SOURCE: "Roosevelt and Stalin (II)," in Modern Age, Vol. 30, Nos. 3-4, Summer/Fall, 1986, pp. 205-17.

In the following essay, Nisbet continues his analysis of Roosevelt's credulity toward Stalin.

President Roosevelt's World War II courtship of Stalin reached its heights, as I have indicated, in the two summit meetings at Teheran and Yalta. At the first, during the course of three private talks with Stalin from which Churchill was excluded, FDR made clear that he would go along with Stalin's territorial desires in Eastern Europe and assured Stalin also that America would put up little if any protest over annexation of the Baltic states. He also gave his personal assurances of a rich reward in the Far East for Russia for its agreement to join in the war against Japan once Hitler was defeated.

Yalta added little of actual substance to Teheran. What Yalta did give Stalin was not...