January 1, 1970

He attended several important ‘summits’ in the final year of the war. In October 1944, Churchill visited Moscow for talks with Stalin. He accepted he could do little for Poland, which was already effectively occupied by the Soviet Army, but he secured a ‘percentages agreement’ (Churchill later referred to it as his ‘naughty document’) which divided the Balkans into spheres of influence, giving Britain dominant power in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean (Stalin later honoured the agreement, even when civil war broke out between Communist forces and the provisional government in December 1944).