Joseph E. Davies
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Joseph Edward Davies was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915 to be the first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. From 1936 to 1938, Davies was t
Davies in 1939
Joseph Davies at Shenandoah inquiry, November 1925.
Davies with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during his second "Mission to Moscow," May 1943.
Mission to Moscow
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Mission to Moscow is a 1943 propaganda film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the 1941 book by the former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies.
Joseph E. Davies
…you have found in temples of worship" to embrace the Soviet Union. Davies leveraged his diplomatic work in the Soviet Union to produce a popular book, Mission to Moscow. It was first published by Simon & Schuster in December 1941 and had thirteen reprintings. For the year 1942, the book ranked second in the U.S. in…
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Joseph Stalin (Manart Kippen) greets U.S. ambassador Joseph E. Davies (Walter Huston) in Mission to Moscow.
Victims of Stalin's purge trials of the 1930s were portrayed as Fifth columnists.