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...members after World War II only to decline rapidly (current membership: 240,000) in the face of European prosperity, until, suffering from chronic ill health, he "elevated" himself to president last May, leaving everyday tactics to another man; of an apparent heart attack aboard a Russian ship traveling to Yalta for a vacation...
Whatever the answer, legend has it that Sir Winston Churchill long ago offered the definitive riposte to those Russian buggers. At Yalta, warned that his room was bound to be wired, he strolled up and down, shouting at the walls: "Baboons! Baboons...
...well to remember that Stalin, too, practiced a form of peaceful coexistence when he entered the popular fronts with the hated Socialists abroad during the '30s and fought alongside the hated capitalists in World War II. The West paid a price for this at Teheran and Yalta. It is not impossible that Khrushchev will present his own bill some...
...Bryan Dorn, who said last week that he heard it ex plained by MacArthur in 1956. Mac-Arthur, said Dorn, urged Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles to threaten Rus sia with complete rearmament of Germany and Japan, "possibly including nuclear power," unless Russia agreed to live up to its Yalta and Potsdam promises to allow political self-determination by the peoples of Eastern Europe...
...shares some of de Gaulle's misgivings about the dependability of a supra-national nuclear force, under the direction of the United States. "In the light of the somewhat inconsistent moves of the American ally in the past, I find de Gaulle's fears of a suicide a la Yalta to be justifiable," Hoffmann said...