...violations of the Yalta agreements in Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria, I would have been satisfied had they determined not to enter the war. Notwithstanding Japan's...would be successful and would force the Japanese to accept surrender on our terms. I feared what would happen when the Red Army entered Manchuria. " 48...

...actions in eastern Germany and the violations of the Yalta agreement in Poland, Rumania, and Bulgaria, I would have been satisfied had the Russians determined not to enter the war." He then adds a much franker statement: that at the January, 1945, Yalta Conference the United States...

...satisfied," he tells us in Speaking Frankly, "had the Russians determined not to enter the war. ... I believed the atomic bomb would be successful and would force the Japanese to accept surrender on our terms. I feared what would happen when the Red Army entered Manchuria." Specifically,...

...actions in eastern Germany and the violations of the Yalta agreements in Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria, I would have been satisfied had the Russians determined...would be successful and would force the Japanese to accept surrender on our terms." In this sentence, the timetable that Byrnes and Truman had worked out...

...actions in eastern Germany and the violations of the Yalta agreements in Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria, I would have been satisfied had the Russians determined...the atomic bomb would be successful and would force Japan to accept surrender on our terms."93 Truman and Byrnes knew that these legal explanations were...