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Harry Dexter White

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Harry Dexter White
An American economist who served in a senior capacity at the Treasury Department. Following World War II, he was instrumental in the creation of the Bretton Woods System and the International Monetary Fund. He was a noted Keynesian who favored U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. He was later revealed to be a spy for the Soviet Union.
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Ernest Hemingway is characterized by the authors as the "dilettante spy," whose contacts with Soviet agent Harry Dexter White and other brushes with the Communist apparatus in the U.
Seeing reds by Raimondo, Justin / The American Conservative
The fruit of the labors of two men in particular, American Assistant Treasury Secretary Harry Dexter White and British economist John Maynard Keynes, the Bretton Woods conference, as much as any of the events in that momentous year, was to lay the foundation for a new international order after the Second World War, one that persists to this day.
Bretton Woods: while WWII raged in 1944, 44 delegations met to create ... by Scaliger, Charles / The New American
Moreira unravels several tangled aspects, including the Roosevelt administration's policy towards China during early WWII (particularly the roles of Harry Dexter White and Henry Morgenthau), the history of Chinese Communism and the anti-Communist policy of Chiang Kai-Shek, together with the relationship between the Communists and Nationalists, all extremely complicated for a westerner to untangle.
Hemingway on the China Front: His WWII Spy Mission with Martha ... by Zheng, Kaimei / The Hemingway Review
 
 
 
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