ABSTRACT
The period between the Teheran conference in November 1943 and the next Winston S. Churchill-Franklin D. Roosevelt-Stalin meeting at Yalta, in February 1945, had thus, for the Anglo-Americans, but not the Russians, been one of unfulfilled military promise. It was also one of deepening diplomatic doubt and of persistent evasion of the clearly emerging problems of the post-war future. More anxious than ever about the incoherence of Allied political and military strategy, and about the long-term consequences of United States disinterestedness in the Soviet advance in eastern Europe, Churchill succeeded in holding a further conference with Roosevelt in September 1944, at Quebec. On the matter of Eastern Europe, Churchill got so little co-operation from Roosevelt that he paid another visit to Stalin in Moscow in October 1944. The major diplomatic activity of 1944 took place at Dumbarton Oaks, where a three-Power delegation met in September to draw up the organization of what was later to become the United Nations.
