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...little word dominated the news last week. It was YALTA, a name that evoked many memories, reposed many questions. One of the early questioners quoted by TIME (March 5, 1945) was George Bernard Shaw. The Yalta Conference, snorted Shaw, was "an impudently incredible fairy tale ... I for one should like to know what really passed . . . This will come out 20 years hence ... But I shall not then be alive -I shall never know...
...study, digest and interpret is the job of a weekly newsmagazine, one of the services that TIME must give its readers. This week TIME'S editors pre sent a special six-page section on the new Yalta material, including three other related stories...
...story The Light of History, in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, reports domestic reaction to the release of the Yalta documents and answers two key questions : Why were they released now, and what effect will it have on international relations...
...FOREIGN NEWS story Reaction to Yalta is a roundup of official and unofficial reaction from abroad. In PRESS, How to Lose a Beat offers a classic example of a Washington "leak," and tells the details and pro fessional mechanics of how the Yalta papers got into public print...
...special Yalta section deals with the documents - how the peace was lost before the war was won. It relates in detail how three men at the summit of authority sought to reshape the world in a week. What emerges is the real "spirit" of Yalta, a story more tragic than sensational. It is, as Shaw remarked, an "incredible fairy tale," but one without a happy ending, as you will see upon reading The Yalta Story...