This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
American Statesman, U.S. Under Secretary of State, Diplomat, Ambassador to Japan, Turkey, Denmark, Switzerland
"Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present."
"If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer."