rian masses of the world." Stalin was spared this bit of British drollery when he took leave to use the lavatory. On the way there his bodyguards took a wrong turn into the cavernous building and lost him for a few moments. When he arrived back at the ballroom he was bewildered as to where they were. They arrived back a few minutes after he did, and he gave them a good tongue-lashing for their incompetence. He then informed the Prime Minister and I that he had to leave at 10:30 to take up military duties, which would keep him for the remainder of the night. Churchill and I thought this rather rude and insulting, so, of course, I told him certainly not. He finally left, though, at 11:10 and took his staff with him back to Koreir Villa, where he was staying. The estate's former owner was Prince Yusupoff, the man generally given credit for the murder of Rasputin. Churchill and I stayed at the banquet until God-knows-when, when we finally decided, drunk and in a daze, to reconcile tomorrow for the second day of the conference, and to bid each other farewell. As soon as Churchill departed I wheeled myself upstairs to bed, where I fell asleep immediately. I awoke less than an hour ago and decided to write, because I know I'm going to be too busy for the remainder of the day to write at all. I'll tell you about today's occurrences tomorrow. Franklin Delano Roosevelt February 5th, 1945Dear Diary,I am now in my quarters, ready to go to sleep. It is late, and I'm quite tired. I remarked this morning that I would not have anymore time to write today. I was wrong. So, before I go to bed I'll share a bit about today's session. I opened the session today by stating that one of my first priorities for the discussion was that of occupying Germany. I decided to take the liberty of bringing this up because the French wanted to have a zone of occupation, and occupation involves control machinery. At this point the Marshal spoke up and said...
