FDR and the Russians: the Yalta Conference

Stettinius, Edward R. (1949). FDR and the Russians: the Yalta Conference. New York: Garden City.

Abstract: Ever since the Big Three—Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin—had their historic meeting in the Crimea, controversy has raged about the decisions, concessions, and agreements which took place there. It is important, in the light of subsequent world history, to know what really happened at Yalta. Now, for the first time, the entire story of those seven days in the history of the world—February 4-11, 1945—is brilliantly revealed by Edward R. Stettinius who, as Secretary of State, sat in on all the meetings that took place, and who, since the deaths of Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins, is perhaps the only man who can tell all that happened at Yalta.

See pages 232-3: "...Although we agreed not to include any statement relative to territorial trusteeships in the invitation, we did decide that the five permanent members of the Security Council should consult each other prior to the conference on this matter and prepare recommendations for a discussion of it at San Francisco. I explained that the United States did not contemplate an' detailed discussions of particular2hr11 territories to he placed under international trusteeship, hut that we did wish to establish the right of the world organization to deal with the problem and to create some machinery for a trus teeship system. Molotov and Eden indicated agreement with this suggestion..."