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Headline Interpretation. Some Republicans-notably Chairman Alexander Wiley of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-were openly chagrined that the resolution did not flatly repudiate the Yalta and Potsdam agreements. The disappointment was understandable, because the Administration itself had been none too clear in its advance thinking about Dulles' high purposes. In his State of the Union message Eisenhower promised that he would ask Congress to make clear "that this Government recognizes no kind of commitment contained in secret understandings of the past with foreign government which permit this kind of enslavement." Many newsmen promptly interpreted this as meaning repudiation...
...would abide strictly by the Yalta pact...
...Charles Eustis ("Chip") Bohlen, 48, departmental counselor, to be Ambassador to the Soviet Union. A Russian-speaking specialist in Soviet affairs, he did three tours of duty in Moscow between 1934 and 1944, was Franklin Roosevelt's interpreter at Teheran and Yalta, Harry Truman's at Potsdam. Before Bohlen, or anyone else, takes over as the new U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, the Administration will have to decide what to do about the Soviet government's unceremonious booting of former Ambassador George (Containment) Kennan, declared persona non grata last October...
...Repudiated any & all secret commitments ("I shall ask the Congress at a later date to join in an appropriate resolution . . .") which Democratic administrations may have made with governments which permit "enslavement"-e.g., the Yalta Agreement...
Never in really good health since 1936, Stalin had a bad heart attack at Potsdam, Budu says. In addition, he suffers from asthma and insomnia. He was in a state of collapse after the Yalta Conference, where, says Budu again, the "Churchill-Stalin vodka-drinking duel had been bad for him." "I'm younger than Churchill," he said, "and I don't admit his superiority even in the matter of how much alcohol we can take." From about that time, Budu implies, the Soviet Union has been run pretty much by the Molotov-Malenkov axis, even though Stalin...