–97

on diplomacy, 294–95, 305

on peace vs. stability, 304–5

on threat of force, 295

tragic view of history in, 298–99, 303

World War I, 49, 51, 58, 78, 124, 298, 317, 437

aftermath of, 38

HAK on causes of, 445, 482

World War II, 317, 320, 410, 872

Allied air superiority in, 140, 154

European theater in, 122, 137–68

Fürth in, 77–79

Normandy invasion in, 130, 133

Pacific theater in, 133, 172

U.S. entry into, 113, 133

Worstward Ho (Beckett), 767

Wright, Esmond, 449

Wright, Quincy, 311

Wylie, Larry, 405

Xuan Thuy, 815, 816

XXX Corps, British, 153

Yale University, 217, 258

Yalta Conference (1945), 171, 250, 356

Yarmolinsky, Adam, 15, 636, 661, 809, 858

Yeats, W. B., 230

Yemen, 518–19

Yeshiva College, 96–97

Yeshiva Rabbi Moses Soloveitchik, 99

Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, 99

Yom Kippur War, 10

Young Bavaria, 59, 64

Youth International Party (“Yippies”), 787

Yugoslavia, 254, 342, 359

Zalowitz, Nathaniel, 88

Zeit, Die, 858

Zgierz, Poland, 166

Zhou Enlai, 10, 676, 724, 744

Zinn, Howard, 8

Zionism, Zionists, 50, 69, 70–71, 97, 98–99

HAK’s views of, 106

Zorthian, Barry, 657, 659, 661, 690

* This is, admittedly, in part because Kissinger himself has tended to avoid the subject. In 2004 the historian Jeremi Suri asked him, “What are your core moral principles — the principles you would not violate?” Kissinger replied, “I am not prepared to share that yet.”

* Under the quotas imposed in 1924, the number of German immigrants could not exceed 2 percent of the existing German population in the United States, and no more than 10 percent of the annual quota could come in a given month. As a result, by the 1930s the German annual quota was 27,370, with a monthly maximum of 2,737. The events of 1938 led to a surge in applications: 139,163 by June 30, 1939; 240,748 by the end of the year. But the only way in was to get a quota visa from a U.S. consulate, which required proof that the applicant would not be a burden on the community — hence the need for affidavits from existing U.S. citizens.

*To speed up the process of learning, the family spoke only English at home and listened regularly to the radio in the apartment kitchen.

*Kissinger later told Andrew Schlesinger that he had been introduced to the game by “Italian friends.”

*Though dated February 1945, this long letter was in fact coauthored by himself and Fritz Kraemer much later — in January 1947—and was intended for publication. “Don’t let the names fool you,” he explained to his family. “I have merely chosen, for sentimental reasons, names of typical exponents of each category. The story is fictitious in the sense that none of the events happened all to one character & is true in the sense that most occurrences mentioned did happen” (Feb. 16, 1947). In other words, what the letter describes is an amalgam of the two men’s experiences, though these cannot have been too different under the circumstances.

*This passage was almost certainly written by Kraemer rather than Kissinger. The earlier exchange about “the art of seduction” also seems more likely to have come from Kraemer.

*Walter had returned home from the war even later than his brother. Having served with the 24th Army Corps at Okinawa and risen to the rank of sergeant, he accepted a job with the postwar government in Korea, where he was responsible for reopening the country’s coal mines. On returning to the United States, he studied at Princeton and later Harvard Business School — motivated, according to his mother, by “sibling rivalry.” In fact, it was Walter who first stated his intention to pursue a career in the diplomatic service, though he later opted for business.

*Kistiakowsky later served on the Ballistic Missiles Advisory Committee set up in 1953 and the President’s Science Advisory Committee created after the Sputnik crisis. From 1959 until 1960 he served as Eisenhower’s special assistant for science and technology. Kissinger later joked that if Kistiakowsky had only advised him to stick to science, “he could have kept me out of years of trouble by allowing me to become a mediocre chemist.”