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Behind blackout curtains, the lights burned late in a second-floor room of the Kremlin. Often last week, as in other weeks, they burned until four or five in the morning. Joseph Stalin was studying the greatest battle in history. One night the ballet season came to Moscow. A great Moscow crowd applauded the lyricism of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. But this year it was not for Joseph Stalin, who loves the ballet. He was absorbed with the most crucial reflections and decisions of his life. And now with a British mission in Moscow and a U.S. mission...
...morning; Germany had declared war on Russia. President Roosevelt in his second-floor study in the White House faced the strangest and perhaps the most momentous turn of World War II. It was something which he had not dared hope for. And it might turn out to be the luckiest military break for the U.S.-outside of an outright defeat for Germany in battle-that the President could have hoped...
...Congressman Sam Rayburn's insistence, he got out of bed, where he had been nursing a cold, dressed, put on his best face and held a conference with House and Senate leaders in his second-floor study. They had come to discuss with Mr. Roosevelt H.R. 1776, the Lend-Lease Bill (see p. 17). In the comfortable room at the White House, the argument came down to the kind of simple talk any U. S. citizen could understand. Present were Speaker Rayburn, Senators Barkley and George, and Congressmen MacCormack, Bloom and Luther Johnson - and the two Republican leaders: Senator...
Last week preparations for Christmas went on as usual. In the east end of the second-floor corridor stood the small family tree, decorated with ornaments handed down via attic trunk from one Christmas to the next. And, as in the past, the President's plans called for the familiar, pleasant ritual of the season-the wishing of Merry Christmas to the members of his office staff, the scene in which the President and his wife receive the members of the White House staff and their children, the lighting of the Christmas tree outside the White House on Christmas...
...master at saying indefinite things is Mrs. Roosevelt's husband. He was never in better form than last week. For his first press conference after Utilitarian Willkie was nominated, Mr. Roosevelt was 20 minutes late. Said he with a grin: the elevator (to his second-floor quarters) had stopped; somebody had turned the power off; he did hope that there was no connection with what had happened in Philadelphia. Correspondents saw the President glance at his secretary, Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, heard Mr. Roosevelt stage-whisper to a companion: "He is grinning like a Cheshire...