Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominate for the Man of the Year, the guiding spirit and planner behind the motivations and machinations of Joe Communist, one Joseph Stalin of the U.S.S.R...
Essentially an optimist, Eisenhower thought at first that Russia and the West had a good chance of working out their postwar differences, tried hard in Berlin to make a go of it with Marshal Zhukov. The Marshal, he found, was merely a high-ranking Kremlin mouthpiece without authority, though Stalin himself said to Ike: "There is no sense in sending a delegate somewhere if he is merely to be an errand boy. He must have authority to act." Ike soon learned that the East-West ideological differences were irreconcilable, that adequate military defense would provide the only real security...
...Franklin Roosevelt said to Poland's Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk: "But of one thing I am certain. Stalin is not an imperialist." Mikolajczyk learned differently, and he told about it last week in his book, The Rape of Poland (Whittlesey; $4). The rough blocks of his story the world has known about: his battle against the Teheran deal in which Roosevelt and Churchill let Stalin take eastern Poland; his postwar struggle to survive as a leader of a coalition government that included Communists, and his final flight to the West...
...Back. Mikolajczyk tried to do business with Communists of high & low degree, and of all shades of temperament. Every experience boiled down to a doublecross. Most interesting doublecrosser was Stalin himself, not the bland, genial Stalin of the photographs, but an unpredictable Georgian who could rave one minute and cajole the next, but who never took his eye off the ball-control of Poland...
...incident alone illustrates Hopkins' enormous influence. On Oct. 3, 1944, Roosevelt had cabled Churchill implying that he (Churchill) could speak for the U.S. on Balkan affairs when he next saw Stalin. F.D.R. had written a cable to Stalin to the same effect; when Hopkins heard about it he ordered the White House map room to stop the Stalin cable. The cable officers obeyed without question. Then Hopkins went to F.D.R.'s bedroom, where the President was shaving, told him what he had done, and persuaded him that the U.S. should always speak for itself. Roosevelt admitted that...