From Yalta to Malta

Fifty years ago today, the US President and the British Prime Minister met in Malta to prepare for their meeting with the President of the Soviet Union. It is rumoured that Malta was chosen as the location for the summit in 1989 between the US President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev because it ryhmes with Yalta. Many Americans speak of Yalta to Malta when they refer to the Cold War period. From 'This day in US military history' blog:

2 February 1945
President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill departed Malta for the Yalta summit with Soviet leader Josef Stalin.

The Yalta Conference February 1945 - Wikipedia

'From Yalta to Malta' on CNN

Transcripts from the Malta Summit in 1989

'Europe in the post Yalta era' from The Nation