What's Going on in Washington?

Churchill discusses it with Anthony Eden and gives what Churchill's biographer Martin Gilbert says is the most direct instruction he ever gave in the course of the whole of the Second World War. He said, no need to take this to cabinet. Get anything out of the air ministry you can invoke me if necessary. Direct, let's do this, he's effectively saying. So that's a sort of practical objection. It does go over to Washington and there, by the way, has received the report through multiple channels of their own. But it goes through this bureaucratic maze where people say, mmm, this seems more your department than mine. We should all get a response. And it's