Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sohn said in a letter to the New York Times that the Yalta papers furnished important information on the early background of the U.N., but found it "strange" that the material from the Dumbarton conference, which formed the basic plans for the U.N. charter, had not been made public first. He said, "After the printing of the Yalta papers, there is no longer any valid excuse for withholding the Dumbarton Oaks papers from the public...
...Background. Their private conferences at Yalta had a background that revealed Roosevelt's willingness to expand the Russian position in the Far East, where the defeat of Japan and the civil war in China were to create a power vacuum...
...Background. A fiercely independent people without natural east or west frontiers, the Poles had been four times partitioned among their stronger neighbors. Their anti-Russian feeling had been fanned anew by the fourth partition, the German-Russian Pact of 1939, which started the war. In addition, as Roman Catholics, the Poles were strongly opposed to Communism...
...Issues. Out of this background issued two questions for Yalta: 1) the Polish boundaries, and 2) the even more important question of whether Poland would have its own government or be ruled by Russian stooges...
...group of staffers started to copy Volume II (the conference record) page by page on the office Thermo-Fax machine ordinarily used to copy letters and other single sheets of paper. Meanwhile, Staff Photographer George Tames was put to work photographing Volume I (the background papers). As duplicates came off the Thermo-Fax machine, five Teletype operators began sending the conference record over the Times's leased wires to New York. They worked all night, and by next day had 14 additional Western Union circuits operating at one time to New York. They tied up so many wires that...