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{"TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY",

CHAPTER 22)

By Sir Winston Churchill

} HE Germans lund Dresden, for example. "We Cadogan (then Permanent Under- time had now come, he said, to ovnculated the neigh shall follow him," was the re Secretary for Foreign Affairs), take a definite decision.

Sir Edward Bridges (thén Cabinet bourhood only ten ply

Secretary), and Sir Archibald I said that we all agreed that months carlier, and He went on to say that the Clark Kerr, cu: Ambassador in Germany should be dismem- The surrounding, buildings Oder was no longer an obstacle, Moscow. Major Birse interpretes bered, but the actual method As the Red Army had several for us, as he had always done was much too amplicated to be had, been badly damaged, bridgeheads across it and the since my first meeting with Stalin settled in five or six days. It We were warned that the Germans were using untrained, at Moscow in 1942.

would require a very searching area had not been complete volkssturm

ill-equipped

historical, examination of the for It defence.

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usual, and use them to defend the

choice heavily patrolled by Russian thousand men had Over a forces at work un, the scene be- re our crrival. Windows and Your Selection, doors had been repaired, and brought furniture and stores down from Moscow.

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river, but the Russian armour THE discussion zened chat ad bypassed them. Now they future of Germany. I had of only a mobile or strategle course pondered this problem, reserve of 20 or 30 badly train- and had addressed Mr Eden s

month before. cd divisions,

Prinme

The setting of our abode was WHEN I asked Stalin what the villa, he thought of Rundstedt's Impressive. Behind

and half Moorish offensivo against the Americans, half Gothic in style,

a stupid manoeuvre rose the mountains, called covered in know, culminating which had harmed Germany the highest peak in the Crimed, and was done for prestige. The Before us lay the dark expanse. German military body was sick of the Black Sea, severe, but ad could not be cured by such still agreeable and warm even methods. The best generals at this time of the year.

Carved white llons guarded the entrance to the house, and beyond the courtyard, lay a fine park with sub-tropical plants and cypresses in the dining

I recognised the two paintings hanging each side of the fireplace us copies of family portraits of the Herberts at Wilion. It appeared that Prince

room

1

Vorontzov had

married family, and of the daughter had brought these pictures back with him from England.

AVERY effort was made by our E

hosts to ensure our comfort, and every chance remark noted one with kindly attention. On occasion Portal had admired #

hua'

gone and only Guderian was left, and he was an adven- turer.

Minister to Foreign Secretary

4 Jan. 45 Treatment of Germany after the war. It is much too soon for us to decide these enormous questions. Obviously, when the Geman organised resistance has ceased, the first stage will be one of severe military con- tml. This may well last for many months, or perhaps for a year or two, if the German underground movement is active.

go

There was so much to con- alder. What to do wih Prussia? What territory should be given to Poland

the U.S.S.R.? the Rhino Who was to control valley and the great industrial zones of the Ruhr and the Saar? These were questions which needed profund study, and His would Majesty's Government want to consider carefully the attitude of their two great Allet, A body should be

to examine these up at once matters, and we ought to have fla report before reaching any Fnal decision.

set

The Yalta Con ference of Febru-"

ary.

1945, held its: plenary meetings in the Livadia Palace, where Mr Roose- velt was accommo- dated. Stalin and his advisors had their headquarters at the Yusupov [Palace, while the principal British de- legates were housed five miles away at the Villa Vorontzov.

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"A little less of the white man's burden and a little more dancing' in 'your underwear and we mighan't

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Nathaniel Gubbins

D

R EDITH SUMMER- SKILL'S word. plc- ture in the House of Commons of tiny grand- mothers, starved by past Governments, contemplat ing the towering stature of their enormous grand- children, properly fed by the Socialist Government, is confirmed by Dr E. M. B. Clements, writing in the British Medical Journal.

Dr

average

We have yet to settle the practical questions of the par- Ullon of Germany, the trial- If the German divisions cut

ment of the Ruhr and Satr off in East Prussia had been

Industries, &. These may be withdrawn in time they might

touched upon at our fortheem

THEN speculated on the I doubt have been used to defend Ber-

ing meciing, but I

Clemonta says that the Germans wero lin but the

future. If Hitler or Himmler still had 11 foolish

whether any daal decision will

child today is three They

be reached then. No one can were to come forward and offer 100 armoured divisions at Budapest,

foresee at the present moment unconditional surrender it was inches taller and eight pounds but they had failed to realise

than children of the what the state of Europe will clear that our answer should be heavier no longer a that they were

be or what the relations of the that we would not negotiate same age in 1010 or earlier. world-Power and could not

criminals. what with any of the war Great Powera will be, or have forces wherever the temper of their peoples If they were the only people the wished. They

wo could produco will be. I am mure that the Germans hatreds which Germany har should have to go on with the caused in so many countries war. will find thel: counterpart here.

would under- stand in due time, but it would be too late,

I then showed him my map- room, already fully mounted by Capt. Plm, and after de- scribing our position in the asked Field-Marshal West I Alexander to explain what was happening

in

Italy. Stalin's comment was interesting, The Germans were unlikely to at tack us. Could we not leave a few British divisions on the the rest to front and transfer Yugoslavia and Hungary and Vienna? that direct them against

Join the Red Here they could Army and outflank the Germans who were south of the Alps. He added that we might need a considerable force,

large glass tank with plants remarked growing in it, and that it contained no fish. Two days faler a consignment of goldfish arrived, Another time seinebody said casually there was no lemon-peel in the cocktails. The next day a lemon tree loaded with fruit growing In the hall. All was must have come by air from far away.

At three o'clock on Feb. 4, the day after our arrival, Stalin called on me, and we had an agreeable discussion about the war against Germany: He was optimistic. Germany was short of bread and coal; her trans- port was seriously damaged. I asked what the Russians would do if Hitler moved south

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¡AT

Tive o'clock the President,

Stalin, and I met to review. the military situation, and in particular the Russian offensive on the Eastern Front: We heard a detailed account of the pro- Fress of the Hursian Army, and also set the frame for the com- ing discussions between our respective Chiefs of Staff.

..

All of which has scared the of this grand- daylights out

who was looking for- parent, ward to a peaceful old age,

For It was

when, and if, Granter more probabio that I have been struck at every Hitler and his associates would Gubbins Becomes Great Granfer point where I have sounded be killed ar would disappear, Gubbins children of the future, penicillin, like opinion at the depth of the and that another set of people possibly fed on

them sur- modern pigs, Ceeling that would be aroured would offer uncoded the even

to make bigger, will probably bo by a polley of "putting poor render. If this

must im- about twelve feet high and Germany on her legs again." three Great Powers am also well aware of the mediately consult and decide weigh a couple of tons. arguments about "not having a whether they were worth deal- You have only to think of poisoned ccmunity in the ing with or not. heart of Europe.".

1 do suggest that, with all - the work we have on our hands at the present moment, we should not anticipate there very grievous discussions and schiers, -13 they may become. We have a new Parliament to consider, whose opinion cannot foretell.

If they were

the terms of surrender which what

a normal-sized flend of

Could, just exist on what, he

left,

After dear papa was laid In the pround and taxes pald. Strange but rather sweet thèn

scom,

As they walk Mayfair and

dream,

Dream of gas lamps after dark, Summer Sundays in the park, When the carriages and patrí Clopped along the silent

SQUATCS--

And girls who dared to know

young men Were always home at half-

past ten.

Strange they seem and rather

sweet,

As they trudge on heavy feet, Killing all the idle hours, In hats piled high with birds

and flowers,

Dressed in old and smelly

tinceds

Scornful stilt of lesser breeds, Lesser breeds who call them

"Man

Bre;

However strange and sweet Lesser breeds, the vulgar

brutes, Who call them "love" and

"ducks" and "toots," Unaware, that "Toota" or

"Ma

Once Hoed In

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"

style

in

had been worked out would be five can do to make your life.

to Imagine what fald before them; if not, the miserable war would be continued and the will happen to enfeebled gran Man In A Pub

cut a long story short," Tut The Man in the Pub,

whole country put under strict fers and granmers at the mercy of two-ton tots sucking lollies as military government.

big as leebergs and thundering Mr Roosevelt suggested asking about the place on scopters as our Foreign Secretaries to pro- big as bulldozers.

"I was sitting in the chair duce

plan for studying the

Grant question within 24 hours and a

granters and great you're sliting in now listening plan for to definite

dianember-granmers will be like dolls in to the sports news when who Here, the powerful bands of the giants You remember old Ted?"

should come in but old Ted. ment within a month,

in rompers. for a time, the matter was left.

we

rem'nis m' of my Uncle Albert, who never bought a meal in his life. In the good old days when you could get all the free bread and cheese

wanted you for the arking in any lensed house, my Uncle Albert went place to place va if the chepp#"

I shall myself prefer concentrate upon the practical Issues which will occupy the

I said I had never heard of next two or three years, rather

Other questions were dis- With a roar of "Great Gran- old Tod. than argue about the long-term relationship of Germany to cussed, but not settled. The mer wants a barf," the giants

"Get along with you" said Europe. I remember so well last Fresident asked whether the will rush at the cringing little

Mon, "O'd_Ted's the Time

shocked at the French should be given a zone figure in the arm-chair by the The boing. savage views of the House of of occupation in Germany: We Bre, grab her by one leg and one who makes his Sunday din

to the mer oft the, frie mucks on the agreed that this should certainly carry her upside down Coextrons and of the con-

where she will be counter and grumbles'about the stituencies, and being indignant be done by allocating to them bathroom, with Poincare when he sent the part of the British and Ameri- stripped and plunged into boil beer. In some ways old Ted French Into the Ruhr.

can zonos, and that the Foreigning or freezing water. Secretaries should consider how In a few years, however, the this area was to be controlled, If she wo! then discarded mood of Pa:tfament and the

and left thivering on the bath public changed entirely. Thou At Stalin's request M. Malsky room floor she will be given sands of millions of money then

expounded a Russian ten with great granter whether were lent to Germany by the scheme for maiding Germany either of them wants it or not. Unlied States. I went long pay reparations and for dis- I said that one of the ques-

with the tolerant polley to mantling her munitions Indus- Stale cake crumbs and bits of tions we should consider wRS how long it would take the wards Germany up to the tries. I said that the experience brown apple peel will be ram- you could get and stumine h'm- Locarno Treaty and during the of the last war had been very mod down their throats. If with enough free cheese to enemy to move eight divisions

rest of Mr Baldwin's Govern- disappointing, and did not be they resist, broken biscuits and halt all the mouto traps in from Italy to the battle-front

Chias. Of

, it; paid n cours against Russia, and

ment en the grounds that lleve it would bo pesalble to ex half-fucked sweets will be ram- what counter-action, we should take. Germany had no power to harm tract from Germany anything med into their cars and up their the end because he died worth Perhaps we ought

which M. noses. -to-transfer

But thereafter a very like

a tidy packet in 1923. Or was the amount swift change occurred. The ire Maisky had suggested should be

It divisions from Northern Italy to

19247" strengthen our attacking forces of Hiller began, And there- paid to Russly alone.

When the plant valt to play" defors ng kurso the old elsewhere.

after I once again found mmv-

I said had no idea, Another issue was whether we should try to strike self very much out of sympathy

couple will be carried (still up→

ile down) to bed. They will "No. a Har" said The at the head of the Adriatic, with the prevailing encod.

Have their temperatures liken, that was the year my daughter Man, was in 1925, because through the Ljubijana Gap, and Join up with the Russian

It is a mistake to try to write

this case walldische Marin nank.

wns.born." beld out on Hittle pieces of paper

bischou? ser

Tamanna be Margo, the one outraged and quivering world

threats.

who cant dat eggs?!! will be either immediately after boon destroyed. We had parted the struggle is over or when with much of our foreign in-

When the giants think they The Man said Noa"It's my the inevitable cold. At follows vestments and were faced with naughty, which will be often, the daughter *Vh) can't the hot, These awe-inspiring the problem of how to raise our the will be laid acroes, gigantio est eggs, andejarko, who can't

to pay for tides of feeling deminate most exports sufficiently

oft

The atmosphere of the meeting was most cordial. Gen. Marshall gave us a brilliantly concise Account of Anglo-American operations in the West. Stalin raid that the Russian offensive in January had been launched as a moral duty, quite unconnected with the decisions made at Teheran, and he now asked how he could continue to help. I replied that now was the moment, when the three Stars wore met together, to review the whole question of military co-ordination | between the Allies.

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these burdens could be substan- distr arms are not pulled off. tally lightened by German re- At the end of the day when of fish and Vi is lying on her bed Ilke a dead thing... And Guidance in these mundane parations. Other countries had they have boon bumped · in matters 13 granted to us only also suffered and would have to prams our curb-stones and that reminds me of the year to step by step, ar at the utmost be considered.

crashed in lamp-posts they and the wife and the daughters a step as two ahead. There is

we be left in the garden all spent a holiday in. France,

was at Itly?!? therefore wisdem in referving What would happen' it Ger- nd ist, one's decisions a long as many were reduced to starva-

Isaid I wouldn't know. we intend to stand Let's hope it won't rain. possible and until all the facts tion? Did and forces that will be potent by and do nothing and say i

"No. I'm a llar sald The at the moment are revealed. served her right? Or did

"It must have been Spain Perhaps our approaching triple propose to food the Germans, discussions will throw more and, if 80

so, who would pay?

the cooking made the wife as Stalin said that those questiona

ick would・azino anyway, and 1 26 The Y APILL WODECK ou auolellious,ime. Vik on love answered, that if you wanted a bersa, to pull your wagon you had to give him some bay.

We aventally agreed that the CTALIN now asked how Ger Ramlan proposal should -bo many was to be_dimmane examined by a special commis- bered, Were

we to have one son, which would sit in secrel Clovetnmmit or several," or at Moscow. We then arranged

form of – menynly mono),

adon? If Hitler, surrendered two topics which were to do

to meet next day, and consider

· adminis= unconditionally bouls powe premimirate, our 3 future discussions, The American delegation was serve his Govestirent or refuse namely the Dumbarton: Oakes tcheme for world security and Houses by Presidem Roosevelt to treat with it? At Tet

urbed Poland and. Mr. Stettinius, and included Mrs Roosevelt had Admi

nl Leshy, Byrnes, Harben dividing Germany into AF dve ve

Mathews, (Director of parts, and her had agreed win) (Continued Tomorrów). ropean #Affairs:]n• the State? Almi?I; on the othár, hand, had s Department) and Bahleri (special hotated and had only wanted wave Aissant troma the State Dintre has to be mule into twos namelyje

WE first plenary meeting of THE

the Conferance started at [4.18'on the afternoon of Feb. ¡5. We met in the Livadia Palace, and look our seals at a round table. With the thrie „inter- proters we were 23. With Sielin land" Molotov · were

Maksky ** Gousse (thu Ambassador in-, London)" and Gromyko (the Russian AmbasORM/ dor a Washington). Pavlov acted Ins Interpreter,,

Prum Mes and feAlerts Bavaring: (Werid/Cepyright Nerved.” Rear Bandera met: barkder mast and maykowicka Che? HALKS and Westphalia" production; even partially, in any

THINK THE Idexis, oppors

matador. see in Mayfair, are strange but with pi

Of course 'rother · swen).”~-American girt with foreign-- dishes you never photographer, Ings, Morath, know what's in them, so it was unlucky for: Vi that sho Strange but rather sweat they swallowed a bit of fish In a salad before she went to the Dreaming, still of dear papa. Dear papa who always knew bullaght. And what with

fish Lirido, her and the What a well-bred giri should, wight of blood she went off into Khaft and had to be taken away daughters on ti streicher

Understood, www.couldn't,

Even better what they an

Dear papa, who made a pile Bought a house and lived ind

Worki

the frota of thầyder ingy

the

Ds and Blarge we said "The “Hi: wouldn't hay it was our-best-holidays, a. Vi har screamed The sight of roast beet ever long

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