Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Charles Kersten of Wisconsin tried to familiarize him with the general idea by reading from Stalin's Problems of Leninism. "I'm afraid you're trying to indoctrinate me," Fitzgerald broke...
...This is Stalin talking," barked Kersten...
...said Fitzgerald with a grin. He added: "I don't know the first thing about Communism, I don't care what Stalin or Lenin said. I know nothing of the policies of the Soviet Union . . . I'm just a poor guy in the United States...
...Tentative Arrangements." At Yalta, Sherwood reminded his readers, F.D.R. was doing his utmost to enlist Russia's aid in the war against Japan (the atom bomb had not been finally developed). Stalin laid down his terms. In addition to Japanese-mandated southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, Stalin wanted title to the Chinese ports of Dairen and Port Arthur, use of the Manchurian railways. Otherwise Stalin did not see how he could ever explain to his people why Russia was going to war against Japan...
Sherwood reports: "Roosevelt said he felt that one of the difficulties of speaking the Chinese was that anything said to them was known to the whole world in 24 hours. Stalin agreed and said he did not think it was necessary to speak to the Chinese of these arrangements at this time." Stalin would first like to complete the movement of 25 divisions to the Siberian-Manchurian frontier. "Stalin said that the tentative arrangements concerning the Far East should be put in writing and this was accordingly done...