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...things in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1968) was the notion of a musical comedy called Springtime for Hitler. Now that conceit begins to look prophetic. In All This and World War II, viewers are invited in effect to sing along with the blitzkrieg, follow the bouncing ball to Yalta...
...promising political career. "The essence of our actions at home and abroad must be firmness and courage," he said at the time. "All must be ready to defend it." After replacing Chamberlain in 1940, Churchill returned Eden to his old post as Foreign Secretary. At the fateful conferences of Yalta and Potsdam, which set the frontiers of postwar Europe, Eden was always at Churchill's elbow -both as a colleague and as his heir apparent...
...Harvard swipes were the most by the Crimson since Potsdam and Yalta; to Penn's credit, however, it should be noted that rare was the play on which the Quakers committed more than one mistake...
...Hiss was well-launched on a brilliant career when scandal struck. He had been a student of Felix Frankfurter at Harvard Law School, secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, executive secretary at the Dumbarton Oaks conference that laid the foundation for the United Nations. He went to Yalta with F.D.R. in 1945, specialized in Far Eastern affairs at State, and was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when his world collapsed...
Museum of Our National Heritage, 33 Marrett Road, Lexington: "Masonic Symbols in American Decorative Art" tells the true story of Yalta, Chappaquiddick, and Rastafarianism...