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...Alliance intact through his own skillful brokerage. Aware of what Roosevelt and his advisers were doing, Churchill had to half-muzzle himself. If he opposed the Russians too strongly, Roosevelt would swing to their side. At one point in the Yalta proceedings, the record shows that Harry Hopkins slipped Rcosevelt a note: "The Russians have given in so much at this conference that I don't think we should let them down. Let the British disagree if they want to." Admiral William D. Leahy, presidential chief of staff, who attended the conference, said that Roosevelt at Yalta "showed great...
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