the years of training.
Yes, in 20 minutes he’ll wake up and
go to Berlin to continue his spy job.
End of part 8
Translated by Fooper01. Enjoy.
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SEVENTEEN MOMENTS OF SPRING
Part 9.
Bern. Switzerland
Life here in Switzerland is
so much different then in
many other countries I have been to.
The local people here just enjoy life.
They have a simple life style though.
They are so lucky with what they have
here that they don’t even understand it.
Most of them don’t have a faintest idea
how lucky and fortunate they are here.
They live, work, visit brothels, read
newspapers, criticize their parliament.
I am not afraid to seem as a cynic.
To tell the truth, I am a dirty cynic.
I ask you to be frank, but that's
impossible without a cynicism.
Frankness is the highest, reasonable,
goal-directed substance of cynicism.
My heart is bleeding listening to your
stupid nonsense here, because
in Germany women and children
perish under the bombs every second.
It's OK to conduct illogical and stupid
conversations in the days of peace,
but in the days of a terrible war,
this is really a waste of time.
And again I will not agree with you.
Each day of peace is fraught with
war and vice versa,
the terrible minutes of war testify
about the approaching days of peace.
We live in the strange parabola
of the ever changing human existence
in all its strange forms.
And even diplomacy attracts me
by interesting concept of
mathematical positions,
if we look at it from a
specific long distance.
I am up for a productive conversation,
and not for a discussion about nothing.
Some special people assured me
about the fact that you may have
means to, possibilly, connecting me
with other special powerful people,
on whom depend the fates of millions
of common men in Germany.
If we are succeeded in establishing the
nearer noble peace by only a single day,
it will be recognized as an achievement
in the future by all Germans and not only.
- I'm not ready to answer all questions
- I don't have too many questions for you.
I would cease to believe you, if
you agree to answer all my questions.
That is reasonable.
- I am not a diplomat. I am a priest.
- I know you very well.
Whom do you represent in Germany?
I first must hear your guaranties
about confidentiality because
I will speak about the people,
who still remained under Hitler.
And they will end up dead right away,
if only the Gestapo learns their names.
You have nothing to be afraid of.
You are in the neutral country now.
Do you really believe that there
are no Gestapo agents here?
All right. Let's get started.
- I am not an American or an Englishman.
- I understood that from the beginning.
- Excuse me. What did you say?
- I said that I knew that right away.
Your pronunciation tells me that
you are not Englishman or American.
- Are you an Italian, aren't you?
- Yes, I was born and grew up in Italy.
But I am the US citizen therefore,
you can be as frank with me
as you were with those gentlemen,
who organized this very meeting.
People, who sent me here, believe,
and I do share their point of view,
that capitulation of all German
armies and all of the SS troops,
will save millions of human lives.
Those people would want to know, with
whom of the representatives of the allies
we must establish the contact?
Are you talking about the simultaneous
capitulation of all armies of the Reich?
Do you want to propose any other way?
This our conversation occurs in a
strange talking manner.
Germans are more interested in such
negotiations now than us, the allies.
Therefore, we, the allies, will tell you
our condition and you will listen to us!
For us to trust your "friends"
and start talking to them,
we must know, as taught by ancient,
who, when, how much and how many,
and with whose aid?
Otherwise we you will consider you just
another agent of the Gestapo.
Or a person, without any real power
and