Battle of the Coral Sea, advanced in the war industry, Stalin asking for a Second Front, De Gaulle is confirmed, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek speaking in the Capitol, and so on and so forth until Roosevelt’s death and Truman entering the White House. Churchill visits Washington, MacArthur resists in the Philippines, President Roosevelt gives his “chat by the chimney”. The collection contains very much everything, especially from the day at the end of 1941 in which Washington waged war against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbour. The criteria are radically undetermined, as he focuses on the influence of human beings, their strategies and errors. He manages to integrate confidential information, analyses of great columnists such as Walter Lippmann or the sinister Drew Pearson, technical administration reports, constant contact with high-ranking civil servants and, in general, whoever was somebody in Washington offices. One could say that the collection of articles Washington Dispatches (1981) has an anecdotal value as regards Berlin’s thinking, but it illustrates his relationship with political reality, and accumulated politics eventually becomes history. In 1980, in the prologue to his book Personal impressions Isaiah Berlin highlights the fact that, for his generation –young people in the 1930s- in Europe, with a political climate dominated by Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, and several dictators in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, Chamberlain’s and Daladier’s politics offered no hope whatsoever, and the only ray of light was coming from Roosevelt’s New Deal Among his acquaintances, the great columnist Joe Alsop, the theologist Reinhold Niebuhr. He narrates strikes and racial conflicts. Berlin is constantly lurking, as a journalist, chasing after the most significant data, the most relevant circumstance in such diverse organisations as syndicates, black associations or Jewish institutions. He crosses the gateway to access the unclear present, loaded with current news, sometimes too real. His reports, deeply appreciated by Churchill, are an insightful, detailed and synthesized description of the contemporary American society. Until 1946 he was at the Washington Embassy. The following year, he was transferred to the Foreign Office. He arrived in New York, sent by the Ministry of Information in 1941. The American opinion was favourable to the allies but 80% of them were opposed to waging war, until the attack on Pearl Harbour. This was, after all, the Third Reich that would last for a thousand years. This impersonal interpretation of historical change gives the ultimate responsibility of what happens to entities or superpersonal, transpersonal forces, whose evolution is considered unprecedented in human history. In there, we find his denial of historic inevitability. His was a collaboration in the British campaign for the United States to abandon neutrality and wage war. This is rather closest to journalism that Berlin would experience. The compilation of those reports such as Washington Dispatches does not belong to the thinking corpus of Isaiah Berlin. Later on, Churchill commented on that: “This man’s speech is by far not as good as his writing”. Churchill asked him about his most recent decisive operation: “White Christmas”, replied Berlin -Irving. But someone confused him for the great songwriter Irving Berlin and when he went through London, he got invited at Number 10 Downing Street.
Churchill ordered that, as soon as Berlin arrived in London, he were invited for lunch in Downing Street. Berlin worked for the British intelligence in Washington. Later on, he would become one of the most eminent liberal thinkers of the 20 th century. Uring the Second World War, Winston Churchill had heard many good things about Isaiah Berlin.