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...Britain, the Foreign Office had argued strongly against publication of the Yalta papers. "It is undesirable," said the Foreign Office, to publish so detailed a record "so short a time after . . . and particularly during the lifetime of many of the participants . . . Some of the ex tempore observations when taken out of context might well lead to misunderstanding." The Foreign Office was speaking for itself, it insisted, and not Churchill. The only living member of the Big Three seemed fairly unperturbed when he rose in the House of Commons to discuss the affair. But, said he, we do "not accept responsibility...
...accept it," he said. "My record throughout the war . . . will show with what deep sympathy I viewed the fate of the people of Poland." Churchill himself, as eminent historian, had rushed into print as fast as anyone with newly declassified material. Besides, so far as Yalta was concerned, he and Anthony Eden could take some comfort in the record; whatever his own verbal indiscretion, the fact was that only the British delegation had fought with skill for the rights of France and Poland...
West Germany gasped painfully last week as the Yalta documents arrived in time for the last stages of the debate on the Paris accords in the Bundesrat (upper house). Said Hesse's Socialist Minister President Georg August Zinn, attempting to make Socialist capital out of the chilling dialogue on German dismemberment; "The Yalta documents . . . show that it was not the will of one, but of all the Allied powers, not only to split Germany, but at the same time to merge the split parts into greater military and economic systems. I have a dark feeling that the issues discussed...
...even that new fuel failed to set off a fire. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had the votes. He also had an impressive argument: under the Paris treaties, a mere ten years after Yalta, Germany will receive national sovereignty, the right to create a 500,000-man army, to join NATO and a seven-nation Western European Union. After a short debate, the Bundesrat completed (29 to 9) ratification of the Paris treaties. Now the only possible roadblock to German rearmament is the French Senate, which is scheduled to vote this week...
Tired, 79-year-old Konrad Adenauer, only 24 hours out of the sickbed in which he had lain for ten days, smiled broadly over a triumphant glass of champagne. Said he: "This does away with Yalta...