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Warsaw Peace Conference's

ghtful news, Comrades! The outbreak of peace in Korea, the activities in Meluya and Indo-China, and the peace

march through Tibet have stopped !"

Mr. Churchill's

·Grunnings'

Lady Megan Lloyd George's

Joseph Stalin's

Comrade Stalin ! Everyone is out of step except

Marshal Tito."

London Express Service

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1. The Kremlin is not ready for, and cannot risk, a general wor.

2. The Kremlin is not ready to face the propaganda defeat

Secretary-General Mr a walk-out from the United Lie and thirty Nations would mean--and will world figures here therefore stay on.

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if they would mind close to general war in Korea

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said it was daughter Korean adventura stirred up too. garet's favourite song. much Western rearmament and

mediately the mounting" remobilisation for their Own on of the U.N. atmosphere good.

into slapstick, with

Therefore, they are sure the

cover

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Chapter 241 M

ACROSS

FIRST MEETING WITH STALIN

ROLOPAT

By Winston Churchill

ATE on the night of

Aug. 10, 1942, after

in

now. In the Soviet

o

course

command,

that we were Dying alone, and rpacious reception room to go all the time? a wireless message

buck

I was conducted through n they not, for instance, come and explained bedroom and bathroom of al-

I explained that they could that our second plane, with the most equal size. Blazing, al- C.I.G.S. Wavell, Cadogan and most dazzling, electric lights indeed come and go, but at this others, had had to turn

displayed the

spotless cleanll- range they would have no: Linge

to water fight, and I added that an air over Teheran because of engine mess. The hot and cold

Eushed. I longed for

hot umbrella, to be of any use had to trouble.

bath after the length and the be kept open. He then said heat of the journey. All instantly prepared.

u

that

was there was not a single Gennan division in France of any value, a statempat which I contented.

were various aideboards were laden air umbrella anywhero excrat Two Russion officers

the with every delicacy and stimu- actually across the Straits. Ho plane, and

can did not seem to understand, and assumed lant that supreme power Government

asked some questions, about the a dinner of notables

responsibility for our

range of fighter planes. Could at

noticed. arrival. I the genial Cairo and safe Embassy, we starteil for Moscow. My party, which filled three planes, now cluded the C.I.G.S., Gen. Wavell, who spoke Rus sian, Air Marshal Tedder, and Sir Alexander Cadogan, In two hour the waters of Averell Harriman and I the Caspian Sea shone ahead.

Beneath was. Enzell. I bad travelled together.

never seen the Casplan, but I I noticed that the basing There were in France 25 Ger remembered how a quarter of were not fed by separate hot man divisions, nine of which as and cold water taps and that were of the first line. He shook Sir Reader Bullard,

his a century before I had,

and his head. Majesty's Minister in Teheran, Secretary of State for War, in- they had no plugs, Hot

which cold turned .on at Onco met me on the Teheran airfield herited a fleet upon it

I said that I had brought the min. He Was a for nearly a year ruled its pale, through a single spout, about 8.30 am.

gled to exactly the

- Chief of the Imperial General ex- placid waters.

tempera- Staff and Gen. Sir Archibald tough Briton, with long

ture one desired. Moreover, Wavell with me in order that perience of Persia and no illu~

one did not wash one's hands sions. We were too late to leap

in the bacias, but under the such points might be examined the northern range of the El

in detall with the

Russian dark,

taps. General Staff. There was a point burz Mountains before

beyond which statesmen could not carry discussions

and I found myself graciously bidden to lunch with the Shah

Wide horizon

flowing current of the In a modest way I have adopt We now came down to B

ed this system at home. If there is no scarcity of water kind,

an abrupt spur of the moun- thore, which we taina.

no

of

this

: a palace with a lovely swim- height where oxygen was ming pool amid great trees on longer needed. On the western it is far the best...

could dimly sce, lay Baku add its oll After all necessary Immer- felds. The German armles sons and ablutions we were

In the dining-room Stalin, whose glumness had bý

Risks, in war

In the afternoon in the gar- were now so near the Caspian regaled

that our course was set for with every form of cholce now much increased, said that,

den of the

with Averell various high American railway

and authorities the end it was decided that

United States should take over spread vast expanses of Rus- or consuming powers, Besides, 18ful than helpful for 13.1

the whole Trans-Persian

plan. This

railway,

British Legation Kuibyshev, keeping well away food and liquor, including, or as he understood it, we were there was a long conference from Stalingrad and the battle

caviare and vodka, unable to create a second front Harriman

*and area. This took us across the course,

but with

dishes with any large force and unwill- many other British

delta of the Volag and wines from

France and ing even lo land she divisions. I. As far as the eye could reach Germany far beyond our mood said that this was so. We could land six divisions, but the of. them would be more roll- sia, brown and flat and with we had, but little time before way from the Gulf to the Cas- hardly a sign of human habita- starting for Moscow. I had would greatly injure the big newly tion. Here and there sharp rec-, told Molotov that should be operation planned for next year, completed by a British Arm, lineal patches of ploughed ready to see Stalin that night. War was war, but not folly, and

an was a remarkable engineering land revealed occasional and he proposed seven o'clock, it would be folly to Invite a

390 State farm. achievement. There were

For a long way

disaster which would help on its major bridges

track through the mountain gorges. curves and stretches as

ed between its wide,

the news I I reached the Kremlin, and brought was not good news. If of marsh. margins n road, straight as a ruler, ran met for the first time the great by throwing in,150,000 to 200,000 from one wide horizon to the Revoluntionary Chief and pro- men we could render him aid other. After an hour or so of found Russian statesman and by drawing away from the Rus- German this i clambered back

along warrior with whom for the sian front appreciable cabin next three years I was to be forces, we would not shrink in intimate, rigorous, but al- from this course on the grounds ways exciting, and at times of loss. But if it drew no men tinually, I slept amid tall trees I pondered on my mission to even genial association.

away and spoiled the prospects for 1943 It would be a great!

Caspian Sea

On account of the heat and noise of Teheran, where every Persian seems to have a motor- car and blows his horn con-

6.30

now- it

dark Sometimes

the mighty Volga gleamed in In the Kremlin nobody.

I said, I feared

the bomb racks to the and slept.

Bolshevik

at the summer residence of the this sullen, sinister British Legation about a thou- State I had once tried so hard Our conference lasted nearly error. sand feet above the city. At to strangle at its birth, and four hours, As Our second Stalin, who had become rest- next morning. Aug. 12, which, until Hitler appeared, I aeroplane had not arrived with less, said that his vłow about we started, galning height 09 had regarded as the mortal for Brooke, Wavell and Cadogan, war was different. A man who we flew through the great of clvilised freedom. What was there were present only Stalin, was not prepared to take risks valley which led to Tabriz, and it my duty to say to them Molotov, Voroshilov, myself, could not win a wàr. Why were then turned northwards to En- now? Gen. Wavell, who had Harriman and our Ambassador, we so afraid of the Germans? zell, on the Casplan.

fiterary inclinations, had sum- with Interpreters, The firs He could not understand. His med it all up in a poem which two hours were blenk atel he had shown me the night sombre. before. There were several

They're playing poker at UN

verses, and the last line of I began at once with

cach was,

In 1942,'

experience

showed that troops must be blooded in battle. If you did not blood your troops the you had no idea what their value WANNA-

Oppressive

"No Second Front question af the Second Front,

saying that I whined-to speak' frankly and would like to Invite complete frankness from

In Moscow

Stalin. When M, Molotov had I inquired whether he had. come to London: I had told, ever asked ́ ́ himself why Hitler

Molotov

the

B

memorandum

problem

to

of the operation. It is not sO easy to cross the Channel.

had been

It was like carrying a large him that we were trying to did not come to England in 1940) lump of ice to the North Pole. make plans for a diversion In when he was at the height:at ht Still, I was sure it was my France. I had also made it clear power and we had only 20,000. duty to tell them the facts that I could make no promises trained troops, 200 guns, and 50:

The personally and have it all out face to face with Stalin, rather about 1942, and had given M. tanks. He did not come.

fact was that liitler was afraid than trust to telegrams and this effect. intermediaries. At least it showed that

cared- for Since then sn exhaustive

Stalin replied that this was no their fortunes and understood Anglo-American examination what their struggle meant to or

analogy The landing of Hilter

would have been the general war. We had al- carried out.

The British and reatuted by the Pesh landing England

whereas ways hated their wicked

re American Governments did not in the case of a Kime, and, till the German

A feel themselves able to un- in France the people would

uld be Gail beat upon ̈ ́ them, they

dertake a major operation. In on the side of the British. -I would have watched us being

which was the pointed out that it was all the with September, swept youte of existence

latest month in which Indifference and.

the more important therefore not to gleefully

was to be divided with Hitler our Em- weather

counted expose the people of France by upon. But, as M. Stalin knew, a withdrawal to the vengeance pire in the East.

they were preparing for of Hitler, and to waste them

a

when they would be needed in *** At about dve o'clock the very great operation in 1943.

of Moscow

spreadth the big operation in 1943. spires and domes

For this purpose 1m. Ameri- in

We circled sight. came

There Was

oppressive city by carefully can troops were now scheduled alience. Stalin at length said that Around the prescribed courses along which to reach the United Kingdom if we could not make a landing all the batteries hod been at their point of assembly in in France this year he was not warned, and landed on the air the spring of 1943, making an entitled to demand it or, to fold which I was to revisit expeditionury force of 27. Insit upan it, but he was during the struggle.

divialoris, to which the British bound to say that he did n Government were prepared to agree with my arguments........ Here was Molotov at the add 21, divisions. Nearly half head of a concourse of Rus of this force would be Islan generals and the entire armoured,

Diplomatic Corps, with the very large outfit of photo-

graphers and reporters

cus-

tomary on these occasions, M.

273 18

4

Glum Stalin

ed Vychinsky so much that the Russians hope a rebirth dinnern, discussions, drawing. eight miles out of Moscow, uo help, to Russia in 1942, but

ho

roso

heralded of

European, apathy

feat to propose ́à châm- · economic strain - will

toast to the orchestr rearmament plan. thrilled everyone so much

conversation bubbled and

ed

and room conversations, piling upstate Villa No. 7." bit the an overwhelming. mars of supeja

port, in effect, against the Russian right

veto U.N.

So, armed with, what they action. about the need for believe to be the cicurest know-

in Keyen, Indo-China, the ledge, of Soviet, intentions they,

Dean Acheson's long-term

WES to. convince

for treaties in Austria, have had since the end of the objective

Germany and unRuian topics.

of poken

Two-inch glass

While going through

of Moscow,

自益

Great enterprise

I then unfolded "a"map" of Southern Europe, the Mediter ranean and North Africa. What

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in the Loire, the I then said I had good reasons

Gironde, ar:alternatively the s settling down to a hard game and air contingente from more the window for a little more air, and to my surprise I felt

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thick. This surpassed Cough handlar craft for only general picture of next years inches Secretary of State, "MI THONG, was decided, but

all records in my experienco anos tandiruoting big operation.

crafır Acheson, toasted" orch- Incidents of this noturd; arợ:

"The Minister says it is more hard

const enough to throw ashore plate more and more vyshinsky And he joined

prudent"," zafel

Tarterpreter alx mere these days.

propaganda war by

NY time before Korea the Pavlov. In a little more than divisions and maintain them. practicable. I said that it would telling A

ware successful,

more Rusalane would have staged half an hour we reached the,

Indeed bo dlouhould have the Incident, the gen President Truman to malce n

alona

might from villa

sent, but "walk-out and the virtually goneral completely meaningless spotch a ceremonial

factor was landing men, but that we that the Rumlaria (saya about the need for disarmament the United Nations rather than

sething the lentil) which sounded to good pro- discuss Mr Acheson's plans with totalitarian invlohness,

Aming of thu salon Bay ie the odog, kry Frogunde lewise as anything But the "mehsurd

atble for the most exclleyshinsky had said in months wastorn strength, and of their There was placed at my own "almmering down, was posals aide-de-camp, enormous, splendid-looking orchily-under

stunin #perion the General ibly lea, aven/known.

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