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- Title
Masters & Commanders.
- Authors
Roberts, Andrew
- Abstract
On Tuesday May 26th, 1942, General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), attended a luncheon at the Soviet Embassy in London to celebrate the signing that day of an Anglo-Soviet twenty-year mutual assistance agreement, six months after Hitler's invasion of Russia. It was a grand affair, attended by the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, the Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and all the Chiefs of Staff, as well as the deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee and several other members of the War Cabinet. 'Many toasts and many speeches', recorded Brooke in his diary afterwards. 'Somehow the whole affair gave me the creeps and made me feel that humanity has still many centuries to live through before universal peace can be found.'
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; WORLD War II; CHURCHILL, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965; MILITARY policy; BRITISH politics &; government, 1936-1945; BRITISH military; BRITISH foreign relations; BRITISH diplomatic &; consular service
- Publication
History Today, 2008, Vol 58, Issue 10, p41
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article