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Actually, one cannot help but suspect the motives of the Whig-Clio Society in asking Hiss to speak in the first place. While his comments on the Geneva Conference were undoubtedly interesting, his own position at Yalta was so unimportant as to make him anything but an expert on international conferences. More than anything else, Hiss was controversial, and all the hoopla surrounding the speech seems to be exactly what the Whig-Clios bargained...
...action takes place among massive stone arches, against a brooding Verona-like background-actually the hills of the Crimea, near Yalta. To the tune of Prokofiev's rather overexalted music, and the gentle narration of a voice in English, the plot thickens speedily; servants of the feuding Montagues and Capulets meet and taunt one another into a brawl that fills the square. Soon the entire cast is introduced: Romeo, handsome and brawny; Friend Mercutio, here a playboy with wonderfully impudent toes; Tybalt, an arrogant, bloodthirsty Capulet; the stony senior Capulets and Montagues; and, last and best, Ulanova...
...theoretically been worthless. Yet hope springs eternal, and several thousand bonds are annually traded on the American Stock Exchange, where they move up and down according to the temperature of U.S.-Soviet relations. The Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939 sent the $1,000 bonds to $1.86, their bottom; the Yalta honeymoon with the U.S. (1945) raised them to a peak $220. They dropped to $20 in the 1950 cold war, rose to $125 on the strength of last summer's Geneva spirit, are currently quoted at $53-75-Periodically, the Soviets talk about honoring the obligation...
...much in Stalin's trust that he was made top security man in the Kremlin. In this role Comrade Kruglov appeared at the Teheran Conference, where he kept close to Stalin's side. He was Molotov's personal bodyguard at San Francisco. He was at Yalta and at Potsdam, where he was introduced to President Truman and received an autographed portrait. Allied newsmen remember his great belly laugh and piercing eyes, noted that he carefully concealed a halting knowledge of English. But for his expertness in security the U.S. awarded him the Legion of Merit, the British...
...Tomasz Arciszewski, leader of the Polish government-in-exile in London, addressed a telegram to Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yalta. Perhaps the most forlorn of the 43 documents, the telegram shows how the U.S. and Britain might at least have emerged from Yalta with honor...