International: The Knights of Yalta

Comic-strip husbands always say "Honest, I was at a lodge meeting," because Maggie, Silly Milly et al. cannot penetrate the fraternal secrecy to check up on them. Last week, more & more international politicos were joining the Knights of Yalta.

The U.S. and British Governments had both shown uncertainty about what Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin whispered to each other by the Black Sea. That Secretary of State Byrnes (himself a charter member of the Knights) did not know of the Yalta deal on China was an invitation to everybody in need of an alibi...

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