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Article: Yalta and the 'voting formula.' (Big Three meeting at pre-United Nations summit)(A Look Back, February 1945)
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- UN Chronicle
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- March 1, 1995
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Beginning at 11:30 on the night of 2 February 1945, the first of 25 military transport planes took off from the Mediterranean island of Malta. They left at 10-minute intervals, until all were airborne shortly before dawn. The American and British aircraft were carrying nearly 700 passengers, including United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and United Kingdom's Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, 1,400 miles east to the Crimea for a week-long summit conference at Yalta with the Soviet Union's Premier, Joseph V. Stalin.
With the end of the ferociously fought war in Europe 13 weeks away, critical military and political decisions had to be made. The heads of ...