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...truth seems to be even more grievous. What the published record does better than either memoirists or events could do is to unveil the "spirit of Yalta," which showed itself before Yalta and is not dead yet. The mark of this spirit is a stubborn refusal to face political reality. From beginning to end of the Yalta record there is an almost total absence of recognition that justice is the only enduring restraint upon power, the only basis for order. On the American side in the fateful days of conference in the Crimea, there were vague dreams, but an almost...
...Poverty of Totality. The spirit of Yalta as disclosed by the documents has its roots at least as far back as the mid-1930s when the U.S. and Britain refused to play the kind of practical politics, inspired by obvious considerations of world order, that would have curbed or destroyed Hitler. They thus brought on themselves the Unnecessary War, as Churchill was to call it. Swept into this vortex, the Americans and British embraced their enemies' slogan of "total war." It was so total that the future beyond the war's end seemed infinitely remote. If war aims...
...briefing was little used at Yalta...
What kind of a postwar world did Roosevelt want to make in a week? The record shows a shocking poverty of proposals. Some Roosevelt attitudes and aims, disclosed at Yalta...
...United Nations organization to keep the peace must be established. In the Yalta argument about U.N. Charter details, Roosevelt and Stalin put the emphasis on the big power approach, leaving it for Churchill, the "imperialist," to defend, sometimes warmly, sometimes cynically, the rights of small nations before the law. Russian objections to U.S. voting-procedure sections of the draft charter foreshadowed the lawless future course of Communist policy; but all arguments over the charter came back to the familiar door, the necessity of total Big Three cooperation and agreement...