"Appeasement at Yalta"
by
William Henry Chamberlin
                                       
 Morally, politically and militarily the Yalta Conference of February 4-11, 1945, was held under unfavorable conditions. The  Soviet armies had recently launched a successful offensive. The memory of what proved to be the last German offensive, in the  Ardennes region, was still fresh. The speed with which Germany would crumble before Eisenhower's offensive in the spring was not  anticipated. Singularly faulty intelligence work had conveyed the impression that Japan still possessed large and effective forces in  Manchuria....