Evening star., 1951-10-19
Churchill Met Stain
Privately in Teheran,
His Memoirs Recall
BY The Associated Press

BY The Assoeiatsd Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Winston
Churchill says his relations with
the late President ROOSEVELT
reached the point at Teheran|
that he resorted to a private talk
with Joseph Stain to get across
his ideas on an invasion of France.
Writing in his memoirs. ap-
pearing in Life Magazine, Mr..
Churchill put it this way:
1.-THE fact that the President
was in private contact with Mar
shall Stain and dwelling at the
Soviet embassy, and that he hadl
avoided ever seeing me alone since
we left Cairo. in spite Of our hith-
erto intimate relations and the
way in which our vital affairs were
interviewer, led me to seek a di-|
rect personal interview with Sta
lin.
IT felt that the Russian leader
was not deriving q true impress
sion of the British attitude"
Call Impression False.
Mr.. Churchill said he thought
Stain was getting the impression
that the British wanted to stop
the proposed invasion Of France
across the English Channel "be-
cause they (British) want to in
wade the Balkans instead"
This impression was false, the
former British Prime Minister
said. He said he wasn't lukewarm
about the invasion but II wanted
to get what I needed for the Med
iterranean and at the same time
keep to the date for Overlord"-|
code name for the operation.
Mr.. Churchill said the bottle
neck was landing craft.
He quoted Stain as insisting at
the Tehran conference on deci-
sions on three matters: Date Of
the invasion. a proposed secondary
invasion as a supporting move.
and appointment of commander
in-chief for Overlord.
Mr.. Churchill disclosed that he
left a gay dinner in a huff when
Stain smilingly proposed that
$4,000 German officers and tech
nicians be shot after the war.
'"The British Parliament and
public will never tolerate mass ex-I
ecutions." he replied. But Stain
insisted and President Roosevelt,
in an effort s'to reduce the whole
matter to ridicule," proposed al
compromise of $4,000.
Tells of Elliott's Speech.
Mr.. Churchill wrote: Elliott
Roosevelt rose in his place at the
end of the table and made al
speech, saying how cordially he
agreed with Marshal Stalin's plan
and how, sure he was that the
United States Army would support
It,"
efforts to reach Elliott
Roosevelt for comment on this
were unavailing.)
"At this intrusion" Mr.. Church.
Ill added, II got up and left the
table, walking off into the next
room, which was in semidark-
ness"
But Stain and Russian Foreign
Minister v. M. Molotov quickly
came into the room and said they
were only kidding. Mr.. Churchill
said he still isn't completely con-
vinced there was no serious in
tent"
At one phase Of the meeting, he
wrote. President Roosevelt pro-
posed that the Big Three and
China act as -four policemen"
after the war. However, stain OBJ
jected, saying China wouldn't be
powerful enough and that Euro
pean states would resent her even
If she were.
On the subject Of Germany,
MIR. Churchill said, President
Roosevelt proposed "for discus
sion" a plan through which the
country would be divided into five
parts-a plan Stain approved.
However, the British Prime
Minister said he felt the main
thing was to isolate Russia and
set up a second group to be
treated gently. All three leaders
agreed that they feared the
might of a united Germany" |