<P> Born in Hamburg, Germany, he was educated at Middlesex School and Harvard University . He served in the Navy Flying Corps during World War I before entering a career in business . He was at the First National Bank of Boston between 1919 and 1921 . Between 1921 and 1929 he was Vice President at the International Acceptance Bank . He was president at the International Manhattan Company from 1929 to 1931, then president of the International Acceptance Bank from 1931 to 1932 . He was Vice Chairman of the Board at Bank of the Manhattan Company between 1932 and 1935 . </P> <P> While at the Bank of the Manhattan, he became financial adviser to President Roosevelt . This included acting as financial adviser at the 1933 London World Economic Conference . </P> <P> Warburg left government in 1934, having come to oppose certain policies of the New Deal . He was opposed to political non-interventionism, however, and re-entered government service in 1941 as Special Assistant to the Coordinator of Information, William Joseph Donovan . In 1942, when propaganda responsibilities were transferred to the Office of War Information, he became its Overseas Branch Deputy Director . After the end of the war, he wrote numerous books on U.S. foreign policy and was an outspoken advocate for nuclear disarmament . In 1963, along with Sears heir, Philip Stern, he helped to found the Washington - based Institute for Policy Studies . Warburg was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations . He gained some notice in a February 17, 1950, appearance before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in which he said, "We shall have world government, whether or not we like it . The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest ." </P> <P> In 1918, Warburg married composer and musician Kay Swift . Swift was a Protestant and Warburg's uncle, Jacob Schiff, objected to the marriage . They had three daughters: April Carlotta Warburg Gagliano, Andrea Warburg Kaufman, and Kay Levin . They divorced in late 1934 as a consequence of her long involvement with George Gershwin . In 1935, Warburg married his second wife, Phyllis Baldwin . On September 6, 1948, he married his third wife, Joan Melber, a Congregationalist, in a Christian ceremony . They had four children: James P., Jr., Jennifer, Philip, and Sarah Bliumis Dunn . Warburg is also the grandfather of novelist Katharine Weber, daughter of Andrea . </P>

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