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Vorab sei Dir fuer Deine Muehe gedankt die Provenanz der Aussage "Also, Truman hat damals Gromyko, der Botschafter war, gegenüber die Drohung ausgesprochen, die Sowjetunion zu bombardieren." ausfindig zu machen. Und ja, auch ich vermute, dass der Januar, 1980 TIME-Artikel, in dem Senator Henry Jackson seine 34 Jahre alten Erinnerungen zum Besten gibt, Gevatter der befremdenden Behauptungen ist:
"Also, Truman hat damals Gromyko, der Botschafter war, gegenüber die Drohung ausgesprochen, die Sowjetunion zu bombardieren. " & "Truman told Gromyko that Soviet troops should evacuate Iran within 48 hours—or the U.S. would use the new superbomb that it alone possessed. We're going to drop it on you,'" Jackson quoted Truman as saying. "They moved in 24 hours."
Unterm Strich, solche 'Aufbauschungen' nennt man 'grand standing': Zuhoerer zu imponieren; wenn kleine Episoden durch wiederholte 'rumors' und Wiedererzaehlungen zu hearsay Anekdoten mutieren. Doch der Kern der Geschichte stimmt: Truman took a hard line against bully Stalin. Daher eben auch die 'Truman Doktrin'.
Truman's Abschiedsrede nimmt Referenz auf diese Gromyko-Stalin Episode:
"The first crisis came in 1945 and 1946, when the Soviet Union refused to honor its agreement to remove its troops from Iran. Members of my Cabinet came to me and asked if we were ready to take the risk that a firm stand involved. I replied that we were. So we took our stand. We made it clear to the Soviet Union that we expected them to honor their agreement, and the Soviet troops were withdrawn from Iran."----Harry S. Truman;Farewell Address; delivered 15 January 1953
"Agreement had been reached at the London conference of the Council of Foreign Ministers that all foreign troops should be withdrawn from Iran not later than March 2, 1946. But reports reaching me in October told of additional Russian troops being sent in. It all seemed to add up to a planned move on the part of the Russians to get at least northern Iran under their control. Together with the threat of a Communist coup in Greece, this began to look like a giant pincers movement against the oil-rich areas of the Near East and the warm-water ports of the Mediterranean [...]These were ominous signs which called for every effort we could make through the United Nations to compel the Russians to carry out the London agreement and get out of Iran." ---Memoirs by Harry S. Truman; ppg 523
Mehr 'hearsay' diesbezueglich aus der Truman Library, 'oreal history' :
"JOHNSON: Now, there is one question, you know, about this Iran crisis, which has controversy to it, and that is whether Truman ever issued an ultimatum to Stalin about getting his troops out, or we'd move warships in, and this sort of thing. Had you ever heard of that before?
KELLY: Well, I've heard rumors of that, but the only thing I recall was that Porter McKeever told me that Jimmy Byrnes, I think Byrnes was Secretary of State then, had sort of a showdown with the Russian representatives at the U.N. Maybe it was Gromyko at that time. McKeever told me that Byrnes had told them that if they didn't move out, that some drastic steps would be taken by the United States, and this came directly with the authority of the President, something like that.
JOHNSON: Porter McKeever told you this?
KELLY: Porter McKeever. He was the PR man then for the State Department, or the American delegation to the U.N., one or the other.
JOHNSON: But he had told you that this is what Jimmy Byrnes had said.
KELLY: What Jimmy Byrnes said, yes. I don't know if Porter is still alive or not." ----Frank K. Kelly Oral History Interview | Harry S. Truman (trumanlibrary.gov)
Truman haette niemals Stalin mit Bomben, erst recht nicht mit A-bomben gedroht, dazu war er viel zu 'dignified', diplomatisch. Hier ist seine Einstellung bezgl A-Bomben Einsatz:
"Now, once in a while, I get a letter from some impatient person asking, why don’t we get it over with? Why don’t we issue an ultimatum, make all-out war, drop the atomic bomb?
For most Americans, the answer is quite simple: We are not made that way. We are a moral people. Peace is our goal, with justice and freedom. We cannot, of our own free will, violate the very principles that we are striving to defend. The whole purpose of what we are doing is to prevent world war III. Starting a war is no way to make peace."
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Was die „Gustloff“ angeht, ich hatte dieses Jahr erst Günther Grass‘ „Im Krebsgang“ gelesen, das Buch habe ich aus einer Erbmasse erhalten. Ist nicht meine Baustelle, so traurig wie es auch war, es war eine Epsisode im U-Boot-Krieg des WK II.
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Was Wikipedia angeht, melden Sie sich doch einfach an und geben Sie Ihren Snf dazu.
Es gibt da auch eine Diskussionsseite, wo man herumheulen kann, wenn Ihr Beitrag zu dem entsprechenden Lemma gelöscht wird. Und in den Versionshistorien können Sie dann die Änderungen sehen.
Danke Dir 'mabac', doch vertiefe ich mich lieber in Biographien und Geschichtsbuecher :selbstlob:
