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fine festivities that sealed the fate Of Europe Of the East
perhaps Of America The reaeiionsry doctrine Of spheres
Of nfvsncs"-n other words the domination Of Crest
Powers weaker revived 70 the advantage
Of Stain. u joyous occasion, but u ths parent
Of endless misery confusion. and difficulties. from which
suffer and likely 70 suffer for generations.
Does anyone imagine that Churchill Roosevelt would
have given much swsy-n contradiction 70 the Atlantic
chsrtsr-hsd the proposals been submitted them in the
privacy Of their closets? Yet at Yas and Posdsm, ihe
eonqvssss Of Stain confirmed and augmented.
Thus ths Sterilization Of much Of Europe and eonsd.
cradle part Of Asia due to he mpvsvsness Of states
who did understand that whenever grave decisions
10 be made however able he may think himself
to bs. and however able he may actually be in his sober
moments has right 70 act according to his temporary
personal feengs the momenfary feelings Of the public
He be hasiy in his judgments; he must make them,
far possible in seelvson after careful consideration
Of the immediate and subsequent consequences Ne must
listen TO a but he must not be vndvy influenced by any
u Is not my purpose criticize Roosevelt; he was
sick In the later stages Of the war; but II is incumbent
mo condemn the method Of personal ecnise5s u ip
levels II there that the mischief DONE That Uncle
Joe appeared 10 be amabe and decent Of chap
these meetings not sufficient for taking
immense gamble with human lives and the very destiny Of
the human To imagine that appeal stsns moral
would alter the fate Of Poland the Baltic States
disastrous folly indeed from the Russian viewpoint Stain
would have been bameworhy had he surrendered any
such personal persuasion He we'll within his role in
obtaining all he could and Of sticking what given
TO him.
He would have been poor leader had he rslinqvshed
inch Of territory offered him by him. except on
grounds Of national prudence He least susesp
IDLE TO sttery sentiment And talk about his
moral not merely absurd ignores and obsevres
the immortality Of his ntsrocvsors bartsrng away the
liberties Of innocent and helpless peoples.
HAD AMERICA STOOD UP TO RUSSIA AT TEHERAN
AND YALTA. SHE WOULD HAVE SAVED HERSELF Bill.
LIONS OF DOLLARS AND SIZE WOULD HAVE SPARED
EUROPE THE HORRORS OF ENslAvEMENT For, IL
Stain not smsndsble nsftery or to sentiment he
would have been aenable TO force and rmnsss In l945
certainly have excessive sympathy for Germany but
fhs most elementary knowledge Of Europs-or even Of
have indicated that you cannot create void
in the heart OF Europe without inviting another power
in this Russs-to MI the vacuum. And what void
Is dsssstsd and unsrmed Germany in Europe What
void the Balkans smpfisd Of their German occupants
These voids duty 70 nh before others could
do So To grant in principle TO Russia Tehersn zone
Of influence without effective guarantees to the
new partition Of Poland and Of Germany, permit The
deportation OF 10 10 IS million Germans from lands their
ancestors had occupied for centuries was TO svfy the
Atlantic Charter which proclaimed that there should be
no change OF territory exchange Of peoples without
their formal consent
To at Yss. the Isstmnvss promise Of Russia
to help America against Japan help then known 70
be quite unnecessary In the Russian occupation Of the
kvrss. Of Sskhsn and in the Russian domination Of Port
Arthur OF Dsrsn Of Msnchura Of part OF Korea was 70
ignore the possibilities Of lsssr Russian expansion through
OUT the whole Of Asia and ihs tragic possibilities Of the
bloody fighting which hiss already in Korea The effects
OF these wartime ioPlevei conferences fully as dis
ssrovs those Of that first omnovs topsvel conference
~ Paris in 1919.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN. AFTER HIS UNFORTUNATE
LAPSE At poTsDAM. WHEN ne WAS NEW TO OFFICE.
RIGHTLY DECLINED TO LEND HIS couNTENANcE TO
ToP-lEvEL TALKS 49,
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