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...Face of History. He was a little man (5 ft. 5 in.), two inches taller than Napoleon. But most Americans discovered this fact (to their surprise) only after the Teheran conference. For some 20 years before that, Americans had known Stalin chiefly from a few carefully posed photographs which made him look tall, and from Soviet statues and paintings which were invariably heroic. To the western world Stalin was chiefly a face and a focus for disturbing rumors...
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When President Roosevelt went to Teheran in 1943, he took 50 detective stories along. For his 1945 conference with Churchill and Stalin he planned to take with him some of the most genial English essays in modern literature: The English Spirit by Alfred Leslie Rowse, Fellow of Oxford's All Souls College...
President Roosevelt is going to his second Big Three meeting with an asset he did not have in full measure at Teheran. He takes with him the crystallized support of the U.S. people for everything that he may need to do to establish the U.S. in the world's postwar business. The only question is what he intends to do with his unique grant of power...
...three days before the Term IV inaugural but published two days after it, told how Franklin Roosevelt "played his part in the ritual like a veteran bridegroom. I was there. . . ." In his second try, Wonderboy Welles professed accurate knowledge of what Stalin had told his Big Three partners-at Teheran, Churchill and Roosevelt had wanted to refer a matter to their experts; Stalin rejoined: "Can't we three decide anything...