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...fail to follow Mr. Acheson's line of argument that it was expedient, at Yalta, to give Russia a legal claim to a finger so as to prevent her from taking a hand. How was it possible for Roosevelt and Churchill to furnish Stalin with a "legal claim" to territories over which neither America nor Britain had any jurisdiction whatsoever...
...under Hoover) and wartime ambassadorial troubleshooter (under Roosevelt), is a man with a lot of unwritten history in his system. He came into the hearing room in a mood that bristled like his dashing white mustache, promptly lit into the State Department. "A weak and confused foreign policy after Yalta," he added, ". . . is the primary cause for every international problem confronting our nation, and for every casualty we have suffered in Korea." Democrat Brien McMahon of Connecticut was lying in wait for him with quotes from Hurley's days as Roosevelt's Ambassador to China, when...
Oklahoman Hurley furnished a new, intimate glimpse of President Roosevelt in his last days. In March 1945, Hurley testified, he visited Roosevelt to complain of the still-secret concessions made to Russia at Yalta: "... I went to the White House . . . with my ears back and my teeth skinned, to have a fight about what had been done. When the President reached up that fine, firm, strong hand of his to shake hands with me, what I found in my hands was a very loose bag of bones...
...Means United." Last week a Republican Senator got wind of a paper which seemed to show that not all the U.S. military had shared that view. The evidence was a secret intelligence report prepared for Army Chief of Staff George Marshall in April 1945, two months after Yalta. It was prepared in the Specialists' Section of Army G2, a high-powered team of some 50 experts, most of them West Pointers, each a lieutenant colonel or better, each a specialist on some country or region of the world. Heading the project was the late Colonel Joseph Michela. The report...
Missing Original. There was no evidence that General Marshall ever saw the report. And the men who put it together apparently did not know (as even some key members of the entourage at Yalta were not told) what had already been secretly given to Stalin at Yalta...