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Recently, when the papers were ready for release, the British objected; they feared that publication would embarrass Sir Winston, the only surviving member of the Big Three. Because of this objection, the State Department decided to give the text only to 24 congressional leaders on a confidential basis. After some Democrats (including Georgia's venerable Walter George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) refused to accept copies, on the ground that they could not be kept confidential, the State Department decided to release none. But then a copy was "leaked" to the New York Times (see PRESS...
...year of total victory in the greatest of all wars, Winston Churchill concluded a top-secret cable to Franklin Roosevelt with this foreboding sentence: I THINK THAT THE END OF THIS WAR MAY WELL PROVE TO BE MORE DISAPPOINTING THAN WAS THE LAST. It did. Why and how the peace was lost before the war was won is revealed in the U.S. State Department's Yalta record, released ten years after the conference...
Marshal Stalin, the cobbler's son who was on the way to inheriting a quarter of the earth, proposed a toast to the Prime Minister of Great Britain: "The bravest governmental figure in the world . . . fighting friend, and a brave man." Winston Churchill, the pink-cheeked giant of Western statesmen, who was about to be ousted from power, raised glass to Marshal Stalin, who, "in peace no less than in war, will continue to lead his people from success to success." Stalin drank to the health of the President of the U.S.. "the chief forger of the instruments...
Three times last week the British Cabinet met in secret session. The agenda was not the H-bomb and the state of the world, but the most tantalizing question in British politics: When will Churchill retire? With Sir Winston in the chair, a tentative decision was reached: he is to resign in the first week of April, and the Queen will ask Sir Anthony Eden to take over as Prime Minister...
Even if Sir Winston should resign as scheduled, he has no intention of leaving the House of Commons. At 80, he has plans to travel to Russia as a "private person," just as his father did; to visit Germany and receive the Charlemagne Prize (for services to European unity) from the city of Aachen. He would continue to live at Chartwell, his lovely home in Kent, going to the House of Commons on special occasions to deliver speeches to which all the world would still listen...