A panel discussion "From Yalta to Fulton to Today" about Churchill on the international stage between Professor David Reynolds and Catherine Grace Katz, chaired by Timothy Riley, Sandra L. and Monroe E. Trout Director and Chief Curator at America’s National Churchill Museum. Part of the 37th International Churchill Conference, 24 October 2020, 10 am CST.
Professor David Reynolds of Cambridge University is the co-editor of The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt (2018). https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-david-reynolds
Catherine Grace Katz is a historian and the author of The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans, A Story of Love and War (2020). https://www.catherinegracekatz.com
International Churchill Society: https://winstonchurchill.org/
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0:00:00 Intro video
0:04:58 Riley – panel intro, introducing Catherine Katz
0:07:59 Katz – Yalta Conference background
0:14:30 Katz – daughters of Yalta
0:16:13 Katz – Sarah Churchill
0:18:25 Katz – Kathleen Harriman
0:20:29 Katz – Anna Roosevelt; Yalta in the words of Anna & Franklin D. Roosevelt
0:23:30 Katz – Yalta in the words of Kathleen & Averell Harriman
0:24:28 Katz – Yalta in the words of Sarah & Winston Churchill
0:28:51 Riley – introducing David Reynolds
0:29:50 Reynolds – intro, aftermath of Yalta
0:33:23 Reynolds – Churchill’s relationship with and understanding of Stalin in his words
0:40:28 Reynolds – Soviets in Poland, Operation “Unthinkable,” and FDR in Churchill’s words
0:49:57 Reynolds – text analysis of Churchill's Iron Curtain/Sinews of Peace speech at Fulton
0:53:45 Reynolds – Churchill’s words
0:55:40 Riley – start of Q&A
0:56:40 Katz – "How important was it for Churchill to be accompanied by a member of his family when traveling?"
0:58:55 Reynolds – "What are the Iron Curtains of today?"
1:02:51 Katz – "Did the daughters of Yalta know one another before the conference?"
1:05:17 Reynolds – "What is the state of the Special Relationship today?"
1:09:46 Riley – closing remarks
1:13:04 International Churchill Society outro
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