Sean Gabb: The Churchill Memorandum

Pakeshi smiled and patted his bulging waistcoat. Suddenly, he looked at me. He laughed with good-natured humour and put the menu down.

“But did not Mr Powell tell you the full story?” he asked with suppressed mirth. “He was insistent that I should accompany you to Dresden as your personal physician. Though I have no German whatever, he tells me you are fluent.

“And there is, I am told, a most interesting factory outside the main city. The Germans say it is to manufacture synthetic penicillin. The ever-perceptive Major Stanhope assures Mr Powell that it may be to develop a new liquid fuel for rockets.”

I’d scattered cigarettes all over the table before I could bring my hands back under control. Was that a smell of cannabis behind me? I suddenly noticed that the table was set for three….

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The Churchill Memorandum , by Sean Gabb

This first edition published in January 2011

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