Word: yalta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his 33-year career, Bohlen has shown a tough turn of mind, an eagerness to accept responsibility and a knack for survival. He mastered Russian in his 20s, served as Franklin Roosevelt's interpreter during the President's long, private talks with Stalin at Teheran and Yalta, and later performed the same duty for Harry Truman at Potsdam. In 1953, when President Eisenhower nominated him Ambassador to Moscow, Bohlen was attacked by Joe McCarthy, who charged that he had helped shape the controversial Yalta agreements. Although Bohlen insisted that he had acted only as an interpreter...
...more realistic. They combine an unflinching look at the grimness of life with a subdued hope for something better, an attitude that has spilled over into the other arts, including the best products (Ashes and Diamonds, Joan of the Angels?) of Poland's revitalized motion picture industry. "The Yalta agreement between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union," writes Editor Kuncewicz, summing up, "had the unexpected result of transforming Poland into a laboratory where the most incompatible elements of human destiny are melting into new forms of coexistence...
...left wing Greek government was crushed by Churchill in favor of the monarchy, Stalin looked on in stormy silence, though the West loudly decried Stalin's "friendly" regimes in Bulgaria and Rumania as unjust and undemocratic. Russia was expected once again to allow us a cordon sanitaire.> After Yalta agreements accepted the fact of governments friendly to Russia in Eastern Europe, Byrnes and Bevin initiated and conducted the great drive for free elections there. Then Churchill's Fulton speech, Truman's Containment and Devil theories, the Berlin blockade and the formation of NATO followed in regular fashion. On September...
...possible material assistance," his standing with the Soviets quickly rose. As the wartime ally of Stalin in the fight against fascism, Roosevelt was held up to the Russian people as one of a handful of Westerners who was a true friend of the Soviet Union. At the Teheran and Yalta conferences, Roosevelt turned on the charm to win Stalin's trust and cooperation ("I think I can handle Stalin personally better than my State Department"). As a result of agreements made at those meetings, in return for Russian promises that were later cynically broken, the way was cleared...
...Soviet Union had resumed nuclear testing even as their envoys were at the conference table in Geneva ostensibly trying to work out a permanent test ban. Kennedy also noted that Russia has never allowed the nations of Eastern Europe to have the free elections that were promised at Yalta and Potsdam...