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Edwina Sandys, M.B.E., March 28,
President Traer, Mr. Crosby Kemper, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Standing in the snow in St. Petersburg, Russia, last month, I watched the eternal flame flickering at the tomb of the unknown warrior. Something about the scene — the violet shadows on the snow — made me think of one of my grandfather's paintings — winter scene at Chartwell. I thought about the day siege of Leningrad, and the brave Russians who once again turned back an invader inside their own territory. What if the allies had ignored Russia's pleas for aid? What if the allies had stood by and left Russia to fight it out alone with the Germans? What if is a wonderful game to play with the benefit of hindsight.
If an unaided Russia had been defeated then, think what the world might have looked like today! I am an artist not a historian, but occasionally I look at a map. History is shaped by geography. Picture Hitler's empire stretching from Munich through Vienna, through Moscow all the way across Siberia to Vladivostok — to join up with his allies in Tokyo. A belt of terror encircling the globe. No wonder Churchill and Roosevelt banded together to prevent it.
History is the reason we are gathered here in Fulton, in a Christopher Wren church plucked from a bom
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