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With respect to the frontiers, Helsinki ratified nothing that had not been ratified before, at Yalta, Potsdam and in the peace treaties. The Soviet political position in Eastern Europe depends on military predominance, and on history since 1950, which has made it clear that the Soviet Union would not tolerate a breakaway from its form of government and that the West would not intervene if the Soviet Union asserted itself militarily...
...Russia in 1941. A superb p.r. man, Maisky donated the Soviet embassy's iron railing to Britain's wartime scrap drive and was once serenaded with the Internationale by British armament workers. Returning in 1943 to serve as Stalin's Deputy Foreign Minister, Maisky attended the Yalta and Potsdam conferences before finishing his career as an academic specialist in Far East history...
After his landslide victory in November 1944 over Dewey (who was "a son of a bitch," he said to Aide William Hassett), Roosevelt was exhausted. Still, in January he journeyed by sea and air to the Crimea for the Yalta Conference, the most momentous of the wartime meetings with Stalin and Churchill...
Even so, Bishop believes that Roosevelt got what he wanted at Yalta: agreement, however vague, on how to deal with postwar Germany; Stalin's promise to enter the war against Japan; and an accord on the formation of the United Nations. When Stalin soon broke his promises to let Eastern Europeans choose their own destinies, Roosevelt concluded realistically that there was very little he could have done about it. Discussing Yalta, he told one intimate: "I didn't say it was good. I said it was the best I could...
Private Trial. After Yalta, Roosevelt failed rapidly. His one solace in early 1945 was the willowy and gracious Lucy Rutherfurd, then 52, whom he had loved since World War I, when she was social secretary to his wife Eleanor. In 1918, Eleanor had found a packet of scented love letters to her husband from Lucy. Screaming shrilly, according to Bishop, Eleanor confronted F.D.R. in his bedroom while their son Elliott, then seven years old, cowered near by. "Please, Babs, please," Roosevelt begged. "The dinner guests are downstairs...