He Bowed To Their Demand - The Germans were flooding the country with stories that the allied forces were gathering for an attack on the Peninsula, and that if the invasion succeeded a Communist Government under Doctor Negrin, who as they asserted, had recently lunched with ***** Churchill in Downing ***** turned the scales in our favor. When the Council of Ministers resumed the discussion it was clear that events had moved too strongly and swiftly in our favor for any chance of successfully attacking us or holding us to ransom in the *****. Towering Above a sea of boy scouts' hats Lord Louis Mountbatten was besieged by his diminutive Guard of Honor for autographs, at the British Empire Society's reception for him in the Masonic Hall today. March 29, 1950.