From the British Conservatives that had known before the war about what kind of results 'cohabitation with Stalin' would bring, this chapter was sent to 2018-07-17, entitled 'Would you notice now?'
The following is published in the Voice this month, which is one of the monthly magazines that the Japanese people should read. 'That's right to correct Yalta's injustice, the cause of today's Asian turmoil,' this is from the interview feature of Nakanishi Terumasa (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University) and Watanabe Soki (Researcher of Contemporary History of Japan and the United States).
It is a feature that all Japanese people, including students studying history, and people around the world, should read.
Stupid 'cohabitation' with Stalin
Watanabe
In February 1945, three giant heads of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and J. Stalin met at the Soviet Union Yalta Crimea (Yalta Talks).
As a secret agreement, 'Soviet put German prisoners of war into forced labor' and 'the custody of the Kuril Islands and South Sakhalin, various rights in Manchuria to the Soviet Union' were exchanged.
The contents of the secret agreement revealed to the American people on February 46, and the 'New York World-Telegram' criticized the government as follows.
'The United States has done something like fishing in Russia to get involved in the fight with Jap. It was unnecessary. Have there ever been such meaningless bribes?'.
Nakanishi
As for Yalta's injustice, he was well aware of Prime Minister Churchill.
About half a year after the end of the war, in February 1946, in the public electricity that the Foreign Ministry addressed to all foreign missions just before the release of the secrecy.
The relocation of the Japanese territory including the Kuril Islands and the northern regions to the Soviet Union It shows grave doubts that the promised signature goes beyond the presidency of the United States, and in particular, the effectiveness of the Yalta agreement in the absence of ratification of this agreement.
So the British government has been questioning the legal validity of the Yalta pledge from the beginning.
However, because Churchill knew it and signed it without even notifying his country's cabinet to facilitate relations with Roosevelt, it could be said that the United States and the United Kingdom had a considerable problem looking at it morally.
From the beginning of the twentieth century, Churchill and the British elite began to be seriously concerned about the disappearance of the British Empire.
One of the trends that came up from that was 'Anglo-Saxonism' that embraces the United States and tries to maintain British supremacy.
But that was also the process by which the British Empire absorbed by Pax Americana (US rule).
In other words, it is the mummy hunter himself became a mummy that the United States smashes the British Empire trying to get in the United States successfully in reverse, which is the significance of world history in the two world wars of the twentieth century.
And I think the Yalta talks were just the last historical moment of 'The British setting sun.'
Watanabe
In March 1946, about a year after the Yalta talks, Churchill announced in the 'Iron curtain' speech in March 1946 that 'Western democracy, especially Britain and the United States, we must restrain the Soviet movement, which will continue to spread the power and thought without limit.'
From the British Conservatives that had known before the war about what kind of result 'Cohabitation' with Stalin would bring, it must have thought 'Did you notice around this time, fool' (laughs).
Nakanishi
Roosevelt has called Joseph Stalin intimately as 'Uncle Joe.'
However, this was merely a way to appeal to the American people's friendship with the Soviets, and the American rulers never released their vigilance against the Soviets.
So how should we explain Roosevelt's anomalous concessions to Stalin in the Yalta talks?
Sometimes I see in the Japanese Conservative thesis that 'Communists brainwashed Roosevelt,' but things won't be such simple stories.
Although not as well educated as Churchill and Stalin, I think that Roosevelt's ability was still first-class as a strategist, such as the ability to promote participation in World War II to become the world's hegemony of the United States.
Watanabe
In the first place, Roosevelt has no evidence of reading communism-related books.
Perhaps even the primary literature of Marx and Lenin has never been read.
Although it is uneducated, it is challenging to interpret Roosevelt if it can only regard as 'a leading strategist as a result.'
Nakanishi
It was more towards Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who was named "Red First Lady," who read Communist-related books keenly.
Watanabe
I see Roosevelt feeling confident that Stalin can manipulate at will or overconfidence.
Roosevelt stayed at the Soviet embassy in November-December 1943, during the Tehran talks, in which the United States and the United Kingdom and the three large giants gathered, same as the Yalta talks.
According to a paper by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), the conversations within the embassy were wiretapped entirely at that time, and it was about how it was foolish that Roosevelt's judgment was dangerous on the security.
Roosevelt just exposed the information in an administration to Soviets, like 'exhibitionist.'
But that is why I can not take the view that Stalin's communist spies were manipulating Roosevelt.
Conversely, Roosevelt might have intended to manipulate the Soviets by daringly leaking confidential information.
Won't it be because it believed that it was the position which is possible to tactically that it was no-guard to Stalin as much as that, too?
Nakanishi
After all, Roosevelt aimed to overthrow the British Empire and the United States to hold the world's supremacy, and Japan and the Soviet Union were just the pieces for that.
And this aim was half successful, and America became the world's hegemony after the war.
It can say that the Cold War was the cost of that.
Japan is well taken up, but does it mean that the Soviets have troubled it?
In that sense, as well, it would be a mistake that the Soviets manipulated Roosevelt.
This manuscript continues.
