United to The End: The Road to the Yalta Summit, 1944–1945
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Year: 2014

ALTHOUGH BY THE END OF 1943 BOTH THE BRITISH AND THE UNITED States governments had committed themselves to supporting the Soviet claim to the Baltic states at the peace table, Moscow's long-term objective remained de jure recognition. Kremlin was anxious to handle the issue most delicately, however, probably fearing a Western rebuff in case of direct confrontation. When the British Foreign Office wondered why Moscow had not approached them on the topic, which had seemed to be so important for th