A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation [Edmund Burke â Reflections on the Revolution in France] Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Introduction. The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germanyâs unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world.
World Leaders at the Yalta Conference. The Allied leaders came to Yalta knowing that an Allied victory in Europe was practically inevitable but less convinced that the Pacific war was nearing an end.