...how Winston Churchill saved the honor of the Allies at the meeting with Stalin at Teheran:
 
 

'Stalin wanted to throw a psychological scare into the Americans, so he said to Roosevelt in private, "Our greatest need to keep the morale of our fighting men high is rubbers. We just don't have any." And Roosevelt told him grandly, "We'll send you five hundred thousand. What size?" Without blinking, Stalin said, "Sixteen inches long. Our standard size."

 'Roosevelt confided that night to Churchill that Stalin was throwin' darts, but good old Churchill never blinked an eye. "Make 'em up and send 'em. But stamp each one, in English and Russian, Texas medium.'
 
 

 -"SPACE" James Michener