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...more thoroughly than she could hope to destroy the U.S.-has been the ultimate deterrent to Russian military adventures. If the day of an ICBM standoff and of equal capacity for destruction is now dawning, new force will be given to Stalin's dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither of us wants war, but our strength is that you fear it more." Protected-at least in their own mind-by the umbrella of U.S. fear, the Soviets might well succumb to the temptation to test American resolution with brushfire wars against the weaker, and more vulnerable outposts...
...same time, Aneurin Bevan disclosed in London tonight that Nikita Khrushchev had outlined to him at Yalta on Sept. 16 an alleged four-stage plot by the United States for the Turkish occupation of Syria...
Describing the Russian people as "wonderful," Globetrotter Eleanor Roosevelt, 72, climaxed her first trip to the Soviet Union by interviewing Communist Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev for almost three hours at his summer villa on the Black Sea near Yalta. "War is unthinkable," Khrushchev told Mrs. Roosevelt, who called the hard-drinking, explosive Soviet leader "a cordial, simple, outspoken man who got angry at certain spots and emphasized the things he believed." But when Khrushchev accused her of hating Communists, Mrs. Roosevelt quickly replied: "Oh no, I don't. I don't hate anybody. I don't believe...
Chiang apportions blame among Russian maneuvers, Japanese aggression, Chinese dupes and traitors, U.S. naiveté-including Yalta's giveaway of Manchuria and the disastrous U.S. attempt (the Marshall mission) to mediate between the Nationalists and the Reds. But he does not dodge his own responsibility, charges himself with the basic fault of again and again having dealt with Russia and the Communists as men of good will. Each time the Chinese Reds were nearly defeated, "coexistence"' again saved them: "We were overconfident . . . We erred in being too lenient...
Onetime White House Aide (1943-45) Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, disclosed, on the twelfth anniversary of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that he had withheld from newsmen certain photographs made of F.D.R. at Yalta: "It was my job to screen those pictures and to release to the press only those least marked by the deadly, haggard weariness of the commander whose face . . . had so long been a symbol of confidence." In Los Angeles, recalling that she had seen some of the censored pictures, Eleanor Roosevelt did not concur: "I do not believe that [F.D.R...