Part Two. The Prime Minister Falters
Chapter Seven. Back to No. 10.
October 11, 1951
...He had been impressed by the X-rays; it was a ‘wonderful machine’. Turning to MacKenna, he said:
‘Immediately I had it I felt the benefit; I believe they will cure the bloody itching over my shoulders. I would like another dose today.
( He had ‘had great influence over President Roosevelt until about three months before Yalta; then he ceased to answer my letters.’ )

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5. ‘Terminal’, The Potsdam Conference
...Churchill then asked Stalin why the Soviet Government had given an award to King Michael of Roumania. Because, said Stalin, the King had acted ‘bravely and wisely’ at the time of the coup d’état.
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( Stalin spoke of his experience in Germany in 1907, ‘when two hundred Germans missed a Communist meeting because there was no one to take their railway tickets at the station barrier’. )

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