Conclusion
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2020

Limited interest has been shown by historians to the contribution of the press to the complex debates that had already begun in the war years regarding the policy choices and prospects for maintaining peace after the war. In particular, the period during the first, still unformed, years of the Cold War—that is to say, from the Potsdam and Yalta conferences through the Brussels Treaty to the signing of the Atlantic Pact—was crucial for shaping the power balances and for taking decisions that woul