Churchill kept feeding his huge cat,
Nelson, pieces of smoked salmon, which
was our first course. He did it very sur
reptitiously, but finally handsome, white-
t .l-A TUT- nkivViill MiHYht kin, at .'f nnrl
said reproachfully, "Winston, you're
spoiling that cat frightfully!" The Prime
Minister looked as sheepish as a boy caught
with his hand in the apple barrel.
Churchill talked about motion pictures
he had seen. "The film people send me
three or four pictures each week. Last
week they sent a Marx Brothers picture.
I've seen it five times, and each time I
see it I roar with laughter."
Hopkins said that President Roosevelt
was a great movie fan and that he had had
a projector installed in the White House.
Everyone at the table seemed so relaxed
that it was difficult to realize this may
have been Britain's darkest hour.
That afternoon I worked with Hop
kins on his speech. We were just fin
ishing when Mrs. Churchill came into
Hopkins' room. "The Prime Minister and
I hope you can stay for dinner," she said
graciously. "Averell will be driving to Lon
don afterward, and he can drop you off."
The Churchill household observed the
rationing laws meticulously. We had the
same kind of meal that millions of English
families were sitting down to. And again,
there was only incidental mention of the
war. Finally, Mrs. Churchill left us to our
coffee, and now the atmosphere changed.
Churchill talked with Hopkins and Har
riman about problems of getting more
tanks and aircraft to England. He talked
freely I was a friend of Hopkins and
therefore could be trusted not to re
veal anything of significance outside the
room. Churchill passed his famous cigars
cround the table. As he smoked the huge
but mild Cuban exports, he finally talked
of the war in terms of the recent reverses.
uTTTe've hai
VV month
KAD our setbacks this past
grimly. "But I'm not one bit discouraged.
We have a long way to go, but with help
from our friends across the sea," he
nodded to Hopkins and Harriman, "we'll
win out in the end.
"I'm sure the Luftwaffe will continue to
harass London," he continued; even at his
dinner table his voice was the same sonor
ous voice we had heard so often on the
radio. "But every time they come over, our
night fighters take big chunks out of them.
Their bombers have crews of four or five.
Every time we down 20 of their bombers,
it means they have lost nearly 100 trained
men. They can replace planes but not men.
"Max Beaverbrook is turning out Spit
fires fast." (Beaverbrook was then in
charge of producing aircraft) "The bal
ance of air po' t will soon be in our favor.
You notice it has been a long time since
they attempted any day raids." He
chuckled. "They know it is suicide to come
over this island by day.
"Do you want to know something?" his
whole face smiled. "That evil man Hitler
knows that he is beaten. I say this even
now when his submarines are sinking our
vessels in the Atlantic, even now when his
troops seem to have the upper hand in the
desert But we are growing stronger every
day, and he knows it You correspondents,"
he turned to me, "have been writing about
how well England can take it. In a few
months, believe me, you will be writing
if I may use American slang about how
well England can dish it out. We'll be on
Ihe offensive soon, and Hitler knows it."
He lit a fresh cigar and gazed reflec
tively through the cloud of blue-gray
dmoke. He was thinking aloud now, seem
ingly making a pledge to some unseen
power. Then he pointed to the empty chair
at the foot of the table, where Mrs. Church
ill had sat
"Hitler would like to be sitting in that
chair right now," he said solemnly. "He'd
like to be talking to me, asking me if there
wasn't Borne way out for him. I would tell
him that his type of political philosophy
would have to be stamped out and him with
it I would tell him that if my allies agree,
I would be in favor of trying him in an in
ternational court, and if he were found
guilty of being an international criminal,
as I know he would be, I would be in favor
of having him exterminated."
I think we were all hypnotized by this
magnetic, confident figure who thought
only in terms of eventual victory. "Our
President feels exactly as you do, Mr.
Churchill," Hopkins said.
"I know," Churchill chuckled. "I speak
to him two or three times a week by phone.
We both know it will take time and entail
sacrifices, but we are both confident that
we will bring that evil man to his knees."
i S His strong voice vibrated through the
room, I found myself completely cap
tivated. The Germans were threatening
Tobruk, were about to swallow Russia,
and were leveling war factories all over
England. But what of it? Churchill wasn't
worried. His voice and indomitable spirit
filled the room. Suddenly I realized that
there were some 44 million lesser Church
ills in England, and he was voicing their
own tremendous confidence. After months
of hearing nothing but ominous talk about
how England was being weakened, I was
awestruck and I, too, felt confident An
hour listening to Churchill had changed
my thinking completely.
I left with Harriman an hour later.
Churchill walked to the front door with us.
He shook hands and said good-bye. We
climbed into the car. Churchill stood there
in the huge Gothic doorway, and the dim
light inside silhouetted him sturdy, rock
like, immovable. His cigar was stuck in
the comer of his mouth at a jaunty angle.
As we left he grinned and waved.
Now all my doubts were gone. His ab
solute confidence in eventual victory had
rubbed off on me, had completely inspired
me, and now I felt as he did. The next day
I wrote an article and sent it to the maga
zine for which I worked. I called it, "Eng
land Won't Lose."
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