Word: kurils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal, made behind China's back, by which Russia got control of Manchurian ports and rail lines, and President Roosevelt agreed that he would see to it that China swallowed her cup of tea. Nor will most readers fail to wonder how F.D.R. could blandly turn over the Kuril Islands, which control the short air route from Alaska to the Far East. The explanation Stettinius gives: U.S. military chiefs urged Roosevelt to get Stalin into the war against Japan at any cost. In his zeal to give F.D.R. a clean bill of health, Big Ed forgets that...
...time when military necessity might have excused a hush-hush policy. While it had a military consideration (Russia's joining in the Japanese war), the agreement itself was as political as a pork barrel. Stalin's help in the Far East was to be rewarded with the Kuril Islands, an "independent" Mongolia and all Tsarist Russia's Far East rights. Roosevelt promised to get China's concurrence. This Yalta deal was the basis of last year's Sino-Russian pact (TIME...
State Secretary James F. Byrnes finally confirmed an old rumor. Meeting at Yalta. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had secretly agreed to pay Russia's asking price for eventually fighting Japan-outright annexation of the Kuril Islands and southern Sakhalin...
...Manchuria and elsewhere Russian forces bagged more than a half million Japanese troops. Soviet troops completed their occupation of the fog-bound Kuril Islands. In Moscow Stalin said the Kurils and the southern half of Sakhalin island would again become Russian territory...
Further, it looked as if Russia would get Japan's half of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands enclosing Russia's Okhotsk Sea. Russia's position in east Asia would return to about where it was in 1904 before the Russo-Japanese war. Stalin's imperialism had redressed the Tsars' imperial ineptitude...