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...Yalta, Stettinius gave a long lecture on the U.S. idea of joint trusteeship for some postwar colonies and bases. Churchill fidgeted, smoldered, finally exploded with a question to Stalin: "Now tell me, would you allow the Crimea to be placed under a mandate?" Stalin chuckled and said: "Well, I think I'd let the Big Three decide." Churchill cooled off, and Roosevelt got the talk back on the rails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A New Way of Doing Things | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...Yalta, Stalin for the first time dis cussed Pacific and Asiatic affairs with Roosevelt and Churchill. In the cozy glow of the Crimea, the Big Three presumably were not abashed by the change. But there was plenty of room for embarrassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: So Sorry, Mr. Sato | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...taught them "to keep a line, stay unbroken, hold [fire] until the word of command." Nearly a century later, at the Battle of Fontenoy, Coldstream muskets wiped out the entire front line of the French Guards in a single volley. The Guards served with distinction at Waterloo, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. In Nieppe Forest in 1918, a handful of Coldstreamers were ordered to stand up to the great German advance at all costs, and were wiped out almost to the last man. At Dunkirk they helped hold back the Nazis during the great evacuation. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coldstream of History | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...Crimea Conference's stern decision on German reparations-to exact payment in kind-had left the U.S. people waiting for a more detailed picture of official U.S. policy. Last week, although there was still no detailed statement of policy, they got a strong hint that Franklin Roosevelt was minded to go along with the Russians and, presumably, the British, in demanding a strict accounting for German destruction in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Price to Pay | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Harry Hopkins, long plagued by illness (a gastrointestinal -ailment), went straight to the Mayo Clinic after returning from the Crimea Comerence. The Clinic announced that he had "a slight recurrence of a nutritional condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 12, 1945 | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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