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...Yalta Papers...
Congratulations on the-best and most exact appraisal of The Yalta Story [March 28]. The subtitle tells practically the whole story in a nutshell: "The peace was lost by ignoring justice and the facts of life...
Tory Sir Ian Horobin brought up Yalta and its disclosures about Roosevelt's remark to Stalin that Churchill would have strong objections to giving up the colony of Hong Kong. "Strong objections," Churchill rumbled, "that was certainly correct." He paused a moment and then, in a lionlike voice, added: "-And even an understatement...
Adding a footnote to one of history's most enormous footnotes-the State Department's publication of the Yalta papers (TIME, March 28)-retired Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, onetime personal physician to Franklin D. Roosevelt and now head of the International College of Surgeons, stoutly denied that Roosevelt was a dying man at Yalta. F.D.R.'s wan appearance was no index to his general health, said Dr. Mclntire. The President had lost 15 Ibs. after a bout with flu and bronchitis, looked scrawny-necked because his shirt collars were needlessly loose. "He refused...
know what he was doing at Yalta? Said Mclntire unequivocally: "[He] was completely responsible for his acts ... He was physically tired but as mentally alert as I had ever seen...