Winston Churchill came home to Britain with a sly twinkle in his eye. In Moscow bands had met him. In the Kremlin Joseph Stalin had smiled warmly and said: "Radvidet vas gospodin Chercheel" (Delighted to see you Mr. Churchill). Then they had talked through interpreters, for three hours and 40 minutes.
Other conferences with military and political bigshots had followed during four days. Moscow reported only that "a number of decisions were reached covering the field of war against Hitlerite Germany [Stalin's favorite phrase] and her associates." But no one needed to be told what the conferences were about: how to...
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