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...Molotov's harassed interpreter, Vladimir Nikolayevich Pavlov, is a pallid, thin fellow of 29. Pavlov sometimes translates for Stalin. But he is Molotov's man, accompanies him everywhere. At Yalta his penetrating voice pleased President Roosevelt because it was so easily heard. Pavlov speaks English with a decided British accent, but has an accurate ear for the idiom and nuances of American speech...
...Princess' face was white and tense, her thin hands clutched together. As she talked she tried to smile, but there was desperate urgency in her face. Her husband, even more distraught, muttered hoarsely: "But we had no part in it, no part...
...gingerly as they lit up again, Britons relaxed from their V-2 strain. The stratosphere siege had lasted seven months, and the noiseless rockets had worn Londoners' nerves thin. The V-2s started dropping the day after Prime Minister Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Minister of Works Duncan Sandys, announced that V-1 was licked. Before they stopped coming on March 27, 1,050 rockets had killed 2,754 people, seriously injured 6,523, damaged an untold number of buildings (including a million-dollar cinema at Marble Arch). Last week Churchill was asked in Parliament...
Displaying a small white flag with a red cross on it, five men last week took a rowboat across the Elbe River to U.S. positions at Magdeburg. Out onto the shore stepped a jug-eared, thin-faced man in a carefully tailored Wehrmacht officer's uniform. He identified himself as Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, "Mouthpiece of the Wehrmacht"-the highest ranking, most objective and (outside Germany) most seriously regarded war commentator on the German radio...
...Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff these were critical hours. With luck he might still get his troops safely across the Po, but German luck was wearing thin...