Like the pea in a shell game, Britain's Prime Minister had vanished from Washington and reappeared (could it be the same cigar?) in London. Gathering its wits again, Washington felt not unlike a bewildered yokel. What had Churchill and Roosevelt been up to? What had been accomplished? In the troubled air, like motes in a just-dusted room, hung questions, not yet answered, perhaps unanswerable.
Some people in Washingtonstill suffering from the national inferiority complexwhich holds that an American is always out-traded by a Briton in a conferencefeared that the Prime Minister had sold the President...