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...Franklin Roosevelt and General Marshall fought the war without regard for postwar realities, left the way open for Russia in central Europe and the Balkans, naively trusted Stalin at Yalta and helped throw away the peace with just about every major decision they took...
Writing of Yalta with the perspective of the past half-dozen years, Wilmot tries hard to be fair to Roosevelt, but is distressed by F.D.R.'s naive belief that "Uncle Joe" would keep his promises. Shrewdly, he points out that the meeting took place after Hitler had shaken up the Allies in the Ardennes and when the Russian armies had the Germans on the run in the East. Through Yalta, Unconditional Surrender, and the green light to Stalin in Central Europe, thinks Wilmot, the West gave Stalin what it had denied to Hitler. The Struggle for Europe will convince...
...personal chief of staff during World War II, "Pug" Ismay knew, Churchill later wrote, "exactly how my mind was working from day to day." He patiently stayed up night after night, adjusting himself to Churchill's "nocturnal hours, went with Churchill to Casablanca, Cairo, Moscow, Teheran and Yalta. "The man with the oilcan," top Allied leaders called him. "When he's around, the wheels turn...
...papers unless he chooses. But it amounted to a rare vote of no confidence, not so much over foreign policy itself as over the way Congress has often been left out of it. During the debate, some Congressmen recalled the results of the secret Churchill-Roosevelt agreements at Yalta and Teheran. Some were still smarting from Harry Truman's dispatch of troops to Korea without formally notifying Congress. The House was reminded that Churchill had hinted that the U.S. should send troops to Suez (although both Washington and London have emphatically denied that this implied any agreement...
...Buttonholing other delegations, it argued that the Communists-by siding with the aggressors in Korea against U.N. -had lost all moral right to the seat. The U.S. proposed Greece. The Russians proposed Byelorussia, a Soviet state which is no more entitled to international standing than Mississippi, except that at Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to recognize it (and the Soviet Ukraine) as full-fledged U.N. members...