Word: yalta
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Critical Commitment. Then and now, the EAC and Yalta agreements have been severely criticized because they provided for no Allied access to Berlin through Soviet territory. The U.S. delegate to the commission, the late John G. Winant, strongly urged the State Department to demand some guarantee of access; his proposal was ignored, apparently because Washington felt that to insist on specific routes would limit the Allies only to those agreed-on roads or airlanes. At the time, Ike had no particular worries about access to Berlin, but on several occasions he strongly opposed the idea of separate occupation zones...
...House Un-American Activities Committee and made a series of accusations that changed the temper of his times. The accuser was a journalist named Whittaker Chambers. The accused was Alger Hiss, a longtime high-ranking State Department official who had been at Franklin Roosevelt's side at Yalta and had helped to write the Charter of the United Nations...
...particular, ex-Communist Chambers saw the threat of Communism clearly at a time when it was fashionable to talk of the Russians as nothing more than earnest Socialists. As early as March 5, 1945, hard on the heels of the Yalta Conference, TIME published a prophetic "political fairy tale" by Chambers that was called "The Ghosts on the Roof," in which he accurately predicted a ruthless, imperialistic Russia about to launch an offensive to conquer the world. Chambers' concern with evil could also take other forms. In a fanciful and humorous article for LIFE, Chambers pictured the Devil...
Eastern sector). The Big Three pact setting up the "Berlin area" was endorsed by the Yalta and Potsdam agreements and has the force of international law. Although the West still has no treaty providing for access to Berlin, Soviet leaders have time and again made written promises that there would be no hindrance to traffic on the three air routes, four highways, four railroads and two canals that link the dty to the Western world...
...Yalta. Richard Burton reads Churchill's words, and Gary Merrill narrates...