FIRESIDE CHAT #3 We Must Plan for the Future

As has been mentioned, Churchill, Stalin, and I have been meeting to discuss what we should do when this conflict ends. My valiant friend, Churchill, does not trust Josef Stalin. He believes he will seize every piece of ground that his victorious Red divisions occupy.

I disagree. I think that Stalin has been a trusted ally. I believe he understands the huge mistake made at Versailles after WWI, and that we MUST respect the sovereignty of individual peoples and their borders. I for one am willing to trust his word, that he will withdraw from occupied territory.

Yes, I AM talking as if the war is over. Leaders MUST see and plan for what is next. Time is short. MY time is short... I feel it in my bones.

One final word. Don't be too hard on Galletas' cries for help. France has been overrun and destroyed in WWII, WWI, the Franco-Prussian Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Hundred Years Wars... you get the point. My wife pointed out to me the other day that most French humor involves death. They think death is funny.

It is how a sane person deals with the insanity that has consumed us. Let us end the killing and sweep the stench of death away for the next 500 years. Green fields of France, blue waters of the Pacific...

It has been an honor,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt