speech, a concert took place. Later that evening, Himmler had his own little party as well. 2 months have passed since the first conversation about physicist Runge. At the party Shtirlitz mentioned to Shelenberg that it’s, probably, unwise that people of Muller work with some arrested nuclear physicist named Runge. I, at least, graduated from a college with math and physics as my majors. I was, honestly, on the brink of physical exhaustion studying physics in college. Mr. Runge has personal connections and contacts over the ocean in the States. It would be more advantageous if we, the intelligence, would work with him. But, in college, you specialized in quantum mechanics, not physics. - Who told you that? Muller? - No. I have my own informants. Shtirlitz tossed up this idea to Shellenberg and then he began telling funny jokes to friends. He intentionally didn’t talk about Runge's matter any more at the party. He knew for sure that Shellenberg, being a very clever manager and a naturally innate, talented intelligence officer, would not allow himself to forget general topics of any conversation. And he would never miss the main moments of any conversation at all. Shtirlitz was well aware that Shellenberg is a serious enemy. In questions of strategy to trick Shellenberg was very difficult. To say it correctly - it was impossible. Working with Shelenberg for years, Shtirliz noted a curious detail about him. Shellenberg at first would not pay any attention to any proposals or ideas. That was actually a "make belief", his secretive professional strategy. But after a little or a long while he would present the idea to others as if it was his own idea and he would make people accept it as such. Naturally, he would present it to his management first to get approved and only then he would present the idea to his subordinates. Yes, he was actually presenting other people's ideas as his own. But he was doing it so very cleverly and artfully, connecting them to the full complex of political and military issues and interests of the Reich, so no one would ever suspect him in the primitive dirty plagiarism. Shtirlitz calculated everything with Shelenberg accurately. A couple weeks passed since that conversation at the banquet about Runge. Shellenberg had a staff meeting about failures of his secret agents in Sweden and Liberia, and about the treason of two agents, who were considered completely reliable. Shellenberg suffered all his failures painfully and he would carry out infinite staff meetings after each of such failures. Today he assembled the analysts of the North European division and he scolded each and one of them with constructive criticism. Shtirlitz knew Shellenberg well but still he could not predict that Shelenberg would bring up Runge's matter and will talk about it soon. And not just “soon”, but today, right after this staff meeting. Shtirlitz, please stay here for a few minutes, will you? Shtirlitz, I have an interesting idea. Please, bring some fresh coffee. Shtirlitz, I want to talk to you. Technical progress determines the future of human history. Especially now, when scientists almost opened the secrets of atomic nucleus. I believe that in the West and in the East the scientists realize that well, but their politicians still can not get a good grasp on the nuclear idea. We will be witnessing soon a complete degradation of the profession of a politician in its special meaning, as we used to know it for centuries. It is very hard to understand the original motives of people, who are in the front lines of science. Impossible to guess for sure how those people would react in the future to political events that could shape the political future of their countries as well as of the entire world. By the way, what was the name of that German physicist you worked with? Shtirlitz realized right away that this was his check ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Степфордские жены на английском - текст Рыжая Соня на английском - текст Последний дюйм на английском - текст Каменный цветок на английском - текст Иван Грозный на английском |