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...volume with his Reminiscences of Chekhov and Andreyev and a few minor items translated for the first time. In 1900, when he was a young and promising writer of stories, Gorky went to call on the great novelist, later spent some time near Tolstoy's home in the Crimea. Perhaps he had expected to find a dull old vegetarian disguised in a peasant's smock and spouting platitudes. He found instead a henpecked, shriveled, electrifying man with "shaggy" eyebrows, "wonderful" hands, a passion for card games, a "shocking" coarseness of speech...
...many cases appear to point to the complicity of the Polish Security Police. ... I regard it as imperative that the Polish Provisional Government should put an immediate stop to these crimes in order that free and unfettered elections may be held as soon as possible, in accordance with the Crimea decision. ... I am looking forward to the end of these police states...
...from Yalta. That was the key conference of World War II. Jimmy Byrnes was not only there; he was therewith pad & pencil in hand. His shorthand notes are still the best record-in the U.S., at least-of what went on at the Czar's Palace in the Crimea...
...contrast was instructive. When the Big Powers concerned themselves solely with the structure and interplay of world power, agreement was always possible. When they concerned themselves with the morals of power, agreement seemed easy in the preliminary stage of words (i.e., the Crimea declaration on Poland; some of the charter amendments approved last week). But when they got down to cases on such issues, the deep differences between the Soviet Union and its principal allies came nakedly to the fore, and agreement was difficult if not impossible...
Lesson in Semantics. The rough course of the Polish negotiations had been a lesson in Big Three relations. It all went back to the Crimea Declaration's wording of the agreement reached at Yalta by President Roosevelt. Churchill and Stalin...