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On the eve of Yalta conference the Japanese Foreign Minister asked the Russian Ambassador in Tokyo about the possibility of arranging for a settlement. Stalin did not communicate this to either Roosevelt or Churchill.<ref>''While You Slept'' John T. Flynn, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 168] pdf.</ref>
On the eve of Yalta conference the Japanese Foreign Minister asked the Russian Ambassador in Tokyo about the possibility of arranging for a settlement. Stalin did not communicate this to either Roosevelt or Churchill.<ref>''While You Slept'' John T. Flynn, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 168] pdf.</ref>
==Operation Keelhaul==
==[[Operation Keelhaul]]==
Roosevelt agreed to have all fugitive Soviet nationals or citizens of satellite nations and tens of thousands of [[POW]]'s who elected to stay this side of the [[Iron Curtain]], returned to the Soviet Union. This was in contravention of the Geneva Convention. The ''Saturday Evening Post'' commented:
Roosevelt agreed to have all fugitive Soviet nationals or citizens of satellite nations and tens of thousands of [[POW]]'s who elected to stay this side of the [[Iron Curtain]], returned to the Soviet Union. This was in contravention of the Geneva Convention. The ''Saturday Evening Post'' commented: