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...Yalta documents released by the State Department run some 500,000 words and take about nine hours to read. The minutes of the political meetings at Yalta come from three major sources...
...Charles E. Bohlen, assistant to the Secretary of State (now Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.), acted both as interpreter for President Roosevelt and as narrator of the Big Three meetings. His smooth narrative is regarded by the State Department as "the nearest approach to an official American record of the Yalta Conference." 2) H. Freeman Matthews, director of the State Department's Office of European Affairs (now Ambassador to The Netherlands), put much conference dialogue in direct quotations. 3) Alger Hiss, who went to Yalta as U.S. adviser on United Nations matters, took sketchy, sometimes inaccurate longhand notes and never...
...included in the compilation are the personal notes of Presidential Adviser James Byrnes, Secretary of State Stettinius and Ambassador Harriman. Some of Harriman's official reports are, however, in the Yalta record and are notable for their clarity and forethought...
Short of conquering all of Germany for themselves (which they knew they would not do), the Russians most wanted a power vacuum where Germany used to be. Stalin did not, in so many words, press this desire at Yalta. He did not have...
...purpose to cause Germany to collapse economically. I say that not out of any love for Germany, but because a starving and bankrupt Germany in the midst of Europe would poison all of us who are her neighbors. That is not sentiment. It is common sense." But at Yalta, Eden admitted that "there had yet been no [British] Cabinet discussions" on plans for postwar Germany...