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When the State Department made public the Yalta record (TIME, March 28), Senate Democrats hastened to defend Franklin D. Roosevelt's secret concessions to the U.S.S.R. by blaming his military advisers-notably General Douglas MacArthur. The fact that U.S. strategists urged Soviet entry into the Pacific war was taken to justify the Roosevelt deal made at Yalta. Senator Herbert Lehman attacked MacArthur, directly on the ground that he "urgently recommended that Soviet Russia be involved in the war against Japan." The two sides of the argument were talking about different questions: 1) Was it desirable that Russia enter...
...establishing diplomatic relations. Also, he hinted, the Soviet Union might throw in two tiny islands north of Hokkaido that Russia has held since the end of World War II-but not the Kurils and southern Sakhalin, awarded to Stalin by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Yalta...
...easy task to transform the cold, cruel look of Soviet Communism without altering its substance, and Khrushchev and Bulganin were obviously tuckered out from the months of effort it had required. Last week both left Moscow for a vacation; the Party boss went to Yalta and the Premier to Sochi in the Caucasus...
...Winston Churchill telephoned from Britain to discuss a peace feeler that had reached him from Heinrich Himmler. On his way to San Francisco, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov called at the White House and got an unexpected dressing down from Harry Truman. Russia was not living up to its Yalta agreement on the composition of the Polish government, and Truman had some testy comments to make about the necessity for keeping obligations. " 'I have never been talked to like that in my life,' " Truman says Molotov said...
...Stalingrad, after laying a wreath on a mass grave of Red army soldiers, Nehru was already complaining of "an exasperating day of dust and heat and painful war memories." Flown 500 miles southwest to the Crimea, he was taken aboard a yacht which cruised along the coast to Yalta, and he slept at the Livadia palace, where the Big Three signed their wartime pact. Wherever he paused along the route he was besieged by organized groups of chil dren dancing, singing and showering flow ers on his party...