Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Tussaud's was shaken; their reputation for accuracy was at stake; if Stalin was too tall, they stood prepared to cut him down. Said Randolph Churchill, wartime liaison officer with Yugoslav guerrillas, "Having seen both Tito and Stalin, I would have no hesitation in asserting that Stalin is several inches shorter than Tito-and is certainly in no position to go around calling him a dwarf...
...good word with Premier Stalin himself (TIME, April 28, 1947). The Trib's new correspondent was Joseph Newman, veteran of the Japan and Argentina beats, who was already in Russia as a special correspondent for the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers and just stayed...
...wonderful party. With an assist from some of the 14,000 bottles of wine and vodka Stalin had sent down to Yalta, F.D.R., Churchill and Uncle Joe were letting their hair down. They were further cheered because they had closed some pretty big deals. The next day, Feb. 11, 1945, the Crimean Conference would be over. Reminiscing, F.D.R. told the others how his recovery program had prevented disorder, maybe even revolution in the U.S. Churchill observed that Russia's one-party system made politics easy for Stalin, and Uncle Joe allowed that one party was a great convenience. Perhaps...
...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 on Oct. 30, 1943, Stalin had promised Cordell Hull, with no strings attached, "clearly and unequivocally that, when the Allies succeeded in defeating Germany, the Soviet Union would then join...
...Cannot Allow." The Stettinius excuse for F.D.R.'s tragic weakness on the Polish issue is that the Russians were already in Poland. From a statesman, such reasoning seems to applaud the bankruptcy of statesmanship. Stalin was capable of straighter talk on the subject. Said he at Potsdam: "A freely elected government in any of these [eastern European] countries would be anti-Soviet, and that we cannot allow." U.S. readers may wonder why the U.S. delegation could not have guessed that as well as Stalin...