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...ending the state of war and establishing diplomatic relations. Also, he hinted, the Soviet Union might throw in two tiny islands north of Hokkaido that Russia has held since the end of World War II-but not the Kurils and southern Sakhalin, awarded to Stalin by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Yalta...
...Francisco Conference approached and the war in Europe waned, Truman began to be more concerned with international affairs. The Nazi armies were disintegrating, and Winston Churchill telephoned from Britain to discuss a peace feeler that had reached him from Heinrich Himmler. On his way to San Francisco, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov called at the White House and got an unexpected dressing down from Harry Truman. Russia was not living up to its Yalta agreement on the composition of the Polish government, and Truman had some testy comments to make about the necessity for keeping obligations. " 'I have never...
Cheerily waving his hat to an admiring crowd at London airport, Sir Winston Churchill took off with Lady Churchill two days after their 47th wedding anniversary for a vacation on the French Riviera, less than three hours later was motoring from Nice to the Cap-d'Ail villa of Lord Beaverbrook, where he will put up for a while...
...been a problem. I was taught with the aid of a famous English primer called Reading Without Tears, which was first published in England in 1857, and used by at least three generations of English children. But that it did not live up to its title is confirmed by Winston Churchill, who refers feelingly in his memoirs [A Roving Commission] to his early bouts with this primer. The pre-primer you mention as now being in use in Detroit schools sounds remarkably like our old primer, which also used simple drawings and rhymes. Cat, fat, bat, says the Detroit primer...
Promoted to serve as ambassador to Russia, then to Great Britain, Shigemitsu ineffectively opposed the runaway Japanese expansion into the Pacific that led to the crash of Pearl Harbor. He opposed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. In war-torn (1941) London Winston Churchill wrote of Shigemitsu: "His whole attitude throughout was most friendly . . . We have no doubt where he stands...