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From The Memoirs of Lord Gladwyn (1972)

The all-important meeting that was to achieve final Allied unity on how to wind up the war and what to do immediately thereafter was now looming on the horizon. Yalta had been selected as the place, partly because Stalin refused to leave Russia — though he had been to Tehran — chiefly because President Roosevelt, largely with the influence of Harry Hopkins, was intent on bending over backwards to meet Russian susceptibilities in the hope that the Soviet Government, convinced of American sincerity, would reciprocate by at least paying some attention to American (Western) views on the right way to organize the world.   (Etc.)

New York : Weybright and Talley 1972, p. 152.

Comment : was that a kindergarten or something ?

I (for one) had actually laughed when reading the above — which could have come easily in Los Angeles, California —:  not exactly anywhere near the Kremlin ; secondarily, because Stalin has been dead for some years by now.

But the lies planted by the communist agents in the U.S., etc., were much assisted by the necessity on the part of F.D.R. and his followers, somehow to palliate the mistakes made when dealing with the Soviets. "While you slept." The consequences are being felt to this very day.   (WPT, 4 Jan 04)