I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.