Misreading history.It is disturbing that Cardinal Francis George His Eminence Francis Eugene Cardinal George, OMI, Ph.D, S.T.D. (born January 16, 1937) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Archbishop of Chicago and was elevated to Cardinal by Pope John Paul II. apparently failed to understand the crucial part the Yalta conference Yalta Conference, meeting (Feb. 4–11, 1945), at Yalta, Crimea, USSR, of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. played in ending World War II. Yes, Stalin gained an enormous concession when Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill accepted de-facto Soviet control over Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. ; but still ahead was the Allied military campaign to defeat Japan, which was expected to cost a million U.S. casualties. Obtaining the pledge of Soviet participation in the Pacific War was assistance no responsible negotiator could in conscience ignore at the time. EDWIN H. RUTKOWSKI Vestal vestal (vĕs`təl), in Roman religion, priestess of Vesta. The vestals were first two, then four, then six in number. While still little girls, they were chosen from prominent Roman families to serve for 30 (originally 5) years, during which , N.Y. |
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