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...left wing Greek government was crushed by Churchill in favor of the monarchy, Stalin looked on in stormy silence, though the West loudly decried Stalin's "friendly" regimes in Bulgaria and Rumania as unjust and undemocratic. Russia was expected once again to allow us a cordon sanitaire.> After Yalta agreements accepted the fact of governments friendly to Russia in Eastern Europe, Byrnes and Bevin initiated and conducted the great drive for free elections there. Then Churchill's Fulton speech, Truman's Containment and Devil theories, the Berlin blockade and the formation of NATO followed in regular fashion. On September...
...possible material assistance," his standing with the Soviets quickly rose. As the wartime ally of Stalin in the fight against fascism, Roosevelt was held up to the Russian people as one of a handful of Westerners who was a true friend of the Soviet Union. At the Teheran and Yalta conferences, Roosevelt turned on the charm to win Stalin's trust and cooperation ("I think I can handle Stalin personally better than my State Department"). As a result of agreements made at those meetings, in return for Russian promises that were later cynically broken, the way was cleared...
...Soviet Union had resumed nuclear testing even as their envoys were at the conference table in Geneva ostensibly trying to work out a permanent test ban. Kennedy also noted that Russia has never allowed the nations of Eastern Europe to have the free elections that were promised at Yalta and Potsdam...
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...
...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...