“chevalier, chevalier everything is fine, there is a lot of blood, like in a slaughterhouse, my peoplecompany you? believe me it's simply indecent. friedrich's recommendation clearly states, together with his daughter. the king understands that if the whole family is traveling, then this is an official visit, which is suspicious, but if two people are traveling, yes. and we, well, understand, dear, it’s dangerous, there are so many mandibles dangling along the roads, and you have so much money, if you don’t want to take me, then why not use the help of our prisoners, these russian officers, shank, we... secretly under other people's names, why attract attention to ourselves, we don't need an escort, but have mercy, what will they say in st. petersburg about their captivity, who will be interested in them, the servants’ mistake, letters, a year of bad blood, the boys could get too drunk, lose at cards, then they will believe me, not them, god forbid! but hold them for three days, better yet five, yes, five is enough for me, ike, say goodbye to your father, it’s time for your basket, my

the fact that, during the war, there had been a conversation at his home in berkeley with haakon chevalierworking on to soviet officials. now, oppenheimer had dismissed it at the time, but he had not reported the incident. he knew he was already on thin ice with security people, that he was suspected because of his communist ties. so he was trying to keep himsel out of hot water. the problem was that, in subsequent conversations with los alamos security people he had told very evasive, vague accounts of this conversation, one after another. and when they confronted oppenheimer with these evasive versions, they asked him, "why did you do this? why wouldn't you have been forthright?" he said, "i was an idiot." and in a sense, he sealed his own fate then. rhodes: he fell apart. he tried to testify, but he really fell apart. bird: he's having almost another nervous breakdown, like what he went through as a young man. he's oddly stoic, like he was in the icehouse when he was a young boy being tormented by his fellow summer campers. he's resigned and not really defending himself. one person who