Page 630. " Father knuckling under like Roosevelt at Yalta "

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 The Yalta Conference of 1945 was a post-war meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union Secretary General Joseph Stalin. 

Stalin was accused of bullying Roosevelt as the men sought to re-organise Europe after the war. Here is an interesting article on the relationship between the two.



Page 633. " Troeltsch, who's buried in Grant's Tomb? "

Grant's Tomb is a mausoleum in Manhattan containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia Dent Grant. This question is actually a riddle. The obvious answer would be Grant and his wife, but technically they are entombed, not buried, as the tomb itself isn't underground.