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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (10547)	2/19/2003 8:26:42 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

By 1948, Russia controlled Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. Understandably. Russia had just been annihilated via those countries. The Allies were angered that the free elections promised by Stalin at the Yalta Conference were not held and adopted a new foreign policy of containment to keep communism to the areas where it was already in affect. The U.S. interfered with democracy before Yalta. Any country in which Communists were scoring electoral victories could be assured of Western intervention. We were in Greece supporting Nazi collaborators before the Nazis were even defeated. The most important part of the whole affair is this: <<< ... neither the text of the March 10 Kremlin proposal "nor even the fact of its arrival was disclosed by Washington until after the Western reply had been sent on March 25."... the delay may have been related to the Administration desire "to present its case for the Mutual Security Act of 1952 to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, without having that committee's deliberations prejudiced by knowledge of the Soviet proposal"; the Act called for about $7.5 billion for Western rearmament, and was "based upon the assumption that an All-German settlement could not possibly be achieved." ... >>> We can't let the public know that the Red Menace is actually offering us a peace treaty! Tom