Article: Yalta betrayal revisited.(CORRECTION, PLEASE!)(Correction Notice)

ITEM: Jacob Heilbrunn wrote in the Los Angeles Times for May 10 (and other papers) about President George Bush's visit to the Baltics. When the president compared "the Yalta accord among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin in [February of] 1945 to the Hitler-Stalin pact," said Heilbrunn, that should have caused "outrage here at home." Heilbrunn went on: "The claim that Roosevelt betrayed Eastern Europe and set the stage for 40 years of Soviet domination is an old right-wing canard. By repeating it, and by publicly charging that the Yalta agreement was in the 'unjust tradition' of Hitler's deal with Stalin, Bush was simply engaging in cheap historical ...

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