FDR, Churchill, and Us

摘要

The light was fading. late on the afternoon of Sunday, February 4,1945) in the Crimean coastal town of Yalta, the three most powerful men in the world―Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin―were meeting in a former summer house of the Russian Czars. There were huge questions to be decided about World War II's final act and its aftermath-questions which required American leadership―but Churchill's circle was horrified at the 63-year-old Roosevelt's condition. "He is very thin & his face is drawn & deeply lined & he looks weary all the time and as if he might be in bad pain," British Air Chief Marshal Charles Portal wrote home to Pamela Churchill, then the prime minister's daughter-in-law. "Also, his brain is obviously not what it was. Altogether he looks as if Tru-manmightbeinforajobofwork..."