Like he had before Tehran, FDR refused the idea of an Anglo-American bloc when he and Churchill met briefly in Malta before the conference.
He’s trying hard to avoid putting Stalin on the defensive.
Because he knows that in the game of wartime diplomacy, the player with the most troops on the ground had the loudest voice.
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