“What matters more, he realizes that the Russians see this too. It would be useless to try to take a firm line with Stalin. He will be able to do as he pleases. Will he become a menace to the free world, another Hitler? The P.M. is appalled by his own impotence.”

Excerpt From
Hitler and Stalin
Laurence Rees

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“Moran believed he knew why Churchill felt this way. ‘Until he came here, the P.M. could not bring himself to believe that, face to face with Stalin, the democracies would take different courses. Now he sees he cannot rely on the President’s [Roosevelt] support.

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Different take on the chummy relationship between Churchill & Roosevelt..
“[..], Churchill was sufficiently depressed during the [Tehran November 1943] conference to have a late-night vision of devastation. ‘I believe man might destroy man and wipe out civilization,’ he told Lord Moran, his doctor. ‘Europe would be desolate and I may be held responsible.’

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