8 GFK to Grace Wells, October 17, 1938, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK Diary, October 23, 1938; GFK personal notes, October 1938, in GFK, From Prague After Munich, p. 4.
9 GFK undated memoir, “Prague—Munich to Occupation, 1938–1939,” pp. 12–13, GFK Papers, 240:3; GFK to JKH, November 14, 1938, ibid., 23:10.
10 GFK to JKH, November 14, 1938, ibid.; GFK undated memoir, “Prague—Munich to Occupation, 1938–1939,” pp. 12–16, ibid., 240:3.
11 Ibid., pp. 16–19.
12 ASK to JKH, December 10, 1938, and February 6, 1939, JEK Papers; GFK to JKH, December 28, 1938, GFK Papers, 23:10.
13 GFK personal notes, October 1938, in GFK, From Prague After Munich, pp. 4–5.
14 GFK personal letters of December 8, 1938, and January 6, 1939, in ibid., pp. 9, 11. See also Raymond E. Cox to State Department, January 12, 1939, and Wilbur J. Carr to State Department, February 1, 1939, both drafted by GFK, in ibid., pp. 29–31, 38–39.
15 GFK to State Department, February 17, 1939, in ibid., pp. 46–50, 56.
16 GFK personal notes, March 21, 1939, in ibid., pp. 80–87; GFK interview, September 7, 1983, p. 6; ASK to JKH, March 18, 1938, JEK Papers; GFK to JKH, March 24, 1939, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK undated memoir, “Prague—Munich to Occupation, 1938–1939,” p. 45, ibid., 240:3; ASK interview, December 14, 1987, p. 14.
17 GFK to State Department, March 29 and 30, 1939, in GFK, From Prague After Munich, p. 94; GFK, “The Prerequisites,” pp. 4–5, GFK Papers, 240:4.
18 Irving N. Linnell to chargé d’affaires in Berlin (drafted by GFK), April 14, 1939, and to Department of State (drafted by GFK), May 23, 1939, in GFK, From Prague After Munich, pp. 117–18, 178.
19 GFK to State Department, March 29, 1939, Linnell to State Department (drafted by GFK), May 23, 1939, ibid., pp. 98, 173–74.
20 GFK to State Department, May 1, 1939, in ibid., pp. 135–38.
21 GFK to Robert Coe, March 30, 1939, GFK to State Department, April 26–27, 1939, Linnell to State Department (drafted by GFK), May 10, 1939, all in ibid., pp. 103–4, 133, 150.
22 GFK to State Department, May 15, 1939, in ibid., pp. 169–71.
23 Messersmith to GFK, June 27, 1939, GFK Papers, 140:10; GFK, Memoirs, I, 128.
24 GFK, “The War Problem of the Soviet Union,” March 1935, GFK Papers, 250:1; Linnell to American chargé d’affaires in Berlin (drafted by GFK), in GFK, From Prague After Munich, pp. 88–91; Linnell to State Department (drafted by GFK), May 23 and June 6, 1939, ibid., pp. 177, 183. See also GFK, Memoirs, I, 100–101. For the Herwarth affair, see Bohlen, Witness to History, pp. 67–87, and Herwarth and Starr, Against Two Evils, pp. 153–62.
25 GFK to Messersmith, April 7, 1939, GFK Papers, 250:4; GFK to Jay Pierrepont Moffatt, May 10, 1939, ibid., 140:10.
26 GFK Diary, June 8–14, 1939. See also GFK, Sketches from a Life, pp. 57–58.
27 Linnell to State Department (drafted by GFK), August 19, 1939, in GFK, From Prague After Munich, p. 217; ASK to JKH, July 10, 1939 and to CKB, September 5, 1939, JEK Papers; GFK to JKH, September 16, 1939, GFK Papers, 23:10.
28 GFK, Memoirs, I, 105.
29 ASK to JKH, October 24, 1939, JEK Papers; GFK, Memoirs, I, 107–8; GFK to JKH, November 14, 1939, GFK Papers, 23:10.
30 Ibid.; ASK to JKH, February 18, 1940, JEK Papers.
31 GFK to JKH, November 14 and December 9, 1939, GFK Papers, 23:10.
32 GFK to JKH, December 31, 1939, ibid.
33 GFK, Memoirs, I, 115–16; GFK Diary, February 24, and March 4, 1940; GFK to JKH, April 15, 1940, ibid., 23:10. For the Welles mission, see Gellman, Secret Affairs, pp. 166–202.
34 GFK untitled paper, February, 1940, GFK Papers, 240:5, GFK Diary, February 24 and 26, 1940. See also GFK, Memoirs, I, 116–19.
35 GFK to JKH, February 13 and March 7, 1940, GFK Papers, 23:10.
36 GFK to JKH, April 15, 1940, ibid.; ASK interviews, August 26, 1982, p. 9, and December 14, 1987, p. 22.
37 Ibid.; GFK Diary, May 4, 1940. GFK dates the departure incorrectly in his Memoirs, I, 123–24.
38 GFK Diary, May 6, 8, 10, 14, 17, 1940.
39 Ibid., June 10, 1940.
40 Ibid., June 14, 15, 16, 1940. See also GFK, Memoirs, I, 124–27; and GFK, Sketches from a Life, pp. 66–68.
41 GFK Diary, July 2, 3, 1940; also GFK, Sketches from a Life, pp. 70–74.
42 GFK Diary, August 26–September 6, 1940; GFK to JKH, November 5, 1940, GFK Papers, 23:10; Masarik, Le dernier témoin de Munich, pp. 417–18. I am indebted to my Yale student Rene Bystron for this reference.
43 GFK report, “A Year and a Half of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia,” October 1940, in GFK, From Prague After Munich, pp. 226–40.
44 GFK, Memoirs, I, 119–23; GFK to G. van Roon, March 14, 1962, GFK Papers, 56; GFK interview, August 25, 1982, p. 8; Herwarth and Starr, Against Two Evils, pp. 177–78.
45 GFK to Jacob D. Beam, October 17 and November 8, 1940, GFK Papers, 140:9. See also Miner, “His Master’s Voice,” in Craig and Loewenheim, Diplomats, p. 78.
46 GFK to JKH, October 21, 1940, GFK Papers, 23:10.
47 ASK interview, August 26, 1982, pp. 9–10; “Kennan Kept Busy in Berlin,” Milwaukee Journal, February 6, 1941.
48 ASK to JKH, March 23, April 13, and June 5, 1941, JEK Papers; JKH interview, p. 19. The travel dates are from GFK’s personnel file, DSR-DF 1940–44, 123K36/338, 342, and 345, but see also GFK to JKH, May 4, 1941, GFK Papers, 23:10.
49 ASK to JKH, April 13 and June 5, 1941, JEK Papers. See also GFK, Memoirs, I, 124.
50 ASK interview, December 14, 1987, p. 23; GFK interview, August 25, 1982, p. 6; JLG diary, December 14, 1987.
51 JKH to JLG, August 12, 1983; GFK to JKH, August 6 and September 5, 1941, GFK Papers, 23:10.
52 GFK to JKH, August 17, September 5, and October 29, 1941, ibid., 23:10. For the island, see ASK to JKH, May 31, 1935, JEK Papers; ASK interview, December 14, 1987, p. 26.
53 Vassiltchikov, Berlin Diaries, p. 53; GFK, Memoirs, I, 130–34. For American warnings to the Soviet Union, see Heinrichs, Threshold of War, pp. 21–23, 56.
54 MacLean, Joseph E. Davies, pp. 71–79. See also Davies, Mission to Moscow. Davies had stepped down as ambassador in June 1938.
55 GFK interview, September 7, 1983, p. 9; GFK to ASK, October 21, 1941, in GFK, Sketches from a Life, p. 75.
56 GFK interview, September 7, 1983, p. 9.
57 GFK, Memoirs, I, 134.
58 GFK to James W. Riddleberger, November 20, 1941, GFK Papers, 140:8.