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Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1948, Page 5

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-Reuter,

When Stalin Was In An Expansire Mood

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Received Friday, 7.30 p.m. • WASHH1NGTON, August 19. Mr. S,talin at a dinner party attended by President Rooaevelt and Mi Churchill at Teheran said yrhen Mi Churchill asked what future territorial interests Russia had: l' There' is ' no need to speak now about Russian desires, but when the time com.es— ivc will speak. '[ This' is aceQrding to the seeret papers of the late Harry Hop kins, Mr. R6osevelt 's personaj adviser. Tlie papers, .which have been edited by Robeft Sherwood and are being published in serial form in ..ColIierX Mugaziue, reveal that 011 the saine occasion Mr. Churcliill declared that B'ri tain did not want any new territory but intended to hold on to what sb.v had and to re-claim what had been taken from lier. Stalin tlie 11 commented that Britain had fought well in the war and lie personaUv fayoured increase yi the British Empire, particularly in thv area around Gibraltar.'. Summing up President ^opsevelt's reaction to the firs.t meeting with, Mr. Stalin, ilr. Hopki-n,s says: "He no^y felt sure that Stalin was getatable Jespite his bludgeoning tactics and hb attitude of cynicism towards such m.at ters as the riglits of small nations. He felt sure, too, that when Russia could be convinced that her legitimate claims and reciuireiuents— such as rxgh,t of access to warm water ports — were given full recoguition she would prove tractable and cooperative in maintaining world peaee after the war..". The papers also disclosed that Russia refused a request by President Roosevelt for a United States basc in Siben:. wherefrom 1000 heavy bonibers could attaek Japan.