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...Treaty of Versailles at the end of the first World War. During the second, Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the most widely-traveled U.S. presidents in history, journeyed all over the world to confer with leaders about the conflict. In 1945, near the end of WWII, he attended the Yalta Conference in the Soviet Union with the other Allied leaders, and the end result was the partition of Germany and the creation of the United Nations. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fulfilling a campaign promise, traveled to Korea as President-Elect in December 1952 - the Korean War ended seven months later...
...leader; letters he wrote in his native Georgian language; and an edition of the works of Immanuel Kant inscribed by the author. The museum also houses the 1930s-era armor-plated Pullman railway carriage that carried the Soviet dictator to famous the historic World War II summits at Yalta and Tehran...
...warehouse that keeps the company's archives. When a business has been around since 1818, you wind up with a lot of history?especially when you're talking about the retailer that sold Abraham Lincoln the overcoat he wore to Ford's Theatre, F.D.R. the cape he donned at Yalta, Fred Astaire the neckties he used as belts and generations of men the suits they wore to their first jobs on Wall Street...
...American, rounded-shoulder versions, and last fall Del Vecchio signed cutting-edge designer Thom Browne to create 50 pieces a season. That doesn't mean, though, that Browne will stray far from the company's DNA. Dipping into the archives, he found inspiration in the cape F.D.R. wore at Yalta, and as a result, come September, Brooks will sell black twill capes with fur collars...
...argues that her government "is more clear-eyed about Russia's record on democracy and freedom of expression, not to mention Chechnya." Despite Germany's interest in placating Russia and doing business there, Merkel would never think of giving Russia a free hand in its own backyard - a second Yalta, as some Russian commentators have called it. Nor could any other G-8 leader. Secret deals to divide up the world "just aren't how Western governments or public opinion work nowadays," says Lyne. There's no simple way to solve the complex challenges a buoyant but flawed Russia poses...