Word: yalta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friday, August 27 FDR (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The Eagle and the Bear, a review of U.S. relations with Russia from 1933 to the Roosevelt-Stalin meeting at Yalta. Repeat...
Again and again, De Gaulle drew cheers by denouncing the Yalta agreements of 1945, which, as he put it, had created "the two hegemonies [Russia and the U.S.] which menace international peace." Again and again, he promised local mayors aid from Paris, usually in the form of light industries that would stanch the outflow of young people to the cities. In some villages, De Gaulle's rewards came in more substantial form than mere cheering: countrymen presented him with everything from a case of oysters to a brace of ducks...
Historians will surely mine the Eden memoirs for their occasional insights: Harry Hopkins' confiding in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, that the U.S. was already committed to joining the war; Eden's notes on the summit conferences at Yalta, Moscow and Teheran, his off-guard glimpses of world leaders playing at the game of war: "The Prime Minister's valet came into my bedroom and said: 'The Prime Minister's compliments, and the German armies have invaded Russia.' Thereupon he presented me with a large cigar on a silver salver...
Churchill was one of the "Big Three" who directed the Allies' war efforts. He and President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 signed the Atlantic Charter in 1941. Later Churchill met with other Allied leaders at Casablanca, Tehran, Quebec, and Yalta, and urged them to demand the unconditional surrender of Germany and to set up a United Nations Organization...
Murphy easily won the G.O.P. Senate nomination, and he has been campaigning tirelessly ever since. His pitch is Basic Barry. Liberals are "Fabian Socialists." Democrats are a conspiratorial sort, and the words Yalta and Potsdam fall easily from Murphy's lips as places and names of derision. On issues such as the nuclear test ban, federal aid to education and medicare, Murphy hews close to the Goldwater line, but he disagrees with Barry on the Civil Rights Act and foreign...