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- 1996 Aug 24 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with James Griffith, US Secret Service Personal Protection Officer to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, [1941]-1945, relating to preparations for the Allied Yalta conference, codenamed ARGONAUT, Yalta, Crimea, USSR, 4-11 Feb 1945; the relationship between the US and Soviet delegations during the Yalta conference, Feb 1945; the US delegation's accommodation at the Livadia Palace, Feb 1945; US President Roosevelt's poor state of health during the Yalta conference, Feb 1945; the deterioration in Roosevelt's health during the USA's involvement in World War Two, 1942-1945; the character and appearance of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, Yalta, Feb 1945; Soviet security around Stalin, Feb 1945; the diminished status of the UK as a world power, Feb 1945; the 'Iron Curtain' speech made by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA, 5 Mar 1946. 22pp
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