Eventhe steady thunder of bomber planes on the way to Germany overhead failed towake him, but before dawn he had a fight with himself in his sleep. I watched from my ringside seat: himself seemed about to win but just in timehe knocked himself out. I counted tenbut he lay stiff and silent, not even snoring now; and in the morning we wereroused by the ringing telephone. It wasmy girlfriend to say that Germany had surrendered, which places this meeting inearly May 1945.
