Word: teheran
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Hopkins can more nearly, and possibly more fairly, be compared to Woodrow Wilson's Colonel House. Like House, Hopkins has been the eyes and ears of a war-time President, roaming the world, attending all the top conferences?Atlantic Charter, Casablanca, Cairo, Teheran and the two Quebecs. But there is a difference. William Allen White said of House: "His daily prayer was, 'Give us this day our daily compromise.'" Hopkins has more imagination, more drive, and, despite his fealty to the President, an innate stubbornness. There is another minor difference: House sought, created and finally landed his job of Presidential...
...Forces diplomat. He got along with the Russians, helped persuade them to give the Allies bomber bases. He got along with the British as Eisenhower's deputy air commander in London (the British refer to his tactical planning as "outstanding"). He was at the Quebec, Cairo and Teheran conferences...
...they were probably somewhat more realistic than the Allied governments. Stalin's intentions had been perfectly clear for months. He had high-pressured the London Poles, in the person of ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, to join his Lublin Committee-on Lublin's terms. He had informed his Teheran colleagues of his decision to establish a friendly regime in Poland. When they asked him to wait a little while, he had graciously acceded. But he had never changed his plans...
...Teheran, when the Pope's interest in certain measures was raised, Stalin is supposed to have asked: "How many divisions has he?" The Pope still has no divisions. But with 204 million Roman Catholics in Europe and 107 million in the Western Hemisphere, and with one of the ablest foreign offices in Europe, the Vatican's views on the peace will be taken into practical account...
...Example, from the New York Times: "Such large sections of the fronts surrounding Germany have remained quiescent for so long that they have inevitably raised the question . . . whether military operations are still proceeding in keeping with the agreement at Teheran...