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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...
Died. Palmiro Togliatti, 71, boss of Italy's Communist Party since World War II; following a stroke; near Yalta, Russia (see THE WORLD...
...Peking splinters in his own party. But he believed it would be a tactical mistake to try to drum China out of the Communist bloc. That was perhaps what he hoped to talk about to Nikita Khrushchev when he started on a Black Sea vacation early this month. Near Yalta, two weeks ago, he suffered a stroke while visiting a Communist youth camp. Soviet doctors said he was too ill to be moved from the camp infirmary, and there last week, at 71, Togliatti died after exploratory brain surgery...