World War II Behind Closed Doors (70 page)

81
FRUS, Conferences at Malta and Yalta. Yalta discussions are from pp. 547–996.

82
FRUS, p. 726.

83
Moran,
Winston Churchill, the Struggle for Survival
, diary entry for 3 February 1945.

84
Ibid., entry for 10 February 1945.

85
Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
, p. 573.

86
Quoted in ibid., p. 572.

87
Meeting with Roosevelt, 22 December 1944, FO 371/44595.

88
Moran,
Winston Churchill, the Struggle for Survival
, entry for 9 February 1945.

89
Admiral Leahy, Yalta diary, p. 33, entry for 11 February 1945, in William Leahy,
I Was There
, Whittlesey House, 1950.

90
Cadogan Diaries
entry 11 February 1945, pp. 708–9.

91
See the analysis in David Reynolds,
Summits
, Penguin: Allen Lane, 2007, p. 131.

CHAPTER SIX: The Iron Curtain

1
British War Cabinet minutes, 19 February 1945, WM (43) 22.1 CA.

2
Pimlott (ed.),
Dalton Diaries
, entry for 23 February, 1945, p. 836.

3
House of Commons debates, 5th series, Vol. 408, 27 February 1945.

4
Fraser Harbutt,
Churchill, America and the Origins of the Cold War
, Oxford University Press US, 1986, p. 92.

5
McJimsey (ed.),
Documentary History of the Franklin Roosevelt Presidency: Vol. 14 Yalta
, University Publications of America 2001–3, doc.144.

6
Quoted in Harbutt,
Churchill, America
, p. 93.

7
Ibid.

8
Vostochnaya Evropa v Dokumentakh Rossiiskikh Arkhivov, 1944–1953, doc. 151. Quoted in Geoffrey Roberts,
Stalin's Wars
, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 247–8. See pp. 228–53 of
Stalin's Wars
for a detailed discussion of these issues.

9
Anders,
An Army in Exile
, p. 256.

10
Alanbrooke diary entry for 22 February, 1945, p. 665.

11
FO 954/23, 18/1/45.

12
FO 954/23, 19/1/45.

13
Figures quoted in Dallas,
Poisoned Peace
, p. 422.

14
Bohlen,
Witness to History
, p. 217.

15
Quoted in Robert E. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins, an Intimate History
, Enigma Books, 2008, p. 832.

16
Balfour to Warner, 30 May 1945, FO371/47862/N6417. Quoted in Martin Folly,
Churchill, Whitehall and the Soviet Union 1940–45
, Hutchinson, 2000, p. 144.

17
Martin Folly,
Churchill, Whitehall and the Soviet Union 1940–1945
, Hutchinson, 2000, p. 146.

18
Warren F. Kimball (ed.),
Churchill and Roosevelt, the Complete Correspondence
, Vol. 3,
The Alliance Declining
, Princeton University Press, 1984, Kimball C-905, 8 March 1945, pp. 547–9.

19
Churchill to Roosevelt, 13 March 1945, Kimball C-910, p. 565.

20
Cadogan Diaries
, 13 February 1945.

21
Roosevelt to Churchill, 15 March 1945, Kimball R-718, p. 568.

22
Churchill to Roosevelt, 17 March 1945, Kimball C-914, p. 574.

23
Churchill to Roosevelt, 30 March 1945, Kimball C-927, p. 597.

24
Roosevelt to Churchill, 31 March 1945, Kimball R-731, p. 601.

25
Susan Butler (ed.),
My Dear Mr Stalin: The Complete Correspondence
, Yale University Press, 2005, Roosevelt to Stalin 301, 5 April 1945, p. 315.

26
Ibid., Stalin 303, 7 April 1945, p. 318.

27
Ibid., Roosevelt's note of 11 April 1945 to Churchill, p. 321.

28
Stalin, quoted by Zhukov in John Erickson,
Road to Stalingrad
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985, p. 721.

29
John Lamberton Harper,
American Visions of Europe
, Cambridge University Press, p. 128.

30
BBC interview.

31
BBC interview.

32
BBC interview.

33
Letter from a soldier named Bezuglov to his collective farm. Quoted in Catherine Merridale,
Ivan's War
, Faber and Faber, 2005, p. 260.

34
Quoted in Dallas,
Poisoned Peace
, p. 7.

35
Anonymous,
A Woman in Berlin
, Virago, 2005, p. 17.

36
BBC interview.

37
Captured letter. In Bundesarchiv, RH2-2688, 13; also quoted in Merridale,
Ivan's War
, p. 267.

38
Milan Hauner,
Hitler – A Chronology of His Life and Time
, Macmillan Press, 1983, entry for 30 April 1945.

39
Quoted in
New York Times
, 24 June 1941.

40
Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins, an Intimate History
, p. 851.

41
Ibid., p. 855.

42
Churchill to Roosevelt, 11 April 1945, Kimball, Vol. 3, C-941, p. 624.

43
Anthony Eden (Lord Avon),
The Reckoning
p.504, entry for 4 January 1945, p. 514.

44
Anders,
An Army in Exile
, p. 275.

45
Report by joint planning staff, 22 May 1945, CAB 120/691 109040.

46
Alanbrooke,
War Diaries
, p. 693, 24 May 1945.

47
Churchill to Truman, 10 May 1945, FRUS, 1945,
Foreign Relations of the United States The Conference of Berlin
, 1945, Washington, 1960, Vol. 1, pp. 8–9.

48
Churchill to Truman 31 May 1945, FRUS, 1945,
The Conference of Berlin
, Vol. 1, p. 53.

49
Robert S. Mackay: “This Mr. President is the Story of the Little White House”. The Truman House in Potsdam 1892–2002/“Sie werden verstehen, es bewegt micht sehr”. Ein Haus und seine ergreifende Geschichte von 1892 bis zur Gegenwart, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Potsdam, 2002, pp. 24–5.

50
Facsimile copies of this journal can be seen at
www.trumanlibrary.org
.

51
Cadogan Diaries
, 17 July 1945, p. 764.

52
FRUS
The Conference of Berlin, 1945
, Vol. 2, pp. 378–9.

53
Norman M. Naimark,
The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–49
, Belknap, 1995, pp. 205–30.

54
FRUS,
The Conference of Berlin, 1945
, Vol. 2, pp. 359–62.

55
Pravda
, 25 November 1936.

56
BBC interview.

57
FRUS, pp. 566–9.

58
Quoted in Sebag Montefiore,
Stalin and the Court of the Red Tsar
, p. 508.

59
Quoted in Dallas,
Poisoned Peace
, p. 567.

60
Gar Alperovitz,
The Decision to Use the Nuclear Bomb
, Vintage Books, 1996.

61
See, for example, Robert H. Ferrell (ed.),
Harry S. Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History
, Worland, 1996; and in particular David Holloway,
Stalin and the Bomb
, Yale University Press, 1996.

62
Alanbrooke,
War Diaries
, entry for 23 July 1945, p. 709.

63
Holloway,
Stalin and the Bomb
, pp. 42–87.

64
Andrei Gromyko,
Memoirs
, Doubleday, 1989, pp. 391–2.

65
BBC interview.

66
BBC interview.

67
BBC interview.

68
Robert Service,
‘Comrades’: World History of Communism
, Pan Macmillan, 2007, pp. 239–50.

69
I. S. Yazhborovskaya, A. Y. Yablokov and V. S. Parsadanova,
The Katyn Poison in Soviet-Polish relations
, Rosspen, 2001, pp. 185–92. Published in Russian as
Katinskii Sindrom v Sovetsko–Polskikh Otnosheniakh
.

70
Ibid., and Stupinkova's memoirs,
Nothing but the Truth – from Nuremberg to Moscow
, Moscow, 1998.

71
Testimony from Nuremberg trials day 168, 1 July 1946. Morning session/Vol.XVII Nuremberg IMT.

72
BBC interview.

73
Testimony from Nuremberg trials, day 168, Monday, 1 July 1946. Afternoon session.

74
Anders,
An Army in Exile
, p. 288.

75
BBC interview.

76
BBC interview.

77
A. N. Yakovlev and V. Naumov (eds.),
Georgi Zhukov, Minutes from the October 1957 Plenum of the CCCP USSR and Other Documents
, Rossiya XX Vek, Moscow, 2001.

78
Yakovlev and Naumov (eds.),
Georgi Zhukov
, p. 681. Prilozhenia. Footnote 1.