Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its gestures toward the French, the Crimea declaration made it clear that the Big Three did not yet rate France as one of the trustees, even in western Europe. Even the cordial paragraph inviting "the Provisional Government of the French Republic" to join in the guardianship of liberated Europe implied that the Big Three could get along without France...
...mood to do some snubbing of his own last week. He declined Franklin Roosevelt's invitation to a tête-à-tête in the Mediterranean. Then, with haughty suspicion, he proclaimed the French Empire's aloofness from any trilateral designs planned in the Crimea...
Something to Remember. As at Teheran, the eight days at Yalta were not all work. Roosevelt and Churchill talked, ate, drank together before the Marshal joined them. Then, between working sessions, came the toasts. One of Stalin's toasts named the gathering for history: "The Crimea Conference...
Rome established the primacy of law, created a thriving economy, spread the advantages of universal citizenship from Gibraltar to the Crimea, and made the family the rock of civil life. Yet the law was overthrown by barbarians, the international Roman economy succumbed to a renewed provincialism, and the old Stoic families took to licentiousness and ceased to reproduce themselves...
April 9, having pushed into Bessarabia, the Russians assault Odessa and push into the Crimea...