Yalta Conference

At that first Friday meeting Truman asked Byrnes to transcribe his shorthand notes on the Yalta Conference, three months past, which Byrnes had attended as one of Roosevelt s advisers and about which Truman, merely the Vice President then, knew little. Yalta represented nearly all Byrnes direct experience of foreign affairs. It was more than Truman had. Under the circumstances the new President found it sufficient and informed his colleague that he meant to make him Secretary of State. Byrnes did not object. He insisted that he be given a free hand, however, as Roosevelt had given him in domestic affairs, and Truman agreed. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt (centre, 1882-1945) was diagnosed with high blood pressure in 1937. He was prescribed bed rest, a low-salt diet and Phenobarbital, though this did not improve his condition. In 1940, his heart failed several times, whereupon he received digitalis. By the time of the Yalta conference in February 1945, his blood pressure had risen to 250/150. A few months later, he died of a massive cerebral haemorrhage. 

Shanin, Yu.I. (1997) Choice of hydrides for two-stage hydride chemical heat pumps. - In abstract book 5th international conference "Hydrogen materials science and chemistry of metal hydrides . (ICHMS 97) (Katsiveli, Yalta, Ukraine, September 02-08, 1997), p. 256. (In Russian and English). 

Astahov, B.A., Afanasjev, V.A., Bokalo, S.J., et al. (1999) Creation of smallsized refrigerating installations with a metal hydride heat pump. - 6th NATO Int. Conf. Hydrogen Material Science and Chemistry of Metal Hydrides ", ICHMS 99. Abstract Book of NATO International Conference. Katsiveli, Yalta, Ukraine, September 02-08, 1999, 306-307 (in English and Russian). 

Goryachev Yu. M., Dekhteruk V. I. et al. Electron mechanism of baric depedences of hydrogen - transition metal interaction. Proceedings of the Conference on hydrides and frillerenes, Kyiv - Yalta, IPMS NASU, 1999, 11 - 12. 

Z.M. Amirshikhova, G.V. Kozlov and G.M. Magomedov in the Proceedings of 30th Anniversary International Conference Composite Materials in Industry (SLAVPOLICOM), Yalta, Ukraine, 2001, p.268. 

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