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...notes-one from the White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, one from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic- sought to justify their requests for seats and votes at the conference and in the future General Assembly. Nobody credited their pretensions to separate sovereignty; if the requests were granted, the Soviet Union would have three votes. But knowing delegates paid attention to both notes' emphasis on the war record and the sentiments of the White Russians and Ukrainians themselves...
...than 1,000,000 men massed before the Berlin sector. To the north were some 500,000 more-the armies of Marshals Alexander M. Vasilevsky and Konstantin K. Rokossovsky. which had flattened the East Prussia and Pomerania pockets. To the south, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's big First Ukrainian Army was launched to hurl itself toward Dresden. Against all this massive weight was the largest force the shredded Wehrmacht could muster: perhaps 900,000 men in formidable defense positions. But greater German forces had failed to stop the Red Army when its full weight was catapulted into action...
Another Strong Heave? All along the broad eastern front the Russians were seemingly ready for their own last strong heave. General Andrey I. Yeremenko's Fourth Ukrainian Army inched in on Teschen and the Moravian Gap entry to the Czech industrial complex. There were rumblings of readiness from Marshals Ivan Konev's and Georgi Zhukov's fronts before Dresden and Berlin...
...Soviet representatives at the Yalta conference indicated their desire to raise at the San Francisco conference of the United Nations the question of [additional] representation for the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and the White Russian Soviet Republic in the assembly of the proposed United Nations organization. The American and British representatives . . . agreed . . . but the American representative stated that if the United Nations organization agreed to let the Soviet Republic have three votes the United States would ask for three votes also. . . . The ultimate decision will be made [at San Francisco...
...best to be had. Stalin, said the President, at first asked for 16 additional votes-one for each of the Soviet Republics. When Mr. Roosevelt countered that he would then want a vote for each of the 48 states, Stalin settled for three: one each for the Ukrainian and White Russian Republics, one for the Soviet Union...