Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Optimism. Moscow's confidence stemmed from more than armed victory. Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden arrived for the eagerly awaited conference with Viacheslav Molotov. With Hull, in four planes, came the new U.S. Ambassador, W. Averell Harriman, the State Department's experts on Russian, Baltic, Balkan affairs and the Secretary's friend and adviser James C. Dunn. Also among the arrivals were Major General John R. Deane, U.S.A., secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs, and Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, Winston Churchill's personal Chief of Staff. In Africa was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury...
Nothing less than a definite promise of earlier action than is now planned will satisfy the Russians. Whether Messrs. Eden and Hull can make such a promise is doubtful. Allied military specialists will be conferring at the same time, but even they probably cannot add much to the detailed information on Anglo-U.S. plans which the Russians already have...
There are limits to what these men can actually accomplish. This conference is a preliminary: the positive accomplishments must be left to Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, when & if they meet. But there is no limit to what Hull, Eden and Molotov can fail to accomplish. If they do fail-and they may -their failure will be reflected in the fires of World War II, and in that war's aftermath. If they succeed, Messrs. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin will then have their historic chance to make World War II a victory for all the Allies...
...beyond these areas are lands which may well be subject to discussion: Poland, the Balkan countries of Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia; the remainder of Poland; Hungary; Czecho-Slovakia. It is there that Messrs. Eden and Hull may find both their greatest dangers and their greatest opportunities for immediate, concrete discussion with Molotov...
...Washington and London have been-to say the least-out of touch with the tremendous democratic resurgence which sprang from the pressures of war and oppression in German Europe. Perhaps Washington and London now recognize the facts of 1943 life in Occupied Europe.* But to satisfy the Russians, Messrs. Eden and Hull must submit believable evidence...