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Hello and welcome to Empire with me Anita Arunton.

And me, William Durimple.

So day one of the Yalta conference, it's tetchy, it's tense.

They've all sort of stated their positions of what they want to get out of it.

Day two, they're going to have to start negotiating how it's all going to work.

It starts the day, grimly in the American space at the Lovadia Palace,

because Anna's really worried about her father's health. So right from the get-go,

everybody's smoking like a chimney around the table and he's already got a weak chest and is not feeling well. And his coughing is kind of out of control. And his cardiologist has told Anna that he

is in a really precarious situation. You know, there's talk of hypertension,

which leaves him tired and tetchy, makes it difficult for him to concentrate. And when he's

being pushed around in his wheelchair, every jostle and jolt on the sort of war torn tarmac from

the landing strip to the actual venue is just making him feel worse and worse.

Anna writes to her husband about her dad saying his ticker situation is far more serious than I ever knew and it's truly worrisome.

There's not a hell of a lot anyone can do.

And knowing how sensitive the information could be if it gets out to the American public, she says,

better tear off and destroy this paragraph. Obviously, he didn't. That's spies.

So Roosevelt's, though, determined to carry on. It's going to be this day that he is going

to start making his proposals for the United Nations and how it would work. And, you know,

they've discussed it already in Tehran. They just, he just needs to get them over the line. The Soviets over the line. And then that will be

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