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...while avoiding any hard thought about what might be said or done at such a meeting. The hard fact is that, in the year 1953, no Western statesman, and certainly no U.S. President, can make any secret swap with the Russians without severe public scrutiny: Potsdam and Yalta, the wartime era of heady bargaining and private mapmaking, are past...
...Yalta and Potsdam, Stalin suggested that the Montreux Convention should be modified to allow Soviet bases to be built in the area in order to protect the Black Sea mouth. The result of Stalinist bluntness has been seven years of Russo-Turkish hostility and Turkey's growing friendship for the West, culminating in full membership in NATO and a military alliance with Greece and Yugoslavia. In last week's note, Russia renounced its desire for bases on the Dardanelles, spoke only of a friendly solution to the Dardanelles problem. The Turkish government was reported ready to participate...
...Flatly repudiating the Yalta and Potsdam agreements...
Eisenhower reasons that if Russia will make no preconference concessions, the talks will fall through. He and his advisors, convinced American diplomats got their fingers burnt at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, are afraid they will be bested again. This is hardly the kind of "new, daring foreign policy" he promised the electorate. There is no reason for our diplomats to have this inferiority complex, and as long as they keep it, our cold war position will be weakened...
...House got their signals mixed on the Government Reorganization bill, Taft unscrambled the mess. He skillfully steered through the Senate the nomination of Charles E. Bohlen as Ambassador to Rus sia, although he frankly said he would not have nominated Bohlen. When the resolution condemning Russia for perverting the Yalta and Potsdam agreements got snarled up in confusion, reporters hurried over to ask Taft what he thought. Their jaws dropped in amazement when he said: "I'm not thinking a thing until I hear from the State Department...