To her Close Friends as becky, with the lifestyle she admitted on her ministerial lifestyle. Ava was the widow of the Foreign Office official who in the 1930s applied churchill with Vital Information on german rearmament before his untimely death. Anderson did, however, accept a he continued to advise the government informally on atomic matters. He died age 76 in 1958. So then, shortly before his death, anderson fell to reminiscing about the war with j. Robert oppenheimer. Of hours, the director of the manhattan project, los alamos bomb lab. Anderson, a really sweet guy, oppenheimer recalled, had never, and im still quoting oppenheimer, had never been reconciled to the fact that bores counsel had not been followed by churchill or roosevelt in 1944. Nor anderson might have added, his own counsel. I think however one regards the atomic aspect of sir John Andersons career, and his outlook does now seem idealistic, unrealistic, naive, even. Knowing what we know about stalins nuclear ambiti
Lived in the true spirit of churchill, we would all be in bed at this time of day. Of course, we would have read all of the newspapers and have worked through all of the daily correspondence by this point. I feel many of us are lacking in the amount of domestic and secretarial assistance sir winston had through much of his life so perhaps our failure to emulate his morning routine is pardonable. Im a Senior Research fellow at the Margaret Thatcher center for freedom located in washington, d. C. The title of our panel today im great contemporaries has a truly churchillian ring to it and i am delighted to be joined by three distinguished churchillians who will be speaking on men who played important roles in different ways in churchills life. John anderson, mackenzie king, and lord morris. Is professoraker of modern history at Christchurch University in the united kingdom. Chartsest book churchills evolution as a nuclear statesman and has been described as impressive, gripping reading, a
Norway conducted by norwegians it was obvious to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy soar to say a few words to our friends specifically to the minister counselor for communication and Cultural Affairs and education at the Norwegian Embassy he served in washington for about 10 months and previously in the immediately preceding was in at the Foreign Ministry but also in good diplomatic fashioning countries as well as in the kansas to land and morocco and the entire Region Embassy are good friends who have a number of interesting evens with them were delighted to work with them and have them here so perhaps a few words from our norwegian friends . [applause] good evening. Were glad to work with best buy museum. Thank you for this program to hear about the events to hear about the history of my own country and it does not take a bigger part to reshape the worlds history because that might have been devastating so just a few days ago in norway celebrated the 71st anniversary of the surre
Your welcome, everybody to the International Spy museum. I am mark staudt, former historian of the International Spy museum. The Current Museum historian dr. Vince houghton is away at it down on a secret mission, which perhaps youll hear about in the future. But im always delighted to come back to my old haunts and step in whenever necessary. You have time tonight to what i think is a Wonderful Program that we are putting on in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy because this is the story we are hearing tonight is a better world for us to come is very important and famous and dramatic world were to rate into norway convicted primarily by norwegians. And on this thing to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy. Id like to say a few words by way of introduction to our friends here from the norwegian in this these specifically. Jonage oyslebo is Cultural Affairs and education at the royal Norwegian Embassy. He has been here in washington for about 10 months on this particular tour. He se
Youve come tonight to what i think is going to be a Wonderful Program that we are putting on in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy. Because this is, the story were going to be hearing tonight is about a world war ii, very important and famous and dramatic as you will hear world war ii raid into norway conducted primarily by norwegians. It was an obvious thing to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy. So id just like to say a few words by way of introduction to our friends here from the Norwegian Embassy. Specifically, jon oyslebo whos minister counselor at the royal Norwegian Embassy. Hes been here serving in washington for about ten months on this particular tour. He served here previously a decade or so ago, i believe. His immediately preceding tour was in oslo at the Foreign Ministry where hes been a number of times, but hes also served in good diplomatic fashion in countries as varied as mozambique, poland, switzerland and morocco. Jon and, indeed, the entire Norwegian Embassy