Part Three - Wastebasket Road: Casablanca to Yalta

PART THREE Wastebasket Road: Casablanca to Yalta T hose who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. WINSTON CHURCHILL in 1930 (In his early autobiography, A Roving Commission) Chapter X CASABLANCA IN 1943,BEFOREhe had ever met Marshal Joseph Stalin, President Roosevelt said to William C. Bullitt: I have just a hunch that Stalin doesn't want anything but security for his country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work for a world democracy and peace.1 Mr. Bullitt had been the American Ambassador in Moscow and in Paris and was well informed on European history and politics. He was a man of deep patriotism. One may imagine the amazement, if not.dismay, with which he heard these words from the lips of the President of the United States. From that moment on, he feared for the safety of Western civilization.