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Covering the Map of the World The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 2

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On the evening of February 8, 1945-the fifth day of the Yalta Conference the Big Three Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin adjourned from the official meetings of the day and gathered for a formal dinner, hosted by Stalin, at Koreis Villa. In his account of the conference,Roosevelt and the Russians, Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius recorded, "The atmosphere at the dinner was most cordial, and it proved to be the most important dinner of the Conference. Stalin was in excellent humor and even in high spirits." And Winston Churchill "manifested real hope that there could be a world of happiness, peace and security." Stalin and Churchill exchanged toasts of magniloquent mutual admiration. Then Stalin proposed a toast to FDR. According to the notes kept by Roosevelt's translator, Chester Bohlen, and published in the Department of State's volume The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, Stalin said that he and Mr. Churchill had had simple ...

Nationalism: Its Nature and Consequences

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In the 19th century, many classical liberals believed that the ideas of "national identity" and "nationalism" were false scents that were likely to lead the world away from liberty and towards a continuation of political tyranny and international conflict. For example, William E. H. Lecky, in his study Democracy and Liberty (1896), argued that "the idea and passion of nationality blend quite as easily with loyalty to a dynasty as with attachment to a republican form of government, and nations that value very little internal or constitutional freedom are often passionately devoted to their national individuality and independence." Furthermore, Lecky warned: The doctrine of nationalities has assumed forms and been pushed to extremes which make it a great danger to the peace of the world. It becomes the readiest weapon in the hands both ...

The Causes and Consequences of World War II, Part 3

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In 1945, Nazi totalitarianism was destroyed by the military might of the wartime allies. But within a few months of victory, our comrade-in-arms, "Uncle Joe" Stalin (as he was affectionately to by President Franklin Roosevelt), was making it clear that the postwar period would not be an era of global peace and international harmony. Within months of the German surrender, Stalin was tightening his grip on the Eastern European countries that had been "liberated" by the Red Army. There would be no free elections, no democratic pluralism, no market economies in the nations now in Moscow's orbit. By 1948, with the communist coup in Czechoslovakia, every one of the Eastern European countries had been turned into a socialist "People's Republic." We now know that this was Stalin's intention from the beginning, despite the promises he gave to President Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. In early April 1945, less than two months after the signing of the Yalta agreements, ...