Churchill and Yalta.

This article analyses the utility of Yalta Conference during the World War II attended by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Here it is advisable to point out that, for the past forty years, diplomatic documents have been in bad odor. This is not the first time the taxpayers have been given a mutilated edition of diplomatic transactions of Great Powers. The colored books of the warring governments of the First World War were a scandal that provoked a storm of criticism. After the publication of the secret treaties made by Great Britain, France and Russia during the years 1914-17, no one should be so simple as to place a prima facie value upon what is tendered in the way of state papers. Such is the case in this instance also. Surely it is not to be imagined that Roosevelt was conversant with the secret dealings of Great Britain and France, and later, after the Nazi attack, with Russia. He would be a simple-minded person who thought for a moment that our President was a student of the secret diplomacy of the First World War. Also, the author doubt whether there was one of his advisers who had taken the trouble to learn how the prospective spoil was to be shared by the victors after the peace settlements were made.