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...long voyage home Franklin Roosevelt, sunning himself on the cruiser's deck, had made a decision to report to Congress on Yalta, in person and as soon as possible. Except for the blow of Pa Watson's death, he had returned from the Crimea refreshed in body, mind and spirit. Thirty-six hours after his return, he went to the House chamber...
...three great powers . . . that while they were responsible for bearing to an overwhelming degree the main brunt and burden of the conduct of the war . . . they could not allow any restriction to be placed on their right to meet together.... France may . . . find many reasons for contentment with the Crimea decisions...
Russia. "The impression I brought back from the Crimea is that Marshal Stalin and the other Soviet leaders wish to live in honorable friendship and democracy with the western democracies. . . . Terrible indeed would be the fortunes of mankind if some awful schism arose between the western democracies and the Russian people...
...Three are not too big to be defied by the London Poles. Last week the flag of defiance was boldly waved by Polish General Wladyslaw Anders, an Allied field commander in Italy. Before Winston Churchill had returned from Yalta, Anders denounced the Crimea verdict. Publicly he declared: "The Government ... in London [is] the only legal Government of the Polish State...
...newsmen, Jimmy Byrnes disclosed some new facts about Franklin Roosevelt's activities in the Crimea (see INTERNATIONAL). He said the President had: 1) chairmanned the conference; 2) devised the compromise on the Dumbarton Oaks voting formula; 3) written the section on treatment of liberated countries. Later the assistant President went to Capitol Hill, talked over Yalta with Senators and Representatives of both parties. Among his guests at a Senate lunch: Montana's articulate, isolationist Burton K. Wheeler, who seemed impressed if not satisfied with what he heard...