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Needed: An Eisenhower? In November 1943, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met with considerable fanfare at Teheran. There, it seemed, the political and military guidance of the world for 1944 had been charted. As the year wore on, the luster of Teheran began to fade. There was a general cry for another meeting of the Big Three-but there was also a demand for an inter-Allied political command, modeled on the military structure of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington, or on the inter-Allied command machinery with which Eisenhower had planned and carried out the greatest achievement...
...Premier Stalin would not agree to coordinate the Red Army's operations with those of his western allies until he had a definite assurance that Britain would support Russia's claim to Polish territory as far west as the Curzon Line. . . In Teheran, Mr. Churchill and Premier Stalin divided Europe into spheres of British and Russian influence...
...Roosevelt's part in the deal in Teheran is not quite clear. It appears that he was not present at the time when Premier Stalin and Mr. Churchill reached their understanding on the division of the Balkans and the partition of Poland. But Mr. Churchill has said that at no time in all the negotiations to induce the Polish Government in London to acquiesce in the deal has Mr. Roosevelt indicated definitely that he would not go along. That is not to say that the Prime Minister indicated that the President ever gave his approval to a plan that...
...about Poland's future boundaries, diplomatic informants say. When Mr. Mikolajczyk pleaded for mercy by asking that Vilna and Lwow be included within Poland's frontiers, it is said, Mr. Molotov interrupted him by saying: 'There is no use discussing that; it was all settled in Teheran...
Moved perhaps by the season's religious spirit, the London Observer fast week described the Teheran agreement as "one of those great historic partition treaties of which the first example is given in Genesis 13: 8-9, beginning...