n September 1939, just over a
week after Hitler's invasion of Po-
land and Britain's declaration of
war, Walter Mallory, the executive
director of the Council on Foreign
Relations, and Hamilton Fish Arm- strong, the editor of its journal, Foreign Af- fairs, went to Washington to see how the Council could help prepare America for what they expected would be another world war. Meeting with high State Depart- ment officials, they worked out an unprece- dented arrangement under which the Council w...