When the door to the Prime Minister's cabin was opened by his valet, a strange sight greeted them. Winston Churchill, barefoot, was contemplating78 himself in a mirror in morning coat, tie, and yellow silk underdrawers. "Hello there, Harry." He ignored Captain Henry, stewing79 a long cigar around in his mouth. "I'm not aware that His Majesty's First Minister has ever before paid a call on the President of the United States at sea. I saw the President wearing a plain brown lounge suit. But he is the head of state. I am only a minister." Churchill's fat aged46 face was lit with puckish relish of the unique historical problem. "This looks odd, I know. My man of protocol80 wants me to wear the same old brass-buttoned jacket and cap. But it's such an informal dress." "Prime Minister," Hopkins said, "you do look more like a Former Naval81 Person in it." Churchill grinned at the whimsical name he used in messages to Roosevelt. He said to the valet, "Very well. The Trinity House uniform again. "This is Captain Victor Henry, Prime Minister, of Navy War Plans." Pulling down his eyebrows82, Churchill said, "Hello there. Have you done anything about those landing craft?" The eyes of Hopkins and Victor Henry met, and Churchill'wide mouth wrinkled with gratification. Pug said, "I'm amazed that you remember me, Mr.(s) Prime Minister. That's part of my job now. The other day I talked with the President at length about landing craft." "Well? Is the United States going to build enough of them? A very large number will be called for." "We will, sir." "Have our people given you everything you've requested?" "Their cooperation has been outstanding." "I think you'll find," Churchill rasped, as the valet helped him into enormous blue trousers, "that we simple islanders have hit on a design or two that may prove usable." Churchill spoke slowly, lisping on his s's, in a tone that was almost a growl84. Hopkins said a word of farewell to Churchill, and they left. In the passageway, with an incredulous grin, Hopkins remarked, "We've been having ceremonial rehearsals85 for days, and yet he's fussing to the last minute about what to wear! A very, very great man, all the same." As Hopkins shakily stepped aboard King's barge from the accommodation ladder, the stern rose high on a swell86, then dropped away from under him. He lost his balance and toppled into the arms of the coxswain, who said, "Ooops-a-daisy, sir." '?ug, I'll never be a sailor." Hopkins staggered inside, settling with a sigh on the cushions. "I flopped87 on my face boarding the seaplane that flew me to the Soviet union. That nearly endedmy mission right there." He glanced around at the flawlessly appointed barge. "Well, well. America! Peacetime! So-you're still in War Plans. You'll attend the staff meetings, then." "Some of them, yes, sir." "You might bear in mind what our friends will be after. It's fairly clear to me, after five days at sea with the Prime Minister." Hopkins held out one wasted hand and ticked off points on skeletal fingers. He seemed to be using Victor Henry as a sounding board to refresh his omen6 mind for his meeting with the President, for he talked half to himself. "First they'll press for an immediate89 declaration of war on Germany. They know they won't get that. But it softens90 the ground for the second demand, the real reason Winston Churchill has crossed the ocean. They want a warning by the United States to japan that any move against the British in Asia means war with us. their empire is mighty91 rickety at this point. They hope such a warning will shore it up. And they'll press for big war supplies to their people in Egypt and the Mddle East. Because if Hitler pokes92 down there and closes the canal, the Empire strangles. They'll a]SO try, subtly but hard-and I would too, in their place-for an understanding that in getting American aid they come ahead of Russia. Now is the time to bomb the hell out of Germany from the west, they'll say, and build up for the final assault. Stuff we give Russia, it will be hinted, may be turned around and pointed88 against us in a few weeks." Victor Henry said, "The President isn't thinking that way." "I hope not. If Hitler wins in Russia, he wins the world. If he loses in Russia he's finished, even if the Japanese move. The fight over there is of inconceivable magnitude. There must be seven million men shooting at each other, Pug. Seven million, or more." Hopkins spoke the figures slowly, stretching out the wasted fingers of both hands. -the Russian, have taken a shellacking so far, but they're unafraid. They want to throw the Germans out. That's the war now. That's where the stuff should go now.)) "Then this conference is almost pointless," said Pug. The barge was slowing and clanging as it drew near the Augusta. "No, it's a triumph," Hopkins said. The President of the United States and the British Prime Minister are meeting face to face to discuss beating the Germans. The world will know that. That's achievement enough for now." Hopkins gave Victor Henry a sad smile, and a brilliandv intelligent light came into his large eyes. He pulled himself to his feet in' the rocking boat. "Also, Pug, this is the changing of the guard." Winston Churchill came to the Augusta at eleven o'clock. Among the staff members with him, Captain Henry saw Lord Burne-Wilke, and a hallucinatory remembrance of Pamela Tudsbury in her blue W.A.A.F uniform distracted him from the dramatic handshake of Roosevelt andChurchill at the gangway. They prolonged the clasp for the photographers, exchanging smiling words. All morning, recollections of England and Pamela had been stirring Pug. The O.O.D's very British greeting at the Prince of Wales ladder, the glimpses of Undon magazines in the wardroom, Winston Churchill's voice with its thick s's, had wakened his memory like a song or a perfume. Goering's 1940 air blitz on London already seemed part of another era, almost another war. Standing83 well back in the rank of King's staff officers, this short unknovm Navy captain, whose face would be lost in the photographs, tried to shake irrelevancies from his brain and pay attention. In an odd way the two leaders diminished each other. They were both Number One Men. But that was impossible. Who, then, was Number One? Roosevelt stood a full head taller, but he was pathetically braced on lifeless leg frames, clinging to his son's arm, his full trousers drooped93 and flapping. Churchill, a bent Pickwick in blue uniform, looked up at him with majestic94 good humor, much older, more dignified95, more assured. Yet there was a trace of deference96 about the Prime Minister. By a shade of a shade, Roosevelt looked like Number One. Maybe that was what Hopkins had meant by "the changing of the guard." The picture-taking stopped at an unseen signal, the handshake ended, and a wheelchair appeared. The erect97 front-page President became the cripple more familiar to Pug, hobbling a step or two and sinking with relief into the chair. The great men and their military chiefs left the quarterdeck. The staffs got right to business and conferred all day. Victor Henry worked with the planners, on the level below the chiefs of staff and their deputies where Burne-Wilke operated, and of course far below the summit of the President, the Prime Minister, and their advisers98. Familiar problems came up at once: excessive and contradictory99 requests from the British services, unreal plans, unfilled contracts, jumbled100 priorities, fouled101 communications. One cardinal102 point the planners hammered out fast. Building new ships to replace U-boat sinkings came first. No war materiel could be used against Hitler until it had crossed the ocean. This plain truth, so simple once agreed on, ran a red line across every request, every program, every projection103. Steel, aluminum, rubber, valves, motors, machine tools, copper104 wire, all the thousand things of war, would go first to ships. This simple yardstick105 rapidly disclosed the poverty of the 'arsenal106 of democracy," and dictated-as a matter of hightening urgency-a gigantic job of building new steel mills, and plants to Turn the steel into combat machines and tools. Through all the talk of grand hypothetical plans-hundreds of ships, tens of thousands ofairplanes and tanks, millions of men-one pathetic item kept recurring107: an innnediate need for a hundred fifty thousand rifles. If Russia collapsed109, Hitler might try to wrap up the war with a Crete-like invasion of England from the air. Rifles for defending British airfields110 were lacking. The stupendous materiel figures for future joint111 invasions of North Africa or the French coast contrasted sadly with this plea for a hundred fifty thousand rifles now. Next morning, boats from all over the sparkling bay came clustering to the Prince of Wales for church services. On the surrounding hills, in sunlight that seemed almost blinding after days of gray mist, the forests of larch112 and fir glowed a rich green. An American destroyer slowly nosed its bridge alongside the battleship, exactly level with the main deck, and a gangplank was thrown across. Leaning on his son's arm and on a cane113, Franklin Roosevelt, in a blue suit and gray hat, lurched out on the gangplank, laboriously114 hitching115 one leg forward from the hip8, then the other. The bay was calm, but both ships were moving on long swells116. With each step, the tall President tottered117 and swayed. Victor Henry, like -all the Americans crowding the destroyer bridge, hardly breathed as Roosevelt painfully hobbled across the narrow unsteady planks118. Photographers waiting on the Prince of Wales quarterdeck were staring at the President, but Pug observed that not one of them was shooting this momentous119 crippled walk. He thought of Franklin Roosevelt as he had first known him-the young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the athletic120 cocksure dandy, the obvious charmer and lady-killer, full of himself, on top of the world, bounding up and down a destroyer's ladders and spouting121 salty lingo122. The yearz, had made of him this half-disabled gray man, heaving himself one agonized123 step at a time over a gangplank a few feet long; but here was enough willpower displayed, Pug thought, to win a world war. A ramp124 could have been.jury-rigged and laid across with ease. Franklin Roosevelt might have wheeled over in comfort and with dignity. But in his piteous fashion he could walk; and to board a British battleship, at Winston Churchill's invitation for church parade, he was walking. His foot touched the deck of the Prince of Wales. Churchill saluted125 him and offered his hand. The brass band burst forth126 with The StarSpangled Banner." Roosevelt stood at attention, his chest heaving, his face stiff with strain. Then escorted by Churchill, the President hitched127 and hobbled all the way across the deck, and sat. No wheelchair ever appeared. As the sailors massed in ranks around the afterdeck sang "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" and "Onward128 Christian129 Soldiers, " Winston I Churchill kept wiping his eyes. The old hymns130, roared by a thousand young male voices in the open air under the long guns, brought prickles to Victor Henry's spine131 and tears to his eyes. Yet this exalting132 service made him uneasy, too. Here they were, men of the American and the British navies, praying as comrades-in-arms.
But it mens a phony picture. The English were fighting, the Americans were nota The Prime Nunister, with this church parade under the guns, was ingeniously working on the President's feelings. Here was diamond cut diamond, will against will! Churchill was using everything he could, including Roosevelt's supposed religious tendency, to move him. If Franklin Roosevelt could come away from this experience without giving a promise to declare war on Germany, or at least to lay down an ultimatum133 to japan, he was a hard man; and the weeping old fat politician beside him was playing a damned hard game himself, for which Victor Henry admired him. The British chaplain, his white and crimson134 vestments -flapping in the wind, his thick gray hair blowing wildly, read the closing Royal Navy prayer: Preserve us from the dangers of the sea, and from the lence of the enemy; that we may be a security for such as pass upon the sea upon their laujul occasions... and that we may return in safety to enjoy the blessings135 of the land, with the fruits of our labors136. . . and to praise and glorify137 Thy Holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord..." A few British sailors cautiously moved out of ranks. One, then another, sneaked138 cameras from their blouses. When nobody stopped them, and the two leaders smiled and waved, a rush began. Cameras appeared by the dozens. The sailors swarmed139 into a laughing, cheering ring around the two men. Pug Henry, watching this unwonted disorder140 on a warship141 with mixed feelings of amusement and outrage142, felt a touch on his elbow. It was Lord Burne-Wilke. 'Hello there, my dear fellow. A word with you?" Either the British worried less about fire than the Americans, or they had found a good way to fake wood panels. Burne-Wilkes cabin had the dark, warm, comfortable look of a library den2. "I say, Henry, what is your position on shipboard drinking? I have a fair bottle of sherry here." "I'm for it." "Good. You're dry as a bone in your service, aren't you? Yet last night the President served us an excellent wine." "The President is the source of all Navy regulations, sir, and can tailor them to his desires." "Ah? Jolly convenient." Burne-Wilke lit a cigar, and they both sipped143 wine. "I suppose you know that this ship crossed the ocean without escort," the air commodore resumed. "Our first night out of England, we ran into a whole gale144. Our destroyers couldn't maintain speed, so we zigzagged145 on alone." "Sir, I was appalled146 to hear about it." "Really? Rather sporting of the British Prime Minister, don't you think, to give the Hun a fair shot at him on the open sea? Three thousand mileswithout air cover or surface escort, straight through the entire submarine fleet?" "You had your good angels escorting you. That's all I can say." "Oh, well, at any rate here we are. But it might be prudent147 not to overwork those good angels, what? Don't you agree? On our way back, every U-boat in the Atlantic will certainly be on battle alert. We shall have to run the gamut148." Burne-Wilke paused, studying the ash on his cigar. 'We're stretched thin for escorts, you know. We've rounded up four destroyers. Admiral Pound would be happier with six." Victor Henry quickly said, 'I'll talk to Admiral King." "You understand that this cannot be a request from us. The Prime Minister would be downright annoyed. He's hoping we'll meet the Tirpitz and get into a running gun fight." "Let me start on this now, sir." Pug drank up his sherry, and rose to his feet. "Oh? Would you?" Burne-Wilke opened the cabin door. "Thanks awfully149." On the afterdeck, the photographing was still going on. Officers with cameras were now shouldering sailors aside, as the two politicians cheerfully chatted. Behind them stood their glum150 chiefs of staff and civilian52 advisers. Hopkins, squinting151 out at the sunny water, wore a pained expression. The military men were talking together, except for Admiral King, who stood woodenly apart, his long nose pointing seaward, his face consealed in disapproval152. Pug walked up to him, saluted, and in the fewest possible words recounted his talk with Burne-Wilke. The lines along King's lean jaws'deepened. He nodded twice and strolled away, without a word. He did not go anywhere. It was just a gesture of dismissal, and a convincing one. Amid much willing and dining, the conference went on for two more days. One night Churchill took the floor in the Augusta wardroom after dinner, and delivered a rolling, rich, apocalyptic154 word picture of how the war would go. Blockade, ever-growing air bombardment, and subversion155 would in time weaken the grip of Nazi claws on Europe. Russia and England would 'close a ring' and slowly, inexorably tighten156 it. If the United States became a full-fledged ally, it would all go much faster, of course. No big invasion or long land campaign would be needed in the west. Landings of a few armored columns in the occupied countries would bring mass uprisings. Hitler's black empire would suddenly collapse108 in rubble157, blood, and flame. Franklin Roosevelt listened with bright-eyed smiling attention, saying nothing, and applauding heartily158 with the rest. On the last day of the conference, just before lunch, Admiral King sent for Pug. He mid153 the admiral in undershirt and trousers in his cabin, drying face and ears with a towel. "Task Unit 26 point 3 point i, consisting of two destroyers, the Mayrant and the Rhind, has been formed," King said without a greeting. "It will escort the Prince of Wales to Iceland. You will embark159 in the Prince of Wales as liaison160 officer, disembark in Iceland, and return with our task unit."'Aye aye, sir." 'You'll have no written orders. But we're not in the kind of spot we were in last time. In confidence, we'll soon be convoying all ships to Iceland. Maybe by next week. Hell, our own marines are occupying the place now. The President's even sending a young officer along as a naval aide to Churchill while he tours our Iceland base. Ensign Franklin D. Roosevelt, junior." King spoke the name with an expressionless face. "Yes, sir." Now, Henry, how are you at languages?" "It's a long time since I tried a new one, Admiral." "Well, a military supply missim will go to the Soviet union in September. If Russia's still in the war by then, that is. Mr. Hopkins has brought up your name. He appears impressed, and the President too, by your expertise162 on landing craft and so forth. Now your service record has been checked, and it seems you claim a 'poor to fair' knowledge of Russian. Hey? How is that? That's very unusual." Admiral, I put that down when I entered the Academy in 1911. It was true then. I don't remember ten words now." Henry explained the circumstances that had given him Russian-speaking chums in his Sonoma County boyhood. 'I see. Well, it's there on the record. Upon returning from Iceland you will be detached from War Plans to prepare yourself, with an intensive refresher course in Russian, for a possible trip to the Soviet union on special detached duty. You'll have interpreters. But with even a smattering, your intelligence value will be greater." 'Aye aye, sir." King put on his uniform jacket, stared at Victor Henry, and for the first time that Henry could recall, favored him with a smile. "On the record, incidentally, I see you used to be a fair gunnery officer, too." "My one hope is to get back to that." "Have you heard that extension of the draft passed the House of Representatives an hour ago?" "It did? Thank God." "By one vote." "What! One vote, sir?" "One vote." "Whew! That's not going to encourage the British, Admiral." "No, nor the President, but it's how the American people feel right now. It may be suicidal, but there it is. Our job is to keep going anyway.
Incidentally, Henry, I'll soon be needing an operations officer on my staff. After your Russian errand, if it comes off, that's an assignment you may get." Victor Henry kept his face rigid163. "It would be an honor, Admiral." "I thought you might like it. I believe you'll measure up," King said, with an awkward trace of warmth. Compared to a battleship command, it was a crushing prospect164. Desperation forced Pug to say, "President Roosevelt may have other ideas. I just never know." "I mentioned this to the President. He said it sounded like the perfect spot for you." A verse from Psalms165 knifed into Pug's mind: 'Put not your trust in princes." "Thank you, Admiral.Within the hour, as Victor Henry was packing, a summons came from the President. The interview this time took but a minute or two. Roosevelt appeared fatigued166 and preoccupied167, making quick pencilled notes on one document after another at the baize-covered table. Harry Hopkins was in the room, and beside him a tall handsome ensign, with a strong resemblance to the Assistant Secretary who in 1917 had bounded around the destroyer Davey-The President introduced Franklin D. Roosevelt, junior,"to Pug, saying "You gentlemen will be travelling together. You should know each other." As the ensign shook hands, the President gave Captain Henry a poignant168 man-to-man glance, as much as to say "Keep an eye on him, and talk to him This human touch half dissolved Victor Henry's hard knot of mistrust for the President. Perhaps Roosevelt had turned off King with a pleasantry and meant to still give him the battleship. The President's bland169 manner in dismissing him was, as always, unfathomable. To brass band anthems170 and booming gun salutes171, in a brisk breeze smelling of green hills and gunpowder172, the Prince of Wales left Argentia Bay. The great conference was over. In the wardroom of the Prince of Wales, Victor Henry could sense the subtle gloom hanging over the ship. What the conference had accomplished173 to increase help fOr England remained undisclosed; and in itself this clearly struck the battleship's officers as a bad sign. These men, veterans of two combat years, of air attacks and gun fights, had a subdued174 dismal175 air, despite the grandeur176 of their ship and the stuffy177 luxury of their wardroom. The predicament of England seemed soaked in their bones. They could not believe that Winston Churchill had risked the best ship in their strained navy, and his own life, only to return empty-handed. That wasn't Winnie's style. But vague hope, rather than real confidence, was the note in their conversation. Sitting in the lounge over a glass of port after dinner, Pug felt quite out of things, despite their politeness to him. It struck him that his presence embarrassed them. He went to bed early. Next day he toured the Prince of Wales from flying bridge to engine rooms, notingcontrasts with American ships, above all the slovenly178, overburdened, tense crew, so different from the scrubbed happy-go-lucky Augusta sailors. Major-General Tillet came up to him after dinner that evening, and laid a lean hand on his shoulder. "like to have a look at the submarine sightings chart, Henry? The Prime Minister thought you might. Quite a reception committee gathering179 out there." Pug had seen the forbidding old military historian here and there at the conference. Two nights ago, at a wardroom party for the American visitors, some junior British officers had started what they called a "rag, marching in dressed in kilts or colored towels, bizarre wigs180, and not much else; skirting bagpipes181, setting off firecrackers, and goose-stepping over chairs and tables, After a while Major-General Tillet had stood up unsmiling-Pug thought, to put a stop to the horseplay-and had broken into a long, wild jig182 on a table, as the bagpipers marched around him and the whole mess applauded. Now he was as stiff as ever. Red secrecy warnings blazed on the steel door that Tillet opened. Dressed in a one-piece garment like a mechanic's coveralls, stooped and heavy-eyed, Churchill pondered a map of the Russian front all across one bulkhead. Opposite hung a chart of the Atlantic. Young officers worked over dispatches at a table in the middle of the room, in air thick with tobacco smoke. "There," said the Prime Nbnister to Tillet and Pug Henry, gesturing at the map of the Soviet union with his cigar, 'there is an awful unfolding picture." The crimson line of the front east of Smolensk showed two fresh bulges183 toward Moscow. Churchill coughed, and glanced at Henry. 'Your President warned Stalin. I warned him even more explicitly184, basing myself on very exact intelligence. Surely no government ever had less excuse to be surprised. In an evil hour, the heroic, unfortunate Russian people were led by a pack of outwitted bungling185 scoundrels." The Prime Minister turned and walked to the other bulkhead, with the tottering186 step Victor Henry had observed in his London office. At Argentia, Churchill had appeared strong, ruddy, springy, and altogether ten years YOLinger. Now his cheeks were ashy, with red patches. "Hullo- Don't we have a development here?" Little black coffin-shaped markers dotted the wide blue spaces, and an oit-icer was putting up several more, in a cluster close to the battleship's projected course. Farther on stood large clusters of red pins, with a few blue pins. "This new U-boat group was sighted by an American patrol plane at twilight187, sir," said the officer. "Ah, yes. So Admiral Pound advised me. I suppose we are evading188?"'We have altered course to north, sir." "Convoy161 H-67 is almost home, I see." "We will be pulling those pins tonight, Mr. Prime Minister." "That will be happy news." Churchill harshly coughed, puffing189 at his cigar, and said to Pug Henry, "Well. We may have some sport for you Yet. It won't be as lively as a bomber190 ride over Berlin. Eh? Did you enjoy that, Captain?" "It was a rare privilege, Mr. Prime Minister." "Any time. Any time at all." "Too much honor, sir. Once was plenty." Churchill uttered a hoarse191 chuckle192. "I daresay. What is the film tonight, General Tillet?" "Prime Minister, I believe it is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy193, in Saps at Sea." , "Saps at Sea, eh? Not inappropriate! The surgeon-general has ordered me to remain in bed. He has also ordered me not to smoke. I shall attend Saps at Sea, and bring my cigars." Pug Henry's enjoyment194 of Saps at Sea was shadowed by an awareness195 that at any moment the battleship might into a U-boat pack. German skippers were adept196 at sneaking197 past destroyer screens. B(run) ut the film spun198 to the end uninterrupted. "A gay but inconsequent entertainment," the Prime Minister remarked in a heavy, rheumy voice, as he plodded199 out. Clement200 Attlee's broadcast the next day packed the wardroom. Every officer not on watch, and all staff officers and war planners, gathered in the wardroom around one singularly ancient, crack-voiced radio. The battleship" plowing201 through a wild storm, rolled and pitched with slow long groans202. For the American guest, it was a bad half hour. He saw perplexed203 looks, lengthening204 faces, and headshakes, as Attlee read off the "Atlantic Charter." The high-flown language bespoke205 not a shred206 of increased American commitment. Abuse of Nazi tyranny, praise of "four freedoms," dedication207 to a future of world peace and brotherhood208, yes; more combat help for the British, Some sentences about free trade and independence for all peoples That meant the end of the British Empire, if they meant anything. Franklin Roosevelt was indeed a tough customer, thought Captain Henry, not especially surprised. "Umph!" grunted209 Major-General Tillet in the silence after the radio was shut off. "I'd venture there was more to it than that. How about it, Henry?" All eyes turned on the American. Pug saw no virtue210 in equivocating211. "No, sir, I'd guess that was it." "Your President has now pledged in a joint communique to destroy Nazi tyranny," Tillet said. "Doesn't that mean you're coming in, one way or another?" "It means Lend-Lease," Pug said.
Questions shot at him from all sides. "You're not going to stand with us against japan?" "Not now." "But isn't the Pacific your fight, pure and simple?" "The President won't give a war warning to japan. He can't, without Congress behind him." "What's the matter with your Congress?" "That's a good question, but day before yesterday it came within one vote of practically dissolving the United States Army." "Don't the congressmen know what's happening in the world?" "They vote their political hunches212 to protect their political hides." "Then what's the matter with your people?" "Our people are about where yours were at the time of the Munich pact." That caused a silence. Tillet said, 'We're paying the price." "We'll have to pay the price." "We had Chamberlain then for a leader, sir," said a fresh-faced lieutenant213. "You have Roosevelt." "The American people don't want to fight Hitler, gentlemen," said Pug. "It's that simple, and Roosevelt can't help that. They don't want to fight anybody. Life is pleasant. The war's a ball game they can watch. You're the home team, because you talk our language. Hence Lend-Lease, and this Atlantic Charter. Lend-Lease is no sweat, it just means more jobs and money for everybody." An unusually steep roll brought a crash of crockery in the galley214. The crossfire215 stopped. Victor Henry went to his cabin. Before disembarking in Iceland, he did not talk much more to the British officers. Atlantic Charter, like the elephant, resembled a tree, a snake, a Twall, or a rope, depending on where the blind took hold of it. Axis216 propaganda jeered217 at its gassy rhetoric218 about freedom, cited enslaved India and Malaya, noted the cowardice219 of the degenerate220 Americans in evading any combat commitment, and concluded that it was all a big empty bluff221, tricked out with the usual pious222 Anglo-Saxon hypocrisy223, to cover impotent hatred224 of the triumphant225 New World Order, which a thousand Atlantic Charters could no longer roll back.
In the United States, a howl went up that Roosevelt had secretly committed the country to go to war on England's side. A cheer went up-not nearly so loud-for the most glorious document in man's struggle toward the light since the Magna Carta. British newspapers implied that much more than this fine charter had been wrought226 at Argentia Bay; but for the moment the rest had to be hushed up'. The Russians hailed the meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill on a triumph for peace-loving battleship at sea as a urn14 all peoples everywhere; hinting that, as was well known, a second front in Europe now was crucial, and the Atlantic Charter, failing to mention a plan for this, was somewhat disappointing. No reaction was stronger or blinder than the one that swept the immured227 Jews in Minsk. The Germans had confiscated228 their radios. The penalty for possessing one was death. A sixteen-year-old boy had heard the Russian broadcast imperfectly on a tiny receiving set rigged in his attic229. He had joyously230 spread the story that Roosevelt had met Churchill, and that the United States was declaring war on Germany! The effect on the ghetto231 of this lie was so wonderful, so life-giving, that one may wonder whether falsehood may not sometimes be a necessary anodyne232 for souls in torment233. The spirit of the Minsk Jews had recently been shattered. They had resigned themselves, with the coming of the Germans, to be herded234 into a few square blocks, to be forced to register for work, to be arrested and maltreated, to endure hooligan raids and perhaps even shootings. This ia,as a pogrom time, German pogroms could be expected to be very bad. But jewry survived pogroms. Then one night gray trucks had swarmed into the ghetto, and squads235 of Germans in unfamiliar236 dark uniforms had cleared out the dwellers237 along two main streets, house by house, loading the people into the vans -for resettlement, they announced. Some of the Germans were brutal238, some polite, as they pushed and urged the people into the trucks. In other streets, behind barred doors, other Jews wondered and shivered. 'what had happened afterward-according to reports brought by parti. sans who haunted the woods-was so hideous239 and unbelievable that the Minsk Jews were still trying numbly240 to come to grips with it. The gray vans had driven five miles away, to the woods outside a village. There in a moonlit ravine the Germans had ordered the people out of the trucks, had lined them up in groups, and had shot every last one-including the babies and the old people-and then had thrown them in a big hole already dug, and shovelled241 them over with sand. Peasants who had dug the huge sandy hole had seen this horror with their own eyes; so the partisan242 report went. The Germans had rounded them up for the job, then had ordered them to go home, and not to linger or to talk about the excavation243, on pain of being shot. A few had sneaked back through the trees, all the same, to see what the Germans were up to; and they had recounted to the partisans244 the massacre245 of the "Zhids" from the gray trucks. To the Jews trapped in Minsk, three hundred miles behind the German armies approachingMoscow, this story was an unimaginable shock. The Germans were already shooting people for small offenses246, after swift crude trials. Bloated smelly bodies of such victims, and of captured partisans, bung in the public squares. Such things could be expected in wartime. But the sudden murder, evidently at random, of all the people who lived in two long streets-children, women, old people, everybody-exceeded their deepest fears of what even Germans could do. Either the story was a hysterical247 exaggeration, or if it were true-and the reports as they trickled248 in began to seem overwhelming-then the Germans were far worse than the most frightful249 rumors251 had ever pictured them. Yet next day Minsk looked much the same, the sunflowers bloomed, the sun shone in a blue sky. Some buildings were ruined by bombs or fire, but most stood as before; German soldiers cruised the streets, already a common sight in their gray trucks and tanks marked with swastikas. The soldiers themselves looked entirely252 ordinary and human, lounging with their guns and squinting in the sunshine. Some even made jokes with passersby253. Russians still walked everywhere, old neighbors of the Jews, and the same bells rang at the same hours. These streets were the scenes of the Jews' lives, as familiar as faces at home. Only now all the houses on two streets stood quiet and empty. Into this stunned254 moment, the news broke that Roosevelt and Churchill had met at sea and that America was entering the war. The word flew from house to house. People cried, laughed, caught up their children and danced them on their shoulders, kissed each other, and found wine or vodka to drink to President Roosevelt. One fact was graven in Europe's memory: last time, the coming of the Americans had won the war. Happy arguments broke out. Would it take three months? Six months? However long it might take, there would be no more insane occurrences like the emptying of those two streets. The Germans would not dare now! The Germans were bad when they were on top, but how humble255 they could be when things turned around! They were all cowards. Now they would probably start being nice to the Jews, to avoid punishment by the Americans. Berel Jastrow did not try to contradict the rumor250, though he knew that it was untrue. At the bakery, he still kept his shortwave radio concealed257. His papers allowed him to pass the ghetto boundaries, for the Germans needed bread and the Minsk bakers258 were fighting hundreds of miles away. At the underground meeting of Jewish leaders that night, in the boiler259 room of the hospital, Berel did report the accurate broadcast he had heard from Sweden. But he was a foreigner, and he was telling the committee what it did not want to hear. Somebody cut him short with the observation that he had probably been listening to the German -controlled Norwegian radio; and the excited planning continued for the armed uprising that would take place in Minsk, in cooperation with the partisans, as soon as the Americans landed in France. A few days later Jastrow and his son, with the wife and baby, disappeared. They went silently in the night, asking nobody in the ghetto for perinion or help, or for passwords to contact the partisans in the woods. The Jewish Board had some trouble with the Gestapo about thevanished Polish baker256. But they pleaded that the Jastrows were refugees, for whom they couldn't be responsible. The Germans had themselves issued Jastrow his special papers. The three Polish Jews with their infant did not come back to Minsk. The ghetto people assumed they had been shot right away by the Wehrmacht forest patrols, as most Jews were who tried to slip from the town without partisan guidance. It was the German custom to throw fresh bodies from the forest into Jubilee260 Square, as a warning to the other Jews. But nobody saw, in these gruesome stiff piles of dead unburied friends, the bodies of the Jastrows. That was the one reason for believing the Jastrows might still be alive somewhere. in Rome the Germans were conducting themselves very well, at least within the purview261 of Natalie and her uncle. A certain arrogance262 toward the Italians had perhaps intensified263 with all the conquests, but that had always been the German demeanor264. Ghastly rumor of Nazi treatment of Jews had been flying around Europe for years. To these were, now added stories of the vilest265 atrocities266 against the captured hordes267 of Slav soldiers. Yet when Aaron Jastrow and his heavily pregnant niece dined in the hotel, or at some fine Roman restaurant, there would very likely be Germans at table on either side of them. Enough wine might spark a bit of Teutonic boisterousness268; but to ascribe a capacity for mass murder to then well-dressed, careful-mannered, good-looking people-so very much like Americans in some ways-passed all belief. Jastrow at last eager to go home. He had finished the first draft of his book on Constantine;heyear(was) ned to show it to his publisher, and then finish up the revisions in the Harvard Library's Byzantine section. The Vatican Library was better, of course, and he had made charming friends there. But as shortages multiplied, Rome was getting drearier269. Hitler's triumphs in the Soviet union were sending earthquake tremors270 through Italy and sinking the Italians in gloom. There was no real gladness even in the Fascist271 press, but rather some traces of alarm at these giant strides of the Fuhrer over the last unsubdued reaches of Europe. At any price, even in the best restaurants, Roman food was bad now, and getting worse. The heavy chalky bread was quite inedible272; the new brown spaghetti tasted rather like mud; each month the cheese grew more rubbery; the cooking and salad oils left a loathsome273 aftertaste; and bottle of decent table wine hard to come by. Natalie obtained proper milk occasi(a) onallyattheembassy;Italianexpec(was) tant mothers had to drink the same blue slimy fluid that sad shrugging waiters served with the fake coffee. So Dr. Jastrow was ready to go; but he was not scared. He had read so much history that the events of the hour seemed a banal274 repetition of old games. He had delayed and delayed leaving Italy, almost welcoming the difficulties with his papers, because in his heart he had thought the war was going to end soon. Even if the villain275 with the mustache (as he loved to call Hitler) won, it might not matter so much, providing the Nazis276 did not march into Italy.
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swirls
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civilians
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prosaic
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camouflage
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espying
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squeal
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