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James Warburg was born in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Paul Moritz Warburg, a banker, and Nina Jenny Loeb. His parents brought him to the United States in 1901, and he was naturalized in 1911.
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James Warburg was born in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Paul Moritz Warburg, a banker, and Nina Jenny Loeb. His parents brought him to the United States in 1901, and he was naturalized in 1911.
He attended Columbia Grammar School, New York City, and Middlesex School, Concord, Massachussets, until 1913. He graduated in 1917 with a B. A. from Harvard University.
After working briefly as a passenger agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, he joined the navy in 1917 as a seaman; he was later commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy Flying Corps. While in training as a combat pilot, he developed a new type of aero compass and was assigned to Washington, D. C. , to supervise its production. Warburg began his banking career with the National Metropolitan Bank in Washington, D. C. , in 1918. He moved to the First National Bank of Boston in 1919 as a bookkeeper and rose to assistant cashier by 1921, when he left to become vice-president of the International Acceptance Corporation in New York City, a firm founded by his father. International Acceptance specialized in financing international trade by means of bankers' acceptances issued under letters of credit. In 1928 International Acceptance was amalgamated with the Bank of Manhattan Company, the securities affiliate of the Bank of Manhattan. In 1931 and 1932 Warburg was president of the International Acceptance Bank, and from 1932 through 1935 he served as vice-chairman of the board of the Bank of Manhattan Company. In 1933 Warburg, a lifelong Democrat, joined President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "brain trust" as a financial adviser. His initial assignment was to determine which banks were sufficiently sound to merit reopening after the bank holiday. He assisted in reforming the banking system and analyzed industrial recovery proposals. Warburg prepared the agenda for the World Economic Conference in London and served as monetary adviser to the American delegation to the conference but resigned when President Roosevelt rejected a return to the gold standard. Warburg began to criticize Roosevelt's fiscal policies in best-selling books such as The Money Muddle (1934) and It's Up to Us (1934). In 1936 he opposed Roosevelt's reelection in a series of syndicated newspaper columns and in two books, Hell Bent for Election (1935) and Still Hell Bent (1936). In 1937 Warburg began a career as a freelance originator of industrial financing in New York City. His greatest success was finding financing for Edwin H. Land, the inventor of the Polaroid process, which reduced the intensity of light passing through plastic. Warburg invested heavily in the Polaroid Corporation (eventually making a fortune) and served on its board of directors. In 1939 Warburg grew concerned about American isolationism and neutrality. Despite his earlier disagreements with Roosevelt, he supported the president's foreign policy in two books, Peace in Our Time (1940) and Our War and Our Peace (1941). He became a leading spokesman for the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies and helped found the Fight for Freedom Committee, which called for immediate American entry into World War II. In 1941 Warburg debated Charles Lindbergh of America First, an isolationist organization, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Appointed special assistant in the Office of Coordinator of Information, Warburg worked in the development of propaganda and assembled a foreign-language staff for the Foreign Information Service. In July 1942 he was appointed deputy director of the overseas branch of the Office of War Information in London, with responsibility for propaganda aimed at the Axis powers and at occupied European nations. Warburg left government service in February 1944 and wrote the first of a series of books in which he advocated the continuation of Roosevelt's policies as the best means of maintaining peace. He also worked for Roosevelt's reelection that year. Warburg became critical of the foreign policy of President Harry S. Truman, who, Warburg believed, had moved away from Roosevelt's cooperation with the Soviet Union and from adherence to the Atlantic Alliance. Warburg was an early and vocal critic of the Truman Doctrine and of the idea of the United States as a global policeman. In 1947 Warburg helped form and became director of the United World Federalists (UFW), an organization skeptical of the United Nations' ability to maintain peace. The Federalists called for a stronger international organization with universal membership and weighted representation, world government, total disarmament, abolition of national armies, and world law. Frustrated by the unwillingness of many members to speak out on government actions, Warburg distanced himself from the UWF and began a series of books examining American foreign policy. He opposed containment and favored accommodation with the Soviet Union and Communist China in the interest of peace. In 1960 Warburg supported John F. Kennedy for president, and in 1961 he was appointed to assist John McCloy, who was forming a new Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and was negotiating with the Soviet Union. Warburg provided the president with ideas for speeches on disarmament and on the establishment of world peace. He died in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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On June 1, 1918, he married Katharine Faulkner Swift, from whom he was divorced in 1934. They had three children. In April 1935 Warburg married Phyllis Baldwin Browne. They had no children and were divorced in 1947. On August 28, 1948, Warburg married Joan Melber. They had four children.
