Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations

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299 Aandahl, Fred, 55, 248 Acheson, Dean, 201 Adams, Orson, Jr., 114 Africa, 97 African Americans, 13, 33, 59, 68, 119, 126, 131 Alameda Naval Air Station (in Calif.), 29 Alaska, 231 Albuquerque, N. Mex., 31 Alcott, Louisa May, 147 Aldrich, Winthrop, 181, 196 Alemán, Miguel, 211 Alexandria, Va., 253 Allan, Frank H., 238 America First Committee, 33, 69 American Association for the United Nations, 201 American Dilemma, 126 American identity, role in local-global connections, 88–100 American Revolution, legacy of, 19–21, 90, 133, 147–48, 157. See also Declaration of Independence, Independence Hall, Liberty Bell Anchorage, Alas., 231 Andersen, Hendrik C., 2 Anderson, Donald L., 252 Anderson, J. Alvin, Jr., 240 Andover, Mass., 238 Anti-Semitism, 92, 126, 131, 132 Apostle Islands, Wis., 255 Appomattox, Va., 131 Arab League, 209, 218 Architecture (world capital designs): Black Hills, 102–5; Chicago: 71–74; Great Lakes region, 63–68; New York City (Queens), 138, 198–99; New York City (the Bronx), 176–78; New York City (Manhattan), 220–25; Oklahoma, 102–3; San Francisco, 46–47; sketches by Le Corbusier, 186–87; Westchester County, N.Y., 162 Argentina, 37, 48, 49 Arizona, 231–32 Arkansas, 232 “Arsenals of democracy,” 12, 59, 70. See also Manufacturing Asbury Park, N.J., 243 Asheville, N.C., 248 Asia, 85, 97 Astor, William, 110 Atkinson, John B., 238 AtlanticCity,N.J.,15,88;alternateas interimsite,165–66;boostersin London,110–12;UNsitevisit,157–58 Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 243 Atlantic Union Movement, 60 Atlee, Clement, 170 Atomic bomb, 5, 36, 75–77, 81, 111, 113 Auburn, Mass., 128, 238 Austin, Warren F., 191–92, 201–2, 207–8, 212–18 Index 300 INDEX Australia: Canberra as model capital, 85, 129–31; leader of small nations, 45, 172; role in site selection, 50, 87, 111, 116, 127, 166, 172, 218 Austria, 161 Aviation: changing relationship between distance and time, 23, 52, 57–58, 86–87, 96–97, 106; dirigible, 160; new transportation hubs, 24, 54, 117–18; travel by air, 31, 107–9, 150, 205 Azores, the, 15 Bach, E. L., 236 Baguio, the Philippines, 75, 250 Bailey, Foster, 246 Bailey, Joseph, 248 Balance of power, Europe-U.S., 3, 23, 50, 83–87, 119, 124, 196, 202 Bald Head Island, N.C., 202, 248 Baldwin, Raymond E., 155–56, 168, 234 Baltimore, Md., 75, 238 Bar Harbor, Maine, 128, 135, 237 Barnstable, Mass., 238 Barnstone, Robert, 233 Baruch, Bernard, 251 Bassov, Nikolai D., 207 Battle Creek, Mich., 241 Bazinet, John, 245 Beall, Clarkson J., 246 Bear Mountain, N.Y., 172, 245 Bedford, Mass., 109, 160 Belgium, 84 Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 145 Bell, Piromis, 234 Bellamy, Lucy, 9 Bellamy, Paul E.: at Governors Conference , 52, 55–56; in London, 108, 110, 112–14, 118–19; in San Francisco, 40–41, 43, 51, 195; Man of the Year, 77; proposes Black Hills, 9–12, 13, 26; response to rejection, 128, 219–20. See also Black Hills region Bellamy, Lt. Paul Herbert, 9, 110 Belle Isle (Detroit), 13 Beloit, Wis., 81, 88, 255 Belmont, Mass., 238 Berg, Luvine, 102–5 Berkeley, Calif., 232 Berkeley Springs, W. Va., 172, 254 Berlin, Germany, 37, 48, 85 Berlin, Irving, 18 Berne, N.Y., 245 Berne, Switzerland, 85 Bernardi, Theodore C., 46–47 Bethlehem, Pa., 249 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 33 Beverly, Mass., 128, 159 Bishop, Ernest H., 247 Black Hills region, S.D.: campaign initiated, 10–12, 29; excluded, 51; mocked, 113, 121; persistence, 77, 128, 134, 146, 172–74; promoted at Governors Conference, 52–56; promoted in London, 108, 110–14, 118–19; promoted in San Francisco, 30, 40–41, 43–44, 195; promoted in Washington, 26; response to rejection , 219–20; site design, 102–5. See also Bellamy, Paul E.; Rapid City, S.D. Bloom, Sol, 202 Blue Hills, Mass., 92, 159, 165, 206–7, 240; rejected, 208 Blue Star Mothers, 24 Bohn, John L., 255 Boosterism: centrality arguments, 100–106; continuities, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 2, 221; contrasted with diplomacy, 82, 86–87, 107, 124, 140, 146–47; inversions of, 98, 190; place marketing, 221; as profession, 4, 11; role of press, INDEX 301 4, 23–24, 26, 43, 91, 109, 156, 199, 221; scholarship on, 257n2, 259n11, 272n15; skepticism about, 24–25, 121, 152; techniques, 2, 43, 58–63, 69–70, 80–82, 88–91, 98, 150–61, 178, 205–7; and UN, 107–22, 128–29, 166, 191–92, 219; in U.S...